Make Us True Servants, Working Toward the Messiah Jesus's and the Prophets Reward of Getting into Heaven!

So many blessings in our lives! God is so good to us! We had a nice priest in Father John for the time we were at St. Sebastian Church, he retired after 24 years there and 60 as a priest. He was kind, loving, and inviting, he shook your hand and looked you in the eyes, he cared and was welcoming, unlike others we know from down south. Now they put a new priest this week at our church, Father Antony, he is from Southern India and has been a priest since 2001 and is 50, he started with a joke and talked about his main mission is to get to Heaven and help to get all of us there too. He was kind and inviting. He even offered communion on the side we go up so that was nice. His homily and all was very nice, it is nice to have a nice goodwill priest, kind, loving, and caring, our other one was so indifferent and unlike Christ. We are called to be servants like the reading talks about this week. We are called to be good Christians, loving to all, disciples, He will always protect us, He will always give us peace. We need to put all our trust in Him! For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord! Like the Psalm this week says! We need to live with the Holy Spirit, we need to think of ourselves as dead to sin and living for God in Christ Jesus only. We need to live for Christ, not for family, loved ones, siblings, others, only for God as Jesus reminds us in the Gospel this week. We need to be lights for Christ and take up our crosses and follow Him always! We need to be servants, offer that cup of water to others! Be of service, be a disciple, show love like Paul and Jesus remind us. That is all that really matters so to get into Heaven to spend eternity with Jesus, our number one mission in life! We need to take up our cross and follow Jesus!  We need to remember that we can receive the Messiah's and prophets reward! We must work toward being holy people and always following Jesus first! 

 Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading 1
2 Kings 4:8-11, 14-16a
One day Elisha came to Shunem,
where there was a woman of influence, who urged him to dine with her.
Afterward, whenever he passed by, he used to stop there to dine.
So she said to her husband, "I know that Elisha is a holy man of God.
Since he visits us often, let us arrange a little room on the roof
and furnish it for him with a bed, table, chair, and lamp,
so that when he comes to us he can stay there."
Sometime later Elisha arrived and stayed in the room overnight.
Later Elisha asked, "Can something be done for her?"
His servant Gehazi answered, "Yes!
She has no son, and her husband is getting on in years."
Elisha said, "Call her."
When the woman had been called and stood at the door,
Elisha promised, "This time next year
you will be fondling a baby son."

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 89:2-3, 16-17, 18-19
R. (2a) For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
The promises of the LORD I will sing forever,
through all generations my mouth shall proclaim your faithfulness.
For you have said, "My kindness is established forever;"
in heaven you have confirmed your faithfulness.
R. For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
Blessed the people who know the joyful shout;
in the light of your countenance, O LORD, they walk.
At your name they rejoice all the day,
and through your justice they are exalted.
R. For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.
You are the splendor of their strength,
and by your favor our horn is exalted.
For to the LORD belongs our shield,
and to the Holy One of Israel, our king.
R. For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.

Reading 2
Romans 6:3-4, 8-11
Brothers and sisters:
Are you unaware that we who were baptized into Christ Jesus
were baptized into his death?
We were indeed buried with him through baptism into death,
so that, just as Christ was raised from the dead
by the glory of the Father,
we too might live in newness of life.
If, then, we have died with Christ,
we believe that we shall also live with him.
We know that Christ, raised from the dead, dies no more;
death no longer has power over him.
As to his death, he died to sin once and for all;
as to his life, he lives for God.
Consequently, you too must think of yourselves as dead to sin
and living for God in Christ Jesus.

Alleluia
1 Peter 2:9
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
You are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation;
announce the praises of him who called you out of darkness into his wonderful light.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel
Matthew10:37-42
Jesus said to his apostles:
"Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me,
and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me;
and whoever does not take up his cross
and follow after me is not worthy of me.
Whoever finds his life will lose it,
and whoever loses his life for my sake will find it.
"Whoever receives you receives me,
and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
Whoever receives a prophet because he is a prophet
will receive a prophet's reward,
and whoever receives a righteous man
because he is a righteous man
will receive a righteous man's reward.
And whoever gives only a cup of cold water
to one of these little ones to drink
because the little one is a disciple—
amen, I say to you, he will surely not lose his reward."