--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 7/7/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 7/7/09 --- [![catholic-mom-logo-v2](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/images/catholic-mom-logo-v2.svg "catholic-mom-logo-v2")](https://www.catholicmom.com/) [![facebook](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-facebook.svg)](http://www.facebook.com/CatholicMomCommunity) [![twitter](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-twitter.svg)](http://twitter.com/CatholicMomCom) [![instagram](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-instagram.svg)](http://instagram.com/catholicmomcommunity) [![youtube](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/social-icon-youtube.svg)](https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCAuUqHCVPDzyMgSMaMZxxug?view_as=subscriber) [![search-icon](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/_catholicmom/icons/search-icon.svg)](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/2009/07/07/daily-readings-reflection-for-7709#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 7/7/09 Jul 7, 2009 4:00:57 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for 7/07/09 by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: Tue. of 14th week. Genesis 32:23-33. Psalm 17:1.2-3.6-7.8.15. Matthew 9:32-38. Lectionary #384: We all are interested in learning how to live in the presence of God. In fact, we try to do this when we pray.  The Scripture for this morning helps us to see that others some three thousand years ago were conscious and interested in living in the presence of God.  Jacob in wrestling with an envoy from God continues to struggle all night long and upon being released from the grasp of this mysterious being (an angel or a manifestation of God himself), he finds that his hip is out of place.  There are not chiropractors nearby for a number of millennia so the poor man will limp through life with a painful sciatic nerve from the hip that shoots down to his toes.  The giving of a new name to him commemorates the event and his own mission. He now is known as Israel or the one who wrestled with God. About forty years ago there was a story written about the Cistercian reform and movement in a book about a "Man who wrestled with God."  That had to be based on today's reading. Then the Jews do not eat the sinew which shrank and is upon the hollow of the thigh, unto this day.  There also is a naming of the place where this took place as Jacob realizes it is God wrestling with him:"And Jacob called the name of the place Penuel; for I have seen God face to face, and my life is preserved." (Gen.32:30). He definitely was in the presence of God. The Psalm helps us to think about the presence of God and to live within that presence: "In my justice I shall see your face, O Lord." (Psalm 17:15). In the miracle given in Matthew, it is Jesus who sees the one needing a cure; then he is looking at the crowd and is moved with compassion for they are like sheep without a shepherd. He turns his face to the poor, the widows, the sick and reaches out to them not only in word but in deed. But he needs help and today we are called to be his helpers. He needs our hands, our feet, and our cooperative heart and mind.  His plea reaches our ears, "The harvest is good but the laborers are scarce. Beg the harvest master to send out laborers to gather his harvest." Whenever we reach out to those in need and to our neighbor we become those laborers for the Lord and then we see the face of Jesus in them. 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