DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS:
My Beloved, those who know You,
those who have heard Your call and have left everything behind to follow You
because everything else is meaningless discovered true joy. Your love is perfect and You teach us to love
like You. Once we begin to allow Your
love to direct every area of our life then living becomes a great
adventure. To love as You love my Lord
gives meaning to everything. With love all
things are possible.
Verses 1-3 describes what life is
like in the absence of love:
1 If I could speak all the
human and angelic tongues, but had no love, I would only be sounding brass or
a clanging cymbal. 2 If I had the gift of prophecy, knowing
secret things with all kinds of knowledge, and had faith great enough to remove
mountains, but had no love, I would be nothing. 3 If I gave everything I had
to the poor, and even give up my body to be burned, if I am without love, it
would be of no value to me.
Those whom You have blessed with
special gifts including the gift of leadership must remember that they will be
more effective and certainly more pleasing to You if they remembered that all
their good works are filthy rags before You if their motive is not love and love
alone.
St. Paul, inspired by the genius and
wisdom of the Holy Spirit has written the most beautiful and though provoking
and perfect definition of love. St. John
the evangelist, inspired by this same Spirit wrote, “God is love and he who
lives in God lives in love.” If I live
in God then I will allow God to love in me and through me. I will be a His blessing that touches the
lives of those around me.
To be boastful, or arrogant because
of the gifts one is gives is pathetic because it reveals ignorance of the fact
that every good and perfect gift comes from God. The greatest gift of all – the Gift of gifts
is Love and when we fail to love God and neighbor as we ought to then we fail
to live as God has intended us to live and we become sour, sickly, spoilt,
cantankerous, fault finding, jealous, friendless and a general pain in the
derriere.
Psalm 33:2-5, 12 & 22
God has made a new covenant through His Son. Those who believe in Him and are baptized are
grafted on to Him. He makes us children
of God and co-heirs to the Kingdom.
My Beloved, 2000 years and more have passed since You
pierced time and entered as a Man into humanity but we still don’t get it. God became Man and His sole motive in doing
so was love. You were rejected then and
You continue to be rejected now. In the long
course of her history the Church, beginning with the Apostles, Fathers and Doctors
of Holy Mother Church, and with the aid of the Holy Spirit, have pondered on
the mustard seed of Your Word, long and
lovingly, they lived it, nurtured it, pondered on it ceaselessly and watched it
grow. The Church has carefully safeguarded
in her treasury all that she has received from You directly and through
Apostolic Tradition. She continues her mission tirelessly in helping
all to discover the pearl of great price
and the treasure in the field.
Few are interested though because we live are too self-absorbed and care
little about entering into the divine relationship You so generously offer us
with Yourself.
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