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Contents: Volume 2 13th Sunday "Ordinary Time" 6/28/2026 1. -- Lanie LeBlanc OP - < lanie@leblanc.one>2. -- Fr. Jude Siciliano OP - <FrJude@JudeOP.org> 3. -- Elaine H. Ireland <ehireland@gmail.com>
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Carmen Mele OP <cmeleop@yahoo.com>
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Blessings, Dr. Lanie LeBlanc OP Southern Dominican Laity
****************************************************** From today’s 2 Kings reading:
One day Elisha come to Shunem where there was a woman of influence, who urged him to dine with her.
Reflection:
During the first part of our celebration today we, like the Shunemite woman welcomed God’s Word into our “home” – we made room for it in our hearts. As Scripture reminds us, the Word blossoms there with a promise of new life. God sends prophetic people to speak the Word to us, but remember, prophetic people don’t always fit into official categories; they aren’t always bearing an institutional stamp of approval. Yet, God often comes to us in the other and through people who are strangers.
So, we ask ourselves:
· Who comes bearing the Word of God to me? · Do they comfort, or challenge me with their message?
Click here for a link to this Sunday’s readings:
Fr. Jude Siciliano OP - <FrJude@JudeOP.org>
****************************************************** When I first reflected on this passage several years ago, it seemed contradictory. The first part sounds really harsh, even more so if you read it in Luke 14 (“hating father and mother, daughter and son”). I would think for many of Jesus’ early followers this would be a hard thing to accept, and likely confusing, given the fifth commandment. The cup of cold-water route, though? “Lord—no problema! I’ll even throw in a meal and a place to sleep! And I’ll still get my reward? Easy-peasy!” But we recall who Jesus is speaking to here: the Apostles who have been commissioned as missionaries in the Jewish tradition of the shaliah, an emissary sent to speak for and act on behalf of the master; the ones who have been with him from the outset and should at least be starting to get an idea what following Jesus is all about (although Peter’s statement of Jesus as the Messiah doesn’t happen until Chapter 16. Perhaps Peter starts to get a clearer picture in tomorrow’s gospel.) These guys have been around for some of Jesus’ healings, the raising of Jarius’ daughter, and the driving out of demons, and here, Jesus is sending them out to do the same! Wow! That’s heady stuff, and even though Jesus warns them of persecutions to come, I wonder if they really get what it means to follow Christ. I wonder if I do. Do you? Elaine H. Ireland <ehireland@gmail.com>
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Carmen Mele OP <cmeleop@yahoo.com>
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