SONG OF SONGS:3-4b
I
FOUND THE LOVE OF MY HEART, I HELD HIM AND WOULD NOT LET HIM GO.
M--- MINE TRUST ME
DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS:
I am saved by the Gospel on which I stand firm for it has a
Rock solid Foundation and You are the Cornerstone, provided that it is the
Gospel handed down by You to the Apostles and from them to their
successors. The same Gospel that You
preached and taught – the same yesterday, today and forever. Where sin is sin and virtue is virtue and the
definition of Absolute Truth is unchanging.
This is the Good News – You died for our sins, You were buried and You
were raided on the 3rd day in accordance with very prophecy recorded
in Scripture.
You appointed Peter as the first pope and gave him singular
authority in the Church that You founded After Your Resurrection You appeared to
the Apostles and to St. Paul. You gave
them Your Own Holy Spirit to carry out the mission to which they were called, the
mission to go spread the Gospel to the ends of the world. Every baptized Christian has through Your
merits become an adopted child of God.
We share Your life, we have one hope and we are strengthened in love by
the God of love who is revealed to us unceasingly by the Holy Spirit who binds
the Father and the Son in love.
Verse 10 “…by the
grace of God, I am what I am, and his grace towards me has not been without
fruit.”
The grace given to every Christian bears fruit for the
Kingdom. We labor in His vineyard each
according to the work He assigns to us. He
works through us and he desires to establish His Kingdom on earth with our help,
each according to His call and the work entrusted to us. He provides the grace
in abundance and we offer our will, our obedience, our humility which enables
us to work with integrity and love.
You my Beloved are my God.
My experience of You has always been goodness and loving kindness. You have never failed me and I know You never
will. Your right hand is lifted high
above me loving protection. It offers me
shade and prevents terror, evil and fear from striking me. You are my God and I will thank and praise
You for as long as is breath in my body on earth and eternally with You in
heaven – my home.
My Beloved, how often in the past my look has been exactly
like that of the Pharisee who invited You for a meal in his home. My heart was small, my mind narrow, my
vision, my spirit cold. I was full of
bigotry and self righteousness I had quite forgotten all the times I had sinned
and sometimes grievously, before my conversion.
What is truly inspiring in this encounter between the sinner and the
Pharisee is that she knew she was a great sinner, she was truly sorry, she had
a generous spirit and she was prepared to make a complete conversion. She was
not ashamed to make a public display of her sorrow. Her attitude won Your favor and Your
admiration. You saw her heart and You
granted her pardon and peace. She
received all that her heart had desired and so much more when she fell at Your
feet. Today she is a model for all
sinners who wish to repent.
The self-righteous Pharisee who was so busy nit picking in
secret thinking that no one could read his thoughts must have been certainly
been taken by surprise when he discovered that his secret thoughts were in fact
not to secret. You censured him for the
basic lack of etiquette and welcome he denied You although it was he who had invited
You to his home and he was Your host. He
must have been red-faced with shame when You showed him up before his peers and
he never forgot the lesson You taught him when You praised the sinner that he
had so vehemently despised.
No sinner is ever turned away from Your merciful and
welcoming love no matter how grave or many the sins. Our grateful response must be like this woman’s
in the Gospel. Our sorrow, repentance
and contrition must be sincere and we must be willing to make amends and turn
away from sin and from the things that lead us to sin. We must believe in faith that our sins are
forgiven and we are given an opportunity to start afresh. I too have been forgiven much may I too learn
to love You more and more each day.
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