Third Sunday in Ordinary Time |26-01-2025| SUNDAY REACH | Fr Justus Paul OP | Sunday of Word of God

Join us in our mission to spread the Gospel and touch lives! By sharing our content directly, you help us reach more people. You're welcome to share the links of these videos, but please refrain from downloading and re-uploading them on other channels. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Devoting a specific Sunday of the liturgical year to the word of God can enable the Church to experience anew how the risen Lord opens up for us the treasury of his word and enables us to proclaim its unfathomable riches before the world. Pope Francis, Aperuit illis The Pope explained how we, too, on our own shores of life where we are occupied with the "nets" of our daily occupations, need to hear the Lord's call to set out with Him as missionaries, "God’s messengers and witnesses to a world drowning in words, yet thirsting for the very Word it so often ignores." “The Church lives from this dynamic: called by Christ and drawn to Him, she is sent into the world to bear witness to Him.” Recalling how the Saints down through the centuries opened their hearts and minds to God's Word, letting it touch them and renew their soul with the peace of Jesus and concern for others, the Pope suggested we, too, can be moved in a similar way if we "stop being 'deaf' to God’s Word." He pointed out that the risk for all of us is being overwhelmed by all we hear and letting the word of God glide over us without really hearing, accepting, or processing it. Also, when we read the word of God, we need to pray as well as read sacred Scripture, "so that it can become a dialogue between God and the reader." He recalled that two key aspects of Christian prayer are indeed "listening to the word and worshiping the Lord." “Let us make room for the prayerful reading of Jesus’ words. Then we will have the same experience as those first disciples.” ------------------------------------------------------------------- Please do support our mission to spread the Word of God, we would greatly appreciate your help in producing more of these videos. Thank you for your continued support! kindly write to us: [email protected] or drop a WhatsApp message: +91 7559384942 ------------------------------------------------------------------- Like us on Facebook at   / indiandominicans   Website: www.dominicans.in   / theindiandominicans   #dominicanmediamission #DOMINICANFRIARSINDIA #indiandominicans