21st Sunday in Ordinary Time – Aug. 21, 2022

21st Sunday in Ordinary Time – Aug. 21, 2022

21C22.    Isaiah 66:18-21.   God will show his glory to all peoples so that they will worship him in Jerusalem with the Hebrews.

Psalm 117: “Go out to all the world and tell the Good News.”  “Praise the Lord, all you nations; glorify him, all you peoples!”

Luke 13:22-39.   Jesus says that many will attempt to be saved but will be too weak to be strictly adherent to Jesus.  They will think that it was enough to have had some passing acquaintance with him and that it was adequate to just be a Jew to be saved.  They will see the Hebrew prophets in heaven along with many non-Jews but they will be cast out.  Salvation is only achieved by being submissive and obedient to Jesus.

Hebrews 12:5-7, 11-13.   We are exhorted to remember what God has taught us: to suffer through the trials and difficulties that God has sent us so to learn the lessons that God has given us.  “At the time, all discipline seems a cause not for joy but for pain, yet later it brings the peaceful fruit of righteousness to those who are trained by it.” Jesus, “Son though he was, he learned obedience from what he suffered; and when he was made perfect (holy), he became the source of eternal salvation for all who obey him.”  (Hebrews 5:8-9)  God will show his glory to all who live as his children.