--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 11/14/10 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 11/14/10 --- [![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/2010/11/14/daily-readings-reflection-for-111410#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 11/14/10 Nov 14, 2010 9:00:11 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) **Reflection on Today’s Daily Readings by Fr. Bertrand Buby, SM ** [Today’s Readings](http://www.usccb.org/nab/) Scripture: Lectionary 160 . 33rd Sun. Ordinary Time - C- Malachai 3:19-20. Psalm 98:5-6,7-8.9. II Thessalonians 3:7-12. Luke 21:5-19: One of the strongest virtues in the New Testament is patient endurance. One Bible translator has rendered this as "sheer-dogged endurance." This is the last line of today's Gospel, and it can serve to help us think about how we are to win our lives, that is, be saved? Jesus connects this patient endurance as part of our way of cooperating with his redemptive gift of self through suffering, death, resurrection, and glorification. The word in Koine (Common) Greek is hypomone which has several meanings: patient endurance, perseverance, and steadfastness. Frances Xavier Cabrini the saint who died in Chicago practiced this virture every step of the way God put before her. She exemplifies the virtue in an extraordinary manner in all of the reversals, disappointments and failures she endured while moving ahead with building schools, hospitals, and orphanages. Only the New Revised Version translates the verse in the following way that helps us see it connected to our salvation: "By your endurance you will gain your souls." The words are certainly meant for the above events mentioned in Luke 21: 5-19: the destruction of Jerusalem in 70 A.D., the appearance of false messiahs, the rumors of wars, earthquakes, plagues, and famines. Imprisonments, and even conflict between brother and sister, father and mother over against their children. Jesus keeps telling us to persevere, to be steadfast, to endure patiently. Many are terrified by the mention of hell and demons, purgatory, suffering, and events that are recorded here in Luke's Gospel. This, if not seen in the context of the whole message of the New Testament, can divert us from being at peace with ourselves and having the ability to persevere through all of these threats. Some acquire a warped sense of the image of God, others suffer from scupulosity, still others think negatively about themselves as being of no worth. This often takes a lifetime of effort and help to overcome and some do not succeed. First impressions of who God is are often linked to only a God who keeps score on our sins of omission and commission. The image of God as love that is so strong in the Bible is obscured by our images of God. Yet, we hear that our being strong and enduring in our faith in a God who is love is what will bring us through and give us the bigger and better picture that the Good News brings. We often suffer from a strong formation in faith and are dominated more by a fear of God as judge. The readings nevertheless do help us to correct our misgivings. At the end of Malachai we read, "But for you who fear my name, there will arise the sun of justice with its healing rays." We answer to the message at the end of the reading with "This is the Word of the Lord." It is never to late to change our approach to God. A conversion of heart and mind are necessary and the grace of God is there through the sacrament of reconciliation and the healing power of the Eucharist. "God is love." Patient endurance helps us to see things more clearly, albeit, in the long run. We are cleansed of the fear of our sins from the past which is now a closed book after the effects of the Sacrament of Reconciliation which bring home to us individually as well as a community of faith--strong faith as the word "patient-endurance means. We listen to the Psalm and its response and find there is a calming message there too. "The Lord comes to rule the earth with justice and the people with equity." In Thessalonians Paul tells us not to stop working. The end of the world is not able to be figured out by anyone--even Jesus tells us elsewhere it is not his nor ours to announce, but only God's, his Father. We keep taking that one step at a time patiently and with sheer dogged endurance (hypomone). The Mother of Jesus, Mary of Nazareth, is a woman of such perseverance in strong faith (fortes in fide). She is " a disciple who in a certain sense sums up and reechoes in her own person the main themes of Christian teaching, a mother of supporting and protecting the faith of her children. She who looked constantly on the face fo her son Jesus can help us to form a correct image of who God is--Love Incarnate. We therefore pray for the faith that is supported by endurance and patience: "Almighty and eternal God, you gave the Blessed Virgin Mary, glorious mother of your Son, as a pillar of strength to all who call upon her aid; grant through her intercession that we may be strong in faith (fortes in fide), unwavering in hope, and steadfast in love." Yes, by your patience you shall possess your souls. 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