June 13, 2021
Eleventh Sunday for Ordinary Time (Yia B)
Readings for Today
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Jesus tell di crowds: “Na so God kingdom be; e be like say one man scatter seed for ground, and e dey sleep and wake, night and day, and as all dis dey happen, di seed dey sprout and grow, but e no know how.” Mark 4:26–27
Dis na fine picture of how God Kingdom dey sprout, grow and bear fruit among us!
God want make His Kingdom come. Na dis we dey pray for inside di Lord Prayer. Wetin e mean when we pray make His Kingdom come? First, e mean say God want come live inside us and establish His Kingdom inside our hearts and souls. We must become living members of His Kingdom, and na Him must be our Ruler and Guide.
Second, we understand am to mean say His laws and wetin E want go stand firm for our world. Dis mean say God grace must change how society, politics and culture dey work, so dem go fit get part for His Kingdom and bear di fruit of di Kingdom. We get work to do!
Third, e mean say we dey look forward to di final and glorious coming of His Kingdom when Jesus go return with splendour and glory. For di end, everything go change, and God go pass His final judgment on di world and make everything new.
But dis passage above especially show us “how” dis go happen. E show say God Kingdom go take root small-small, gently and in miraculous way. Dis go happen for our lives, e go happen for our world as we Christians give ourselves to dis work, and e go happen in miraculous way for di end of time when Jesus go return.
Think about dis picture wey Jesus give us. Di farmer plant di seed, and small-small e sprout, grow and bear fruit. As dis dey happen, di farmer “no know how.”
Today, reflect on di mysterious ways wey God dey use establish His Kingdom. Na Him dey in charge first of all and pass everybody. But you must do your own part. You must make your heart and di world around you be like fertile ground. You must plant di seed, give am water as e need, but then allow God do His own part. God want make His Kingdom grow for your life and for di world far more than any of us want am. But if you do your part, you too go wonder as you watch di glorious work wey His grace dey do grow.
Lord, help my heart make e be fertile soil for Your Kingdom. Help me make I allow You grow Your Kingdom inside my heart, and help me make I be instrument of dat Kingdom for our world. Jesus, na You I trust.
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Meditations on Scripture for Ordinary Time
Saint of di Day – Saint Anthony of Padua, Priest and Doctor of di Church
Dem no dey celebrate am as liturgical memorial dis year because e fall on Sunday
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