Twenty-second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year C

Meditation – 22nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Yr C
Jeremiah 2:4-13
Psalm 81:1,10-16
Hebrews 13:1-8, 15-16

“Never will I leave you; never will I forsake you” (Hebrews 13:5). Those words could well be the axiom for the whole Bible. God never has left or forsaken the people who are his own. He promised, using those very words, to be with the Israelites as they entered the Promised Land, facing unknown terrors and hostile inhabitants (Deuteronomy 31:1-6). He inspired the writer of Hebrews to quote the same words in order to give comfort to the Christians who, among other things, feared persecution and were tempted back to Judaism (Hebrews 12:25-29; 13:1-6). Throughout the Bible we can read of individuals and nations who tested God’s patience and who suffered retribution as a result, but all through the trials and suffering, God was with them...

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