The Scribe

Day's Saints

Memorial of Saint Alphonsus Liguori, Bishop and Doctor of the Church

Jer 18:1-6

This word came to Jeremiah from the LORD:

Rise up, be off to the potter’s house;

there I will give you my message.

I went down to the potter’s house and there he was, 

working at the wheel.

Whenever the object of clay which he was making

turned out badly in his hand, 

he tried again,

making of the clay another object of whatever sort he pleased.

Then the word of the LORD came to me:

Can I not do to you, house of Israel,

as this potter has done? says the LORD.

Indeed, like clay in the hand of the potter,

so are you in my hand, house of Israel.

Gospel Mt13:47-53

Jesus said to the disciples:

“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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Jesus is the good scribe who is master of his task; He knows where everything is, and the nature of all things, so that He may gather the wise and the holy to Himself, relegating the sinful and evil to punishment, the purification which never ends because it cannot. Hell exists because the inhabitants rejected Love and rejected God.

The Lord speaks to us when it is necessary, and says the things we must know so we may act prudently and decisively when such things are called for.

The human race has had much to suffer at the hands of evil, but the day is coming when he will repudiated and rejected by those who are the Lord's. Then there will be the just and the holy and there will be a great joy in the instant Heaven is free of evil.

Jesus acts impartially, and in a way that heals and delivers. He makes sure that those in need are provided for, and those who have not reached out in prayer of love will be provided the opportunity to see and know God. Woe to those to whom He reaches out to save them, for they will be beyond rescue if they do not accept Him. There is but one Savior, and one opportunity to be saved. 

Jesus has mourned and tasted death like all men, therefore He knows how to save and to comfort and to set free those in bondage. Lies will be revealed for what they are, and evil deeds as well, but God will rescue those who cry out to Him.

One cannot err putting  one's trust in God. Neither will His Mother turn Her back on us. Reach out to Her in prayer and live in holiness.