--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 10/31/09 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 10/31/09 --- [![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/2009/10/31/daily-readings-reflection-for-103109#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 10/31/09 Oct 31, 2009 6:23:06 PM  |  by [Lisa M. Hendey](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/lisa-m-hendey) Scripture: Lectionary # 484. Sat of 30th week. Romans 11:1-2.11-12.25-29. Psalm 24: 12-13.14-15.17-18. Luke 14:7-11. The Holy Scriptures are filled with hope and consolation. Paul tells us that the "gifts of God and the call of God are irrevocable." All of the covenants and promises that God has made with us are faithfully kept by the God of both testaments (the Old Testament and the New Testament). God's covenants are meant for our own call to be faithful to the precepts and the love commands in the Scriptures. Paul realized that his Bible and that of Jesus are meant in this context: that the gifts and calls of God are never abrogated. That gives us Christians the need to reflect that "supersessionism" is not part of the biblical message. What Paul is saying is coming from his own appreciation and interpretation with he gives us in Romans 9:6-13. This passage helps us to understand Romans 11:29. The promises of God continue throughout the centuries, but they demand a deep spiritual reflection on our part to understand them. We Catholic Christians of a certain age did not read the Bible very well and had some bad impressions and images of God when we referred to the Hebrew Scriptures. Fortunately, Catholic scholars have helped to get rid of this heretical and negative idea. It started with Marcion who wanted to irradicate anything that was Jewish or Hebrew in the Bible. We would be reduced to a few chapters called the Marcionite New Testament--some of Luke and Paul. Yet, we hear many Catholics saying the God of the Old Testament is an angray and wrathful God. We need to learn to read within the context of the historical period in which these books were written and realize that the God of both testaments is the same and that God is a God of love. If we take away the Old Testament from our reading then we do not really understand the New Testament. Almost every writer of the Bible were Jewish and understood what Paul is saying in Romans 9-11. Words like loving-kindness, grace, glory and the word love are present in the Bible and the Psalms are the prayers wherein the word for love predominates and shows us the heart of Judaism. We have to learn how to read both with the history behind them as well as with the feeling and ethos contained in them. Not an easy task, but it must be done with starting with a prayer to the Holy Spirit and then pondering over, studying, and seeing the full scope of what is written in these love letter of God. Both the Old Testament and the New are filled with God's love for everyone. The deeper spiritual reflection we make in the light of our respective faiths help us to understand some difficult passages better. We need to be informed. We need to read more completely and avoid the Marcionite tendency that comes from laziness and ignorance of what the Scriptures mean for both Jew and Christian. Paul knows this and is doing this in Romans where he is certainly conscious that both Jew and Christian are living together as neighbors and whom both are under the scrutiny of the Roman government. Paul's dearest friends Aquila and Priscilla were exiled from Rome because they were Jews. This happened in the forties of the common era ( 44 A.D.). Paul's words are precious and guide us to go more deeply than what we have heard from others who never have read the Bible with sensitivity and reverence. The gifts of God and God's call are forever. Jesus is sharing his Judaism with us and deepening the interpretation by his spiritual and prophetic proclamations, yet, he promises us that he is not changing one iota or tittle of the Hebrew Scriptures. God is Creator, Revealer, and Redeemer of us all through the inspiration shared by those who have written the Scriptures under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit. The Old Testament not the New is the Bible of Jesus. It is his words and his interpretations and actions that lead others to write under the Spirit to form the New Testament.Both Testaments help us to relate in an intimate way as did Jesus and Paul to what was written and preached. Our Psalm for this day is a confirmation that the Lord does not abandon his people ( we all fall under this). This verse of the Psalm is a good insight into what Paul is saying: "For the Lord will not cast off his people, nor abandon his inheritance; But judgment shall again be with justice, all the upright of heart shall follow it." 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