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July 9, 2009, Thursday Read: Gn. 44:18-21, 23-29; 45:1-5 Mt. 10:7-15 "If anyone does not receive you or listen to what you have to say, leave that house or town, and once outside it shake its dust from your feet. I assure you, it will go easier for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah on the day of judgment than it will for that town." (Mt. 10:14-15)"Lot settled among the cities of the Plain, pitching his tents near Sodom. Now the inhabitants of Sodom were very wicked in the sins they committed against the Lord." (Gn. 13:12-13)"The Lord rained down sulphurous fire upon Sodom and Gomorrah. He overthrew those cities and the whole Plain, together with the inhabitants of the cities and the produce of the soil." (Gn. 19:24-25)The scriptures tell us that the main sins of those towns were abuses of the gift of sexuality and lack of respect for other human beings. (Gen. 19:1-9) "He blanketed the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in ashes and condemned them to destruction, thereby showing what would happen in the future to the godless." (2 Pt. 2:6)Jesus warns us that the worst sins involve the rejection of the message of salvation: "If anyone does not receive you... it will go easier for the region of Sodom and Gomorrah..."This explains why sins committed out of ignorance, out of simply not knowing the truth, are less serious than rejecting the truth. Rejecting the truth, and he who bears it, is a conscious and voluntary act; it is the rejection of the Holy Spirit! (Acts 7:51; Mk. 3:28-30) Reflection and commentary Psalm 147:19 "The LORD also proclaims his word to Jacob, decrees and laws to Israel." |
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