7/13/10 c-blog WE ARE THE BIGGEST MIRACLE,
St. Columban8a, M "Which is your favorite miracle ?...not just to entertain us..to make us believe in God...repent..think of sin, we think of sodom & gomorrah..Jesus is talking to us when he says it will be more tolerable for sodom...the people weren't converting their hearts..all miracles are signs for greater miracles...water & wine..he had water brought to him..healing blind, used mud...why not just snap fingers...he used things..so ...conversion keeping eyes on Jesus..we are the biggest miracle....of conversion..Jesus can't do this miracle without us..turn our heart to him....God comes here to the altar..body blood..convert us"
Isaiah 7:1-9 In the days of Ahaz, king of Judah, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, king of Israel, son of Remaliah went up to attack Jerusalem, but they were not able to conquer it. When word came to the house of David that Aram was encamped in Ephraim, the heart of the king and the heart of the people trembled as the trees of the forest tremble in the wind Then the LORD said to Isaiah: Go out to meet Ahaz, you and your son Shear-jashub at the end of the conduit of the upper pool, on the highway of the fuller's field, and say to him Take care you remain tranquil and do not fear; let not your courage fai before these two stumps of smoldering brands the blazing anger of Rezin and the Arameans, and of the son Remaliah because of the mischief that Aram, Ephraim and the son of Remaliah plots against you, saying,"Let us go up and tear Judah asunder, make it our own b
wn by force, and appoint the son of Tabeel king there." Thus says the LORD: This shall not stand, it shall not be Damascus is the capital of Aram, and Rezin is the head of Damascus; Samaria is the capital of Ephraim, and Remaliah's son the head of Samaria. But within sixty years and five, Ephraim shall be crushed, no longer a nation. Unless your faith is firm you shall not be firm!
Ps 48:2-3a, 3b-4, 5-6, 7-8 Responsorial Psalm R. (see 9d) God upholds his city for ever. Great is the LORD and wholly to be praised
Matt 11:20-24 "... where most of his mighty deeds had been done, since they had not repented."Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would long ago have repented in sackcloth and ashes But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you. And as for you, Capernaum: Will you be exalted to heaven? You will go down to the nether world. For if the mighty deeds done in your midst had been done in Sodom, But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you."
