--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 3/30/11 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 3/30/11 --- [![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/2011/03/29/daily-readings-reflection-for-33011#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 3/30/11 Mar 29, 2011 4:00:22 PM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionar 240: Deuteronomy 4:1.5-9. Psalm 147:12-13.15-16.19-20. Matthew 5:17-19 [Wednesday's Readings](http://usccb.org/nab/033011.shtml) Naturally our Gospels focus on Jesus and make him greater than the angels, the saints, and the patriarchs and prophets of the Hebrew Scriptures. Today we return again to the Sermon on the Mount that certainly fits the season of Lent in a very practical way.  Jesus is a superb teacher-- a new Moses in Matthew's perception, and a servant Messiah who really does much more than a royal messiah could imagine.  Salvation is no easy victory even for Jesus, the Word made flesh.   Jesus is here to tell us he fulfills not destroys. He builds, he does not tear down. As the Word of God he makes God's words his own whether they come from Deuteronomy or from Matthew! His teaches goes to the heart of the Scriptures and his own words are the stuff of which a New Testament comes into existence. This is befitting one who is called in John's Gospel, the Word become flesh and living among us. The Torah is to be fulfilled with the fulness of its message; the heart of the message is doing the will of God and enjoying it.  We hear a lot of people saying, "How do I know the will of God?"  Just take your Bible and read what God says to you in a whole library of books that have been translated into almost every language used. The text from Deuteronomy spells out the same message that Jesus is teaching for it is the word of God.  It tells us, "Observe them (the precepts, the statutes, the commandments) carefully, for thus you will give evidence of your wisdom and intelligence to the nations."  We are to teach them to our children whether those in the family or those in the classroom. Psalm 147 prays both the message of Moses and that of Jesus. "He has proclaimed his word to Jacob, his statutes and ordinances to Israel. He has not done thus for any other nation.;; his ordinances he has not made known to them." Israel looks upon the "Ten Commandments" as Ten Words of God to them. Moses and Jesus teach them and us that these words are life-giving and inspired by the Spirit of God.  Power is in them.  They are the personal words of love and compassion from God to us and they help us do good things for ourselves and others.  These words come to us through those that are written and those that are spoken to us as we listen to God telling us them. We need only to put these words into action and thus the will of God is done through us. Jesus is speaking directly to us as his disciples.  He encourages us to learn from him so that we will be participants in building the kingdom and belonging to it.  He recalls the Torah and is forming the Gospel as he speaks. They are one in his mind and heart. "Justice and Peace shall kiss." Our own wisdom is developed through the discipline of observing not only the commandments but the spirit behind them as interpreted in the Sermon on the Mount.  One of the great mystical and theological holy men, Gregory of Nyssa, sums it up for us: "Love and fear (reverence and awe) of the Lord are the first  fulfillment of the law."  Amen. ### Share this article [![Share on Facebook](https://static.hubspot.com/final/img/common/icons/social/facebook-24x24.png)](http://www.facebook.com/share.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.catholicmom.com%2Farticles%2F2011%2F03%2F29%2Fdaily-readings-reflection-for-33011%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dfacebook) [![Share on Twitter](https://static.hubspot.com/final/img/common/icons/social/twitter-24x24.png)](https://twitter.com/intent/tweet?original_referer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.catholicmom.com%2Farticles%2F2011%2F03%2F29%2Fdaily-readings-reflection-for-33011%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.catholicmom.com%2Farticles%2F2011%2F03%2F29%2Fdaily-readings-reflection-for-33011%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter&source=tweetbutton&text=Daily%20Readings%20Reflection%20for%203%2F30%2F11) [![Share on Email](https://static.hubspot.com/final/img/common/icons/social/email-24x24.png)](mailto:?subject=Check%20out%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.catholicmom.com%2Farticles%2F2011%2F03%2F29%2Fdaily-readings-reflection-for-33011%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Demail%20&body=Check%20out%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.catholicmom.com%2Farticles%2F2011%2F03%2F29%2Fdaily-readings-reflection-for-33011%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Demail) ** #### About the Author ![Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/hubfs/Profile%203.jpg) ### [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) We welcome guest contributors who graciously volunteer their writing for our readers. 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