DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS
I consider all things so much rubbish
that I may gain Christ and be found in him. Phil 3:8-9
Romans 6:19-23, Psalm 1:1-4, 5, Luke 12:49-53
Romans 6:19-23
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
St. Paul keeps hammering home the fact that as long as we are slaves of the flesh we are slaves to sin. This slavery has the power to strip us of our image and likeness to God. We are shorn of our identity as children of God and we become the tools of evil. When we become slaves of the dark that has the power to drag us into the mire we lose our peace and our joy.
We were created for joy. We were created to strive after the holiness and perfection of God our Father, for we are His children, created to share in His glory and in Your inheritance. However when we give ourselves over to sin, to licentiousness, to willfully choosing the way that is broad, and easy, we cut ourselves from the source of light and life.
Your Word is clear. If we choose sin we choose death but when we choose to allow the Spirit of God to help us to walk as children of the light we receive the gift of eternal life in You.
Psalm 1:1-4, 5
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
God our Father created us to know Him, to Love Him, to serve Him and to be happy with Him in this life and eternally in the next. How do we do this Beloved? How can we fulfill the destiny for which we are created? This is not possible for us - as You clearly told Peter. We cannot save ourselves. We need You and we need Your Holy Spirit. Both have been given to us. You gave Yourself to us completely. You emptied Yourself for us in order that we may be filled with Your life. You have given us a full measure of Your Holy Spirit, without whom it would be impossible to please God.
As members of Your Body, grafted to You in Baptism, we are now a new creation. In choosing to turn away from sin that leads to death, in closing our ears to the siren call of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and in zealously pursuing the things that lead to life, we do not struggle alone. You Yourself strengthen us, feed us, pour grace upon grace into our souls, and live in us. We are like trees planted beside running water and the fruits of the Holy Spirit grow in abundance because He ensures that we yield fruit in season and out of season fruit that will last.
Luke 12:49-53
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Where there is an absence of love, there is an absence of God.
You prayed a most heartfelt prayer to the Father before You accomplished the purpose for which He had sent You. You prayed that we may be one just as You and the Father are one. You prayed for unity. You came to bring peace. Peace in our hearts, in our homes, in our neighborhoods, in our nations, in the world. However, this peace is only possible when we humbly and sincerely render to God our Father the things that are His. We cannot usurp the authority of God. We cannot pick and choose which of God's laws we will obey, and which we will not.
Today the world has set itself up as the sole arbiter of how we live our lives. It dictates what is right and wrong. It has a different set of rules which are fluid and keep changing. The Truth is unchanging. The Truth is immutable. Because we do not consider it to be so we have the world at each other's throats for each believes that what they have is the truth which changes from person to person. This is the cause of division, of hatred, of evil. When we give ourselves over to the worship of our senses and we sacrifice our identity as children of God, we become idolaters of the worst kind.
Thank You Beloved, for not giving up on us. Thank You for remaining with us just as You promised. In the end Your Sacred Heart will triumph.
Jesus said to his disciples:
"I have come to set the earth on fire,
and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,
and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided,
three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son
and a son against his father,
a mother against her daughter
and a daughter against her mother,
a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
I consider all things so much rubbish
that I may gain Christ and be found in him. Phil 3:8-9
Romans 6:19-23, Psalm 1:1-4, 5, Luke 12:49-53
Romans 6:19-23
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
St. Paul keeps hammering home the fact that as long as we are slaves of the flesh we are slaves to sin. This slavery has the power to strip us of our image and likeness to God. We are shorn of our identity as children of God and we become the tools of evil. When we become slaves of the dark that has the power to drag us into the mire we lose our peace and our joy.
We were created for joy. We were created to strive after the holiness and perfection of God our Father, for we are His children, created to share in His glory and in Your inheritance. However when we give ourselves over to sin, to licentiousness, to willfully choosing the way that is broad, and easy, we cut ourselves from the source of light and life.
Your Word is clear. If we choose sin we choose death but when we choose to allow the Spirit of God to help us to walk as children of the light we receive the gift of eternal life in You.
Psalm 1:1-4, 5
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
God our Father created us to know Him, to Love Him, to serve Him and to be happy with Him in this life and eternally in the next. How do we do this Beloved? How can we fulfill the destiny for which we are created? This is not possible for us - as You clearly told Peter. We cannot save ourselves. We need You and we need Your Holy Spirit. Both have been given to us. You gave Yourself to us completely. You emptied Yourself for us in order that we may be filled with Your life. You have given us a full measure of Your Holy Spirit, without whom it would be impossible to please God.
As members of Your Body, grafted to You in Baptism, we are now a new creation. In choosing to turn away from sin that leads to death, in closing our ears to the siren call of the world, the flesh, and the devil, and in zealously pursuing the things that lead to life, we do not struggle alone. You Yourself strengthen us, feed us, pour grace upon grace into our souls, and live in us. We are like trees planted beside running water and the fruits of the Holy Spirit grow in abundance because He ensures that we yield fruit in season and out of season fruit that will last.
Luke 12:49-53
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Where there is an absence of love, there is an absence of God.
You prayed a most heartfelt prayer to the Father before You accomplished the purpose for which He had sent You. You prayed that we may be one just as You and the Father are one. You prayed for unity. You came to bring peace. Peace in our hearts, in our homes, in our neighborhoods, in our nations, in the world. However, this peace is only possible when we humbly and sincerely render to God our Father the things that are His. We cannot usurp the authority of God. We cannot pick and choose which of God's laws we will obey, and which we will not.
Today the world has set itself up as the sole arbiter of how we live our lives. It dictates what is right and wrong. It has a different set of rules which are fluid and keep changing. The Truth is unchanging. The Truth is immutable. Because we do not consider it to be so we have the world at each other's throats for each believes that what they have is the truth which changes from person to person. This is the cause of division, of hatred, of evil. When we give ourselves over to the worship of our senses and we sacrifice our identity as children of God, we become idolaters of the worst kind.
Thank You Beloved, for not giving up on us. Thank You for remaining with us just as You promised. In the end Your Sacred Heart will triumph.
Jesus said to his disciples:
"I have come to set the earth on fire,
and how I wish it were already blazing!
There is a baptism with which I must be baptized,
and how great is my anguish until it is accomplished!
Do you think that I have come to establish peace on the earth?
No, I tell you, but rather division.
From now on a household of five will be divided,
three against two and two against three;
a father will be divided against his son
and a son against his father,
a mother against her daughter
and a daughter against her mother,
a mother-in-law against her daughter-in-law
and a daughter-in-law against her mother-in-law."
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