DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS
Your word, O Lord, is truth;
consecrate us in the truth. Jn 17:17B, 17A
Romans 8:12-17, Psalm 62:2, 4, 6-7, 20-21,
Luke 13:10-17
Romans 8:12-17
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Clearly discipleship is not an easy road, nor is it a road well-traveled. However, if we are Your brothers and sisters, and we are, then we are no long subject to the flesh but as co-heirs with You, we have the power of the Holy Spirit to put to death the clamor of the flesh and live.
You gave us the Holy Spirit as Your Gift to us before You ascended to Your Father in heaven. It is the Spirit that enables us not only to call God Father, Abba, as You taught us, but to know that we are truly His children because You bridged the chasm that was created between Him and us through the sin of our first parents.
We are no longer children of Adam but children of God and heirs to the Kingdom of God. Your Holy Spirit within us makes us witnesses to the Truth that indeed we are children of light and truth because You are Light and Truth and we are imbued with Your Spirit. In this world, You have warned us, we will be persecuted because we do not belong to the world, but to You, and we are to be without fear for You my Beloved have overcome the world and we too have overcome it with the help of Your Spirit who is at work in us.
Psalm 62:2, 4, 6-7, 20-2
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Truly You have risen from the dead and Your enemies are scattered. They flee before Your Holy Presence and we who belong to You exult. We rejoice and are glad for God,our God with us. We have a God who saves. A God who is kind, and gentle, who cares for those whom the world prefers to forget, to ignore, to take advantage of believing that they are powerless. However, they are ignorant of the truth that they have a powerful adversary fighting against them - God Himself aligns with the widow, the orphan, the outcast, and fights their battles on their behalf. God vindicates those who trust in Him, have faith in Him. The victory belongs to God and to His people.
Luke 13:10-17
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Today's Gospel reading sums up what was said in the first reading and the psalm. We thee this woman crippled so horribly she is bent double. She has been this way for eighteen years. She suffered because she was unable to stand erect and view life around her as it ought to be viewed. Sin cripples our spirit and we are unable to see as God sees. Our vision is compromised because our vision is contorted. There is a remedy for sin if we are prepared to take it. You have made the Sacrament of Reconciliation available to us. All we need do is to approach You in this Sacrament and You will lay Your hands on us and heal us in every way.
Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.
And a woman was there who for eighteen years
had been crippled by a spirit;
she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.
When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,
"Woman, you are set free of your infirmity."
He laid his hands on her,
and she at once stood up straight and glorified God.
But the leader of the synagogue,
indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath,
said to the crowd in reply,
"There are six days when work should be done.
Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day."
The Lord said to him in reply, "Hypocrites!
Does not each one of you on the sabbath
untie his ox or his ass from the manger
and lead it out for watering?
This daughter of Abraham,
whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now,
ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day
from this bondage?"
When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated;
and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him.
Your word, O Lord, is truth;
consecrate us in the truth. Jn 17:17B, 17A
Romans 8:12-17, Psalm 62:2, 4, 6-7, 20-21,
Luke 13:10-17
Romans 8:12-17
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Clearly discipleship is not an easy road, nor is it a road well-traveled. However, if we are Your brothers and sisters, and we are, then we are no long subject to the flesh but as co-heirs with You, we have the power of the Holy Spirit to put to death the clamor of the flesh and live.
You gave us the Holy Spirit as Your Gift to us before You ascended to Your Father in heaven. It is the Spirit that enables us not only to call God Father, Abba, as You taught us, but to know that we are truly His children because You bridged the chasm that was created between Him and us through the sin of our first parents.
We are no longer children of Adam but children of God and heirs to the Kingdom of God. Your Holy Spirit within us makes us witnesses to the Truth that indeed we are children of light and truth because You are Light and Truth and we are imbued with Your Spirit. In this world, You have warned us, we will be persecuted because we do not belong to the world, but to You, and we are to be without fear for You my Beloved have overcome the world and we too have overcome it with the help of Your Spirit who is at work in us.
Psalm 62:2, 4, 6-7, 20-2
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Truly You have risen from the dead and Your enemies are scattered. They flee before Your Holy Presence and we who belong to You exult. We rejoice and are glad for God,our God with us. We have a God who saves. A God who is kind, and gentle, who cares for those whom the world prefers to forget, to ignore, to take advantage of believing that they are powerless. However, they are ignorant of the truth that they have a powerful adversary fighting against them - God Himself aligns with the widow, the orphan, the outcast, and fights their battles on their behalf. God vindicates those who trust in Him, have faith in Him. The victory belongs to God and to His people.
Luke 13:10-17
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
Today's Gospel reading sums up what was said in the first reading and the psalm. We thee this woman crippled so horribly she is bent double. She has been this way for eighteen years. She suffered because she was unable to stand erect and view life around her as it ought to be viewed. Sin cripples our spirit and we are unable to see as God sees. Our vision is compromised because our vision is contorted. There is a remedy for sin if we are prepared to take it. You have made the Sacrament of Reconciliation available to us. All we need do is to approach You in this Sacrament and You will lay Your hands on us and heal us in every way.
Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath.
And a woman was there who for eighteen years
had been crippled by a spirit;
she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect.
When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said,
"Woman, you are set free of your infirmity."
He laid his hands on her,
and she at once stood up straight and glorified God.
But the leader of the synagogue,
indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath,
said to the crowd in reply,
"There are six days when work should be done.
Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day."
The Lord said to him in reply, "Hypocrites!
Does not each one of you on the sabbath
untie his ox or his ass from the manger
and lead it out for watering?
This daughter of Abraham,
whom Satan has bound for eighteen years now,
ought she not to have been set free on the sabbath day
from this bondage?"
When he said this, all his adversaries were humiliated;
and the whole crowd rejoiced at all the splendid deeds done by him.
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