--- title: Daily Readings Reflection for 8/23/11 description: Daily Readings Reflection for 8/23/11 --- [![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/2011/08/23/daily-readings-reflection-for-82311#) # Daily Readings Reflection for 8/23/11 Aug 23, 2011 9:06:27 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionary # 426. I Thess. 2:1-8. Psalm 139:1-3.4-6. Matthew 23:13-22 [Tuesday's Readings](http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/082311.cfm) Paul's great affection for the people of Thesslonica warms our hearts as we hear his inspired words. They are directed to us who too are the people of God, God's Church or assembly of the faithful.  Paul gives us two images of himself; he is an apostle and therefore a preacher of Good News; he is a nurse taking care of the infants entrusted to him in their new life of faith in the person of Jesus the Anointed One.  His primary goal is to preach (kerygein) the Good News as a proclamation (kerygma) and secondarily as their teacher he also will instruct them (didaskein) in the rudiments of the faith.  Kerygma is announced and basically is the story of Jesus' saving mysteries of his suffering, death, and resurrection--the background for true preaching of the Gospel and not moralizing.  The people have responded well as Paul has learned from Timothy and Silvanus who are in Phillipi or Macedonia.  Paul is writing from Corinth and has depended on what he has heard from his two favored disciples. He tells us: "we were among you as gentle as any nursing mother fondling her little ones." We are listening to the seven woes against the Pharisees but need to abstract from that since Matthew is framing these lines in reference to his Church and its times where he is trying to keep both Gentiles and Jews who have embraced Jesus as Messiah together.  The woes should never be inflicted upon Jews as some preachers have done in the past. Looking at what Jesus seems to be teaching we learn that mixed among these seven woes (we are in the second) are justice, mercy, and good faith.  We learn that our external behavior and even appearance should match what is really inside of us, namely, the Spirit of God and an open heart toward others. Our prayer: "Lord, we thank you for the apostles and their companions who have brought the Good News to all peoples.  We are grateful that we have the Scriptures to guide us and often are exposed to the Glad Tidings by those who preach the Gospel with transparency by allowing your living voice to overshadow their own.  We realize that often we are exposed more to teaching than hearing the Good News and they were definitely different in the early church. One was the kerygma or the heralding of the Glad Tidings or Good News the other is called the Didache and is the formal teaching of things that are expected of the followers of Jesus in their behavior and words. We need both of these for growing in our faith, Lord, and we ask you that we be open to receiving your message especially the Glad Tidings so necessary to day as we hear and read of bad news and sad news each day. Help us to be living preachers of the Gospel (kerygma) that you have handed on to the Churches founded upon the apostles. 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