{"id":1453,"date":"2009-05-30T07:03:50","date_gmt":"2009-05-30T11:03:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/?p=1453"},"modified":"2009-05-30T07:03:50","modified_gmt":"2009-05-30T11:03:50","slug":"fr-sostenes-from-may-27","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.cancaonova.com\/catholicismanew\/2009\/05\/30\/fr-sostenes-from-may-27\/","title":{"rendered":"Fr. Sostenes from May 27"},"content":{"rendered":"

Overseers who belong to God<\/strong><\/p>\n

A dictionary from internet brings an important meaning to the word \u201coverseer\u201d: \u201cOne who keeps watch over and directs the work of others\u201d (www.answers.com). As a supervisor or a superintendent; \u201cOne who keeps watch over and directs the work of others\u201d, we are overseers who belong to God, let\u00b4s see if we are fulfilling our mission well.<\/p>\n

It\u00b4s important to realize that both, Paul and Jesus, were setting out, so they needed people who come along keeping on the work, the mission, and the first feature is: He must tend to himself; because he belongs to God. The second, He must tend to other\u00b4s work, because all belong to God. Paul had already told the Ephesians: \u201call things are under the feet of Christ\u201d (Ef 1,22), thus our Psalm has reason because in Christ every member of the kingdom of the word accepting or not also belongs to God. They are setting out, what do they do now? They need people living according God\u00b4s plans, living according their own vocation.<\/p>\n

Saint Paul said to the \u201cpresbyters of the Church of Ephesus\u201d: \u201cKeep watch over yourselves and over the whole flock of which the Holy Spirit has appointed you overseers, in which you tend the Church of God\u201d. The overseer or the vigilant, need first to watch over himself, for example: he does not sleep well, because he may miss some thing important this mean he is to know well his own mission, I can\u00b4t teach what I never learned, I can\u00b4t demand someone be what, I\u00b4m not… If I belong to God, I can\u00b4t belong to laziness, I can\u00b4t belong to my whim or even \u201cmyself\u201d, I can\u00b4t belong to others; some people only pray before their master and don\u00b4t pray well during holidays, weekends, vacations, leisure, I can\u00b4t wear a mask, but I must \u201cwatch over the whole flock\u201d said Paul, why? Because the others also belong to God, and what God wants is that we can understand that we belong to Him and the others also, so Jesus said: \u201cThey do not belong to the world any more than I belong to the world\u201d.<\/p>\n

Sons and daughters, we are overseers, and we must keep watching over ourselves and the others, because they and us, all of us: We belong to God. So we can\u00b4t wear any mask, but we must be the overseers that our God wants, the overseers who belong to God.
\nAmen.<\/p>\n

Fr. S\u00f3stenes Vieira
\nCommunity Can\u00e7\u00e3o Nova<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A dictionary from internet brings an important meaning to the word \u201coverseer\u201d: \u201cOne who keeps watch over and directs the work of others\u201d (www.answers.com). As a supervisor or a superintendent; \u201cOne who keeps watch over and directs the work of others\u201d, we are overseers who belong to God, let\u00b4s see if we are fulfilling our mission well.
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