19th Sunday in Ordinary Time (August 10, 2025)

Wis 18.6-9; Heb 11.1-2, 8-19; Lk 12.32-48

• We each have a task, like the servants in the parable. When the Lord returns, He will call each of us to give an account of what we have done. The faithful will be rewarded; the lax will be punished. So, we must be diligent in fulfilling the task that the Lord has given to us: to proclaim the Gospel of Life.

• We, too, are to have faith in God; to trust God. Just as Abraham was, in his old age, chosen by God and given a mission and a great purpose for his life. Abraham believed God; He trusted in God and His promises.

• In our current culture, the elderly are often treated as though their lives are without meaning and purpose, a burden to society, but God, who is the author of life, has extended their days for a purpose.

• Pope Francis in his first encyclical, Lumen Fidei, traced the history of faith from Abraham and demonstrated how the Incarnation revealed the ultimate object of faith: Jesus Christ. Unless we believe in Him, we cannot understand His designs.

Pro-Life Intercession

That courts and judges may preeminently uphold the sanctity of life, that they may be prepared to give an account of their service when Christ the Lord returns, we pray to the Lord …