Sisters and brothers in Christ, as the warmth of the hands of the potter shapes the clay so the warmth of God's love shapes our souls. The question is, do we allow our Father in heaven to shape our hearts, our very being, as our Lord ask us in today's first reading from the Book of the Prophet Jeremiah: "Can I not do to you. . . as this potter has done? says the LORD. Indeed, like clay in the hand of the potter, so are you in my hand. . ."
What (or who) in our lives has hardened our hearts toward God? Can we forgive so that we can be free to become who God desires us to be? Whatever (or whoever) is holding us back and binding us in chains, let us nail it to the Cross of Christ and ask him to free us. It is as we pray in the Lord's Prayer. . . "for us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us."
In the end, we are judged by our actions. Jesus tells us in today's Gospel parable that on the day of judgment, "the angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace". We will be counted among the righteous ones of God?
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Gospel of the Day
“The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea,
which collects fish of every kind.
When it is full they haul it ashore
and sit down to put what is good into buckets.
What is bad they throw away.
Thus it will be at the end of the age.
The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous
and throw them into the fiery furnace,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.”
“Do you understand all these things?”
They answered, “Yes.”
And he replied,
“Then every scribe who has been instructed in the Kingdom of heaven
is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom
both the new and the old.”
When Jesus finished these parables, he went away from there.
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