{"id":1787,"date":"2016-10-14T11:28:49","date_gmt":"2016-10-14T09:28:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=1787"},"modified":"2022-10-14T02:12:35","modified_gmt":"2022-10-14T06:12:35","slug":"28th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday-year-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2016\/10\/14\/28th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday-year-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"28th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday, Year II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2016\/10\/13\/28th-week-in-ordinary-time-thursday-year-ii\/\">yesterday<\/a>&#8216;s First Reading Paul, addressing the Ephesians, reminded us that we&#8217;ve been chosen to be holy and blameless in\u00a0God&#8217;s sight since before the foundation of the world. Today he expounds on how we are chosen in Christ and for what we are chosen: we exist in order to praise God, and Our Lord helps us to do that. Praising God may not seem all that exciting a vocation, but how many people do we applaud when they simply entertain us, and how much more has God done for us to merit praise?<\/p>\n<p>The Lord doesn&#8217;t expect praise in a vacuum, just as we normally applaud someone who has accomplished something, whether noble or entertaining.\u00a0We praise the Lord here on earth because we&#8217;ve already received the &#8220;first installment,&#8221; as Paul describes it, of our redemption. When we believe and are baptized our redemption begins, right here, right now, and Jesus was a hero to make it happen. That merits our praise now, and we can only imagine how much more we&#8217;ll want to praise God in eternity when our redemption is complete, free from sin, death, and fear.<\/p>\n<p>Let&#8217;s meditate on the &#8220;first installment&#8221; we&#8217;ve received in our life today and give Our Lord a round of applause.<\/p>\n<p><em>Readings:\u00a0Ephesians 1:11\u201314;\u00a0Psalm 33:1\u20132, 4\u20135, 12\u201313;\u00a0Luke 12:1\u20137.<\/em> See also <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/10\/16\/28th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday\/\">28th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/07\/11\/14th-week-in-ordinary-time-saturday\/\">14th Week in Ordinary Time, Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.losporque.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/por-que-aplaudimos-motivos-del-aplauso.jpg\" width=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8216;s First Reading Paul, addressing the Ephesians, reminded us that we&#8217;ve been chosen to be holy and blameless in\u00a0God&#8217;s sight since before the foundation of the world. Today he expounds on how we are chosen in Christ and for what we are chosen: we exist in order to praise God, and Our Lord helps &#8230; <a title=\"28th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday, Year II\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2016\/10\/14\/28th-week-in-ordinary-time-friday-year-ii\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 28th Week in Ordinary Time, Friday, Year II\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[8,45,101,146],"class_list":["post-1787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-friday","tag-ordinary-time","tag-twenty-eighth-week","tag-year-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-sP","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1787"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1787\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}