--- title: Daily Scriptures Reflection for 11/7/11 description: Daily Scriptures Reflection for 11/7/11 --- [![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/2011/11/07/daily-scriptures-reflection-for-11711#) # Daily Scriptures Reflection for 11/7/11 Nov 7, 2011 9:00:28 AM  |  by [Guest](https://www.catholicmom.com/articles/author/guest) Scripture: Lectionary 491: Wisdom 1:1-7. Psalm 139: 1-3.4-6.7-8.9-10. Luke 17: 1-6 [Monday's Readings ](http://usccb.org/bible/readings/110711.cfm) We begin the Book of Wisdom with today’s first reading. Chapter 1:1-15 of this writing is considered to be a prologue to the rest of the work.  We discover that wisdom is a spiritual gift we are to cultivate in order to see God’s work within creation and redemption. Wisdom opens up for the believer the paths of immortality of the soul and the preparation for trusting in bodily resurrection as a part of the virtue of faith.  The theme for both came late in Judaism and this deuteron-canonical work is among the works attesting to immortality.  We are enabled by this inspired work to see the panorama of God’s loving-kindness toward us in the unfolding of the history of salvation from creation to redemption.  The book is a cosmic gift of the Holy Spirit that leads us to search and to find the works of wisdom in the practical things of life as well as those that touch upon the spiritual realm and the life beyond this life. Holy Wisdom goes beyond the secular wisdom of the Greeks and the Egyptians. In fact we can rely on the scripture scholars who tell us the book confronts both Greek and Egyptian beliefs and goes beyond them while carefully scrutinizing them and using what is helpful for its own message of great hope for us. The person who wrote this is an eloquent person who writes with great clarity and often is poetic.  It springs from his personal experience of pursuing and meditating on Lady Wisdom.   The writer is an Alexandrian Jew who could be contemporaneous with Paul and Jesus, Philo, and  Apollo the possible writer of the New Testament book of called Hebrews.  It is definitely one of the latest books to come into the Bible after the period of Alexander the Great and the ensuing two centuries when the concept of the immortality of the soul was accepted within Judaism. The inspired writer “attempts to revive the flagging spirits of his hard pressed people.”( David Winston). The book itself has sections that are quite appropriate for the celebration of feasts dedicated to the martyrs or to those Eucharistic celebrations for the deceased.  It has been cited at Jewish funerals. Wisdom is Sophia in Greek hence it is often called Woman Wisdom or Lady Wisdom.  Later it will be associated with the word Memra in Aramaic and Logos in Greek; thus it is also a fitting title for Jesus, the Living Word of God, become flesh and then dwelling among us as Wisdom personified. John’s Prologue is a marvelous poem that is filled with Wisdom in so many ways.  We are encouraged to read more about our passages in Wisdom for this day by meditating also on Proverbs 7:25-26, 29-30 and 8:2-3, 22-31; Job 28:12-28; and Sirach 24:1-22. ### 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%2F11%2F07%2Fdaily-scriptures-reflection-for-11711%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%2F11%2F07%2Fdaily-scriptures-reflection-for-11711%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter&url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.catholicmom.com%2Farticles%2F2011%2F11%2F07%2Fdaily-scriptures-reflection-for-11711%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Dtwitter&source=tweetbutton&text=Daily%20Scriptures%20Reflection%20for%2011%2F7%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%2F11%2F07%2Fdaily-scriptures-reflection-for-11711%3Futm_medium%3Dsocial%26utm_source%3Demail%20&body=Check%20out%20https%3A%2F%2Fwww.catholicmom.com%2Farticles%2F2011%2F11%2F07%2Fdaily-scriptures-reflection-for-11711%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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