{"id":1880,"date":"2016-11-15T09:44:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T07:44:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/?p=1880"},"modified":"2020-11-17T02:09:22","modified_gmt":"2020-11-17T07:09:22","slug":"33rd-week-in-ordinary-time-tuesday-year-ii","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2016\/11\/15\/33rd-week-in-ordinary-time-tuesday-year-ii\/","title":{"rendered":"33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday, Year II"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s First Reading Our Lord puts the churches of Sardis and Laodicea on guard against the dangers of complacency and mediocrity. In some way the believers at Sardis believe they&#8217;re living their lives in accordance with what the Lord expects of them: maybe it&#8217;s a Christianity that wants to remain comfortable, or an attitude of just doing the minimum necessary as insurance. Our Lord warns them that they&#8217;re not doing enough. The imagery of the\u00a0garments and being dressed in white refer to the sanctifying gift of their baptism, which for many has become soiled for their actions. A white and clean garment not only signifies fidelity to baptismal grace, but remaining in a state of grace, striving for holiness.<\/p>\n<p>If the church at Sardis is doing the wrong things, the danger for the church at Laodicea is that they&#8217;re not doing anything at all. Like a swig of lukewarm beverage that doesn&#8217;t refresh whether the weather is hot or cold, and has all the flavor of a plain tofu, the Lord expects something, but doesn&#8217;t receive it. They think they have all they need, but they don&#8217;t. Our Lord describes himself as standing at the door, knocking. Both Sardis and Laodicea are leaving him out on the porch, not welcoming him into their home.<\/p>\n<p>Does Our Lord have a home in your heart? If you listen quietly, in prayer, and try to live as he wishes, you&#8217;ll open the door to him. Accept no substitutes.<\/p>\n<p><em>Readings:\u00a0Revelation 3:1\u20136, 14\u201322;\u00a0Psalm 15:2\u20134b, 5; Luke 19:1\u201310.<\/em> See also <a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2016\/10\/30\/31st-sunday-in-ordinary-time-cycle-c\/\">31st Sunday in Ordinary Time, Cycle C<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/temp.fathernikola.org\/2015\/11\/17\/33rd-week-in-ordinary-time-tuesday\/\">33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/thejaggedworddotcom.files.wordpress.com\/2014\/04\/jesus-knocking-at-door.gif?w=256&amp;h=244\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today&#8217;s First Reading Our Lord puts the churches of Sardis and Laodicea on guard against the dangers of complacency and mediocrity. In some way the believers at Sardis believe they&#8217;re living their lives in accordance with what the Lord expects of them: maybe it&#8217;s a Christianity that wants to remain comfortable, or an attitude &#8230; <a title=\"33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday, Year II\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/2016\/11\/15\/33rd-week-in-ordinary-time-tuesday-year-ii\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about 33rd Week in Ordinary Time, Tuesday, 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":[45,116,13,146],"class_list":["post-1880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ordinary-time","tag-thirty-third-week","tag-tuesday","tag-year-ii"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p65qtw-uk","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880","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=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1882,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions\/1882"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fathernikola.org\/liturgy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}