LIVE IT TODAY: Friday, October 3, 2025
When you receive My word, you receive Me. Do not harden your heart.
LIVE IT TODAY: Friday, October 3, 2025
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GOD’S DECLARATION TO YOU TODAY
When you receive My word, you receive Me. Do not harden your heart.
INVOCATION
Come, Holy Spirit! Through the intercession of Our Blessed Mother Mary, open my heart to hear and receive all that You desire for me. Draw me ever more deeply into the Love and Life of the Blessed Trinity!
GOSPEL | Luke 10:13-16
Jesus said to them,
“Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty deeds done in your midst
had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would long ago have repented,
sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
at the judgment than for you.
And as for you, Capernaum, ‘Will you be exalted to heaven?
You will go down to the netherworld.’
Whoever listens to you listens to me.
Whoever rejects you rejects me.
And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.”
EVERY DAY QUESTION
What struck you? Challenged you? Inspired you? What questions did it raise?
GOING DEEPER
Revelation received but unrepented becomes judgment.
These “woes” strike with thunder. Chorazin, Bethsaida, Capernaum—villages that saw miracles, heard sermons, walked with Jesus. They were not ignorant pagans, but insiders, privileged witnesses. Yet familiarity bred indifference. They saw the mighty works, but did not turn. Jesus compares them to Tyre and Sidon, notorious Gentile cities. The irony is searing: outsiders might have repented more quickly than insiders.
It is not lack of evidence that damns, but lack of response. In Greek, metanoia means not merely sorrow but a radical change of mind and life. These towns had wonders but not metanoia. They wanted spectacle without surrender, blessing without obedience. That same temptation corrodes the Church today. We hear the Gospel weekly, even daily, yet how often does it pierce us enough to change our schedules, our priorities, our hearts?
Family life is often where this subtle rejection plays out. Parents pray at Mass but neglect prayer at home. Children memorize catechism answers but never see faith lived in their parents’ forgiveness. Couples honor the sacraments outwardly but let resentment fester behind closed doors. The danger is not hostility to God, but apathy—the slow suffocation of faith by routine.
The words of Jesus today strip away the illusion: rejection of His messengers is rejection of Him. To brush aside the hard word of the Gospel is not neutral—it is cosmic rebellion. Our homes, then, are battlegrounds of reception or rejection. Will we receive Him through His word, His Church, His Spirit? Or will we shrug, delay, domesticate, and thus reject?
Here is the sting: the greater the light, the greater the responsibility. Privilege without repentance is peril. But the promise remains—“Whoever listens to you listens to Me.” Parents, when you open Scripture aloud at your table, when you pray over your children by name, you become Christ’s voice to them. Reception of your word can be reception of His.
Parents, do not let your home become a Capernaum—familiar with Christ yet unmoved. Proclaim Him boldly. Call your children to repentance with love. Pray over them by name, that they may hear in your voice the voice of the One who sends you.
“Man’s response to God by faith must be free, and therefore nobody is to be forced to embrace the faith against his will. But this freedom does not lessen the duty to accept and hold fast to the truth once it is known.” (CCC 160)
LIFE APPLICATION QUESTIONS
Greater Light, Greater Responsibility: How has God’s Word been made known to you, and how are you responding?
Spectacle or Surrender: Where in your life are you tempted to admire Christ’s works without truly repenting?
Reception at Home: How can your family more concretely receive Christ’s word in daily life rather than ignore it?
FAMILY LIVE IT
Make some time today to gather together and, going around, share one way you have recently heard God’s word but struggled to live it out.
After sharing, each family member should pray over another by name: Lord Jesus, pour out Your grace so that [Name] may know Your deep love personally. Free [Name] from lies and indifference. Strengthen [Name] to overcome temptations and excuses. Fill [Name] with joy to live Your Gospel fully in daily life.
DAILY PARENT & GRANDPARENT BLESSING
LORD JESUS CHRIST, let Your holy anointing be upon each of our children, grandchildren, and godchildren this day and week, including all to whom they are called in vocation, and all future generations! In Your Sacred Name we claim them for You! We renounce all whispers, lies, and influences of the Enemy! We pray right now that each know Your loving Presence, be forged in virtue, and be flooded with an abundance of Your Holy Spirit to live fully their identity and mission in You now and through all eternity, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother! Amen.
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GOING VERTICAL
“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Just as the vertical beam upholds the horizontal beam of the Cross, so too does undistracted, dedicated daily turning to God as our lifeblood uphold and strengthen every part of life. Start with just three minutes. Wait patiently for the breakthrough beyond the noise. Let Him speak.
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