DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS
Blessed are those who hear the word of God
and observe it. Lk 11:28
Ezra 6:7-8, 12, 14-20, Psalm 122:1-5, Luke 8:19-21
Ezra 6:7-8, 12, 14-20
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
The excitement of the people of God who were set free and allowed to return home and not just to return but were given all they needed to rebuild the Temple, was something that they had not even dreamed in their most extravagant dreams.
The way of the Lord is truly beyond our limited capability to comprehend for Your ways are not ours, Your thoughts are not our thoughts. You do the impossible. You have the power to change the hearts of men and women, and change the course of history. Thank You for being so intimately concerned with the world and with us. If it were not so the Father would not have sent You into the world to redeem us who had forsaken the way of the Lord.
King Cyrus and king Darius could not do enough to make the way of the people of Israel joyful and easy. They left as captives, they were exiled far away from all they loved, for years they endured hostility and hardship, they were not permitted to worship You nor could they offer sacrifices on the days prescribed, for they were far away from the Temple in Jerusalem. Their hearts longed for You and yearned to return home. It is through sorrow that You purify our hearts and You teach us what is truly important for our salvation.
Thank You for coming to the world and for revealing to us that the Kingdom of God is already among us, it is in our hearts, and that we are called to build it and adorn it as long as we live. Our lives must be a celebration of Your love for us. We must live together in harmony with one another so the world looks at us in amazement and say, "Look at those Christians, how they love one another."
Psalm 122:1-5
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Each time we come together to praise You as God's community of love, we ought to rejoice and celebrate for we are going into the house of God, we enter the gate of heaven, we are before Him, the Lord through whom the heavens, the earth and all that is was created.
Each time we come in Your Holy Presence we ought to be gloriously alive to the truth, that God so loved the world that He sent His only, most beloved Son, to become the means by which all are saved.
Each time we set foot into Your house, we ought to become aware that we are the most privileged people in all the world for we are actually in the Present of the Most High, Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier and that God will actually become Bread in order to come into the hearts of those He has saved. Without this food we would perish by the wayside in this valley of tears.
Thank You Lord for all You have done for us and grant us the necessary graced in order that we may someday come to that place created for us ever since the foundation of the world.
Luke 8:19-21
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Isn't it amazing how obtuse some Christians are when they read this passage and believe that You are somehow denigrating Your Mother. They are positively gleeful as they insist that not only did You belittle her but they actually cast a slur on her perpetual virginity by their assertion that this verse proves that You had brothers in the flesh.
You said, "Let those who have ears to hear, hear." Thank You for the One, Holy, Catholic, Church who for 2000 years has contemplated the Word and has understood that here You are giving Your Mother the highest praise and You invite all of us who are Your brother and sisters to imitate her, the disciple par excellence when You say, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it." Who more perfectly of all the men and women who ever lived, will ever hear and act on the Word of God to whom she gave flesh, whom she nourished with her body, and whom she adored, loved, and served all the days of her life, than she did?
Blessed are those who hear the word of God
and observe it. Lk 11:28
Ezra 6:7-8, 12, 14-20, Psalm 122:1-5, Luke 8:19-21
Ezra 6:7-8, 12, 14-20
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
The excitement of the people of God who were set free and allowed to return home and not just to return but were given all they needed to rebuild the Temple, was something that they had not even dreamed in their most extravagant dreams.
The way of the Lord is truly beyond our limited capability to comprehend for Your ways are not ours, Your thoughts are not our thoughts. You do the impossible. You have the power to change the hearts of men and women, and change the course of history. Thank You for being so intimately concerned with the world and with us. If it were not so the Father would not have sent You into the world to redeem us who had forsaken the way of the Lord.
King Cyrus and king Darius could not do enough to make the way of the people of Israel joyful and easy. They left as captives, they were exiled far away from all they loved, for years they endured hostility and hardship, they were not permitted to worship You nor could they offer sacrifices on the days prescribed, for they were far away from the Temple in Jerusalem. Their hearts longed for You and yearned to return home. It is through sorrow that You purify our hearts and You teach us what is truly important for our salvation.
Thank You for coming to the world and for revealing to us that the Kingdom of God is already among us, it is in our hearts, and that we are called to build it and adorn it as long as we live. Our lives must be a celebration of Your love for us. We must live together in harmony with one another so the world looks at us in amazement and say, "Look at those Christians, how they love one another."
Psalm 122:1-5
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Each time we come together to praise You as God's community of love, we ought to rejoice and celebrate for we are going into the house of God, we enter the gate of heaven, we are before Him, the Lord through whom the heavens, the earth and all that is was created.
Each time we come in Your Holy Presence we ought to be gloriously alive to the truth, that God so loved the world that He sent His only, most beloved Son, to become the means by which all are saved.
Each time we set foot into Your house, we ought to become aware that we are the most privileged people in all the world for we are actually in the Present of the Most High, Creator, Redeemer and Sanctifier and that God will actually become Bread in order to come into the hearts of those He has saved. Without this food we would perish by the wayside in this valley of tears.
Thank You Lord for all You have done for us and grant us the necessary graced in order that we may someday come to that place created for us ever since the foundation of the world.
Luke 8:19-21
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Isn't it amazing how obtuse some Christians are when they read this passage and believe that You are somehow denigrating Your Mother. They are positively gleeful as they insist that not only did You belittle her but they actually cast a slur on her perpetual virginity by their assertion that this verse proves that You had brothers in the flesh.
You said, "Let those who have ears to hear, hear." Thank You for the One, Holy, Catholic, Church who for 2000 years has contemplated the Word and has understood that here You are giving Your Mother the highest praise and You invite all of us who are Your brother and sisters to imitate her, the disciple par excellence when You say, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and act on it." Who more perfectly of all the men and women who ever lived, will ever hear and act on the Word of God to whom she gave flesh, whom she nourished with her body, and whom she adored, loved, and served all the days of her life, than she did?
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