--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 7/25/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 7/25/09 --- [![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/2009/07/25/daily-readings-reflection-for-72509#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 7/25/09 Jul 25, 2009 8:00:20 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Reflection on the Daily Readings for 7/25/09 by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: Sat of 16th week. Exodus 24:3-8. Psalm 50:1-2, 5-6. 14-15. Matthew 13:24-30. Lectionary # 400: God makes covenants with communities of faith. We have seen this in the covenant with Abraham, then with Noah, Moses, and in the New Testament with the Christian communities started by the apostles.  We learn that a response of faith and action are part of a covenant.  In our first reading we  see the people, the Israelites, responding to God and the covenant as they proclaim, "We will do everything the Lord has told us."  The narrative continues with the blood offerings of Moses and the people witnessing and agreeing on them. He pours the animal sacrificial blood on the altar and then sprinkles the people with the blood as a sign for them that they are participants in what is happening.  Again the people shout out, "All that the Lord has said, we will do."  Both their faith response and their putting it into action is part of the covenant. Words alone do not suffice. Jesus celebrates the Passover which is a great event resulting from the covenant God has made with his people.  Jesus uses the bread and wine at the supper as the elements and real signs of his covenant with the apostles as they gather at Passover.  They will pass this tradition on to the communities or churches they will found. And we, the inheritors, continue to repeat what Jesus has done in the liturgical celebration of the Eucharist. We then are sent to do what the apostles did. We pass on the words and actions of Jesus into our witness, our ministries and our ordinary work where we meet others. Our example probably is more important than our words in witnessing to who we are in relationship to our covenant with the Lord Jesus Christ. Besides our believing in the covenants we realize we have to put the agreement, the words of the covenant into action.  We learn that Jesus invites us to "do" the will of God.  Both the narrative of the Exodus and the words of Jesus emphasize that covenants call us to action through faith communities which help us to be strong in our faith witness to others. When we hear the celebrant say, "Go, the Mass is finished," this means we are now ready to begin our work of witnessing and proclaiming what we have made in our covenant with God and Jesus. 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