Sunday 2nd October 2016
27 th Sunday in Ordinary Time 10.15 am Sung Mass at St. Peter's, Eastwood SS9 4BX Home to the Southend Ordinariate Mission Said Masses at 8.30am and 6pm. Life By Faith: Scott Hahn Reflects on the 27th Sunday in Ordinary Time Download Audio File Readings: Habakkuk 1:2-3 ; 2:2-4 Psalm 95:1-2 , 6-9 2 Timothy 1:6-8 , 13-14 Luke 17:5-10 Because of his faith, the just man shall live. We hear in today's First Reading the original prophetic line made so central by St. Paul (see Romans 1:17 ; Galatians 3:11 ; Hebrews 10:38 ). We are to live by faith in Christ who loved us and gave himself on the Cross for us (see Galatians 2:20 ). The world, though, can seem to us as seventh-century Judah seemed to Habakkuk—in the control of God's enemies. The strife and discord we face in our own lives can sometim