Pope Francis looks at a drawing given to him during an audience at the Vatican Sept. 7, 2023, with members of the Italian Biblical Association and people taking part in National Bible Week in Rome. (CNS photo/Vatican Media)
Source & Summit: The Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
(The faithful) taking part in the Eucharistic sacrifice, which is the source and summit of the whole Christian life, offer the Divine Victim to God, and themselves along with it.
-The Second Vatican Council fathers in Lumen Gentium, #11
Source & Summit is a feature of The Western Kentucky Catholic online, celebrating the National Eucharistic Revival: Year of Parish Revival. Intended to help Catholics of our parishes to probe the riches of our liturgical year and celebrate the liturgy well, the column will always start with the Bible readings for the Mass of the Day to help us reflect on, and help to “unpack” and expand our experiences at liturgy into the domestic church (the home) and the workplace.
Sunday reflections will be based on the Lord’s Day, the Liturgy, the Eucharist, and, occasionally, community.
Sunday, September 24, 2023:
Twenty-Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/092423.cfm
Isaiah 55:6—9
Psalm 145: 2—3, 8—9, 17—18
Philippians 1:20c—24, 27a
Matthew 20:1—16a
From Sunday to Sunday the word of the Risen Lord illuminates our existence, wanting to achieve the end for which it was sent. (Cf. Isaiah 55:10—11) From Sunday to Sunday communion in the Body of Christ wants to make also of our lives a sacrifice pleasing to the Father, in the fraternal communion of sharing, of hospitality, of service. From Sunday to Sunday the energy of the Bread broken sustains us in announcing the Gospel in which the authenticity of our celebration shows itself. Let us abandon our polemics to listen together to what the Spirit is saying to the Church. Let us safeguard our communion. Let us continue to be astonished by the beauty of the Liturgy.
-Pope Francis
To learn more about the Diocese of Owensboro’s celebration of the National Eucharistic Revival, visit https://owensborodiocese.org/eucharistic-revival/.
