DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS
Your word, O Lord, is truth:
consecrate us in the truth. Jn 17:17B, 17A
1 Kings 10:1-10, Psalm 37:5-6, 30-31, 39-40,
Mark 7:14-23
1 Kings 10:1-10
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
King Solomon was endowed with wisdom, riches, power, and fame. Every material luxury was his given to him by God because in his youth, in humility, when asked to name what he desired most and it would be given to him, he asked for wisdom. Pleased with his request God who gives only as He knows how, gave him wisdom and everything else besides. It is difficult, while in the flesh, to resist temptation. Original sin makes us vulnerable and we all have weaknesses to which we succumb besides our best efforts. Solomon was no different. He began by pleasing God but in the end he too disobeyed.
In baptism we are clothed in the garments of righteousness. We receive every grace and favor and we are make children of the Most High God. Not even Solomon was arrayed as we are when we are anointed as priest, prophet, and king for we are grafted into Your Body, become one with You and we receive a share in all that is Yours. But original sin has rendered us weak and in times of temptation we often succumb to the wiles of the enemy losing much of the spiritual riches heaped upon us. Unlike Solomon though we have the Sacraments which enable us to begin anew over and over and over again and the Father never tires of showing us mercy over and over and over again and not only restores all we had lost but blesses us even more extravagantly because that's how the Father loves, generously and without measure.
Psalm 37:5-6, 30-31, 39-40
Commit to the LORD your way;
trust in him, and he will act.
He will make justice dawn for you like the light;
bright as the noonday shall be your vindication.
R. The mouth of the just murmurs wisdom.
The mouth of the just man tells of wisdom
and his tongue utters what is right.
The law of his God is in his heart,
and his steps do not falter.
R. The mouth of the just murmurs wisdom.
The salvation of the just is from the LORD;
he is their refuge in time of distress.
And the LORD helps them and delivers them;
he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.
Truly Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
You are our Rock, our Hiding Place, our help in times of trouble. You send us Your Holy Spirit to be our Paraclete, He helps us to pray, He inspires us, comforts us, encourages us and lives in us. He hears our prayers and grants our petitions. He empowers us. He pours grace into our hearts so we can do battle against the concupiscence of our flesh and be victorious. He keeps our steps firm and if we falter He holds us up so we will not stumble. But should we fall, He encourages us to rise up again, come to God again with humble and contrite hearts and be renewed and strengthened so we can rise once more on the wings of the eagle and find once more our rest in Your Sacred Heart.
Mark 7:14-23
Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them,
“Hear me, all of you, and understand.
Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person;
but the things that come out from within are what defile.”
When he got home away from the crowd
his disciples questioned him about the parable.
He said to them,
“Are even you likewise without understanding?
Do you not realize that everything
that goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
since it enters not the heart but the stomach
and passes out into the latrine?”
(Thus he declared all foods clean.)
“But what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him.
From within the man, from his heart,
come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder,
adultery, greed, malice, deceit,
licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.
All these evils come from within and they defile.”
Your word, O Lord, is truth:
consecrate us in the truth. Jn 17:17B, 17A
1 Kings 10:1-10, Psalm 37:5-6, 30-31, 39-40,
Mark 7:14-23
1 Kings 10:1-10
Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
King Solomon was endowed with wisdom, riches, power, and fame. Every material luxury was his given to him by God because in his youth, in humility, when asked to name what he desired most and it would be given to him, he asked for wisdom. Pleased with his request God who gives only as He knows how, gave him wisdom and everything else besides. It is difficult, while in the flesh, to resist temptation. Original sin makes us vulnerable and we all have weaknesses to which we succumb besides our best efforts. Solomon was no different. He began by pleasing God but in the end he too disobeyed.
In baptism we are clothed in the garments of righteousness. We receive every grace and favor and we are make children of the Most High God. Not even Solomon was arrayed as we are when we are anointed as priest, prophet, and king for we are grafted into Your Body, become one with You and we receive a share in all that is Yours. But original sin has rendered us weak and in times of temptation we often succumb to the wiles of the enemy losing much of the spiritual riches heaped upon us. Unlike Solomon though we have the Sacraments which enable us to begin anew over and over and over again and the Father never tires of showing us mercy over and over and over again and not only restores all we had lost but blesses us even more extravagantly because that's how the Father loves, generously and without measure.
Psalm 37:5-6, 30-31, 39-40
Commit to the LORD your way;
trust in him, and he will act.
He will make justice dawn for you like the light;
bright as the noonday shall be your vindication.
R. The mouth of the just murmurs wisdom.
The mouth of the just man tells of wisdom
and his tongue utters what is right.
The law of his God is in his heart,
and his steps do not falter.
R. The mouth of the just murmurs wisdom.
The salvation of the just is from the LORD;
he is their refuge in time of distress.
And the LORD helps them and delivers them;
he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.
Truly Dear Love, Beloved of my soul,
You are our Rock, our Hiding Place, our help in times of trouble. You send us Your Holy Spirit to be our Paraclete, He helps us to pray, He inspires us, comforts us, encourages us and lives in us. He hears our prayers and grants our petitions. He empowers us. He pours grace into our hearts so we can do battle against the concupiscence of our flesh and be victorious. He keeps our steps firm and if we falter He holds us up so we will not stumble. But should we fall, He encourages us to rise up again, come to God again with humble and contrite hearts and be renewed and strengthened so we can rise once more on the wings of the eagle and find once more our rest in Your Sacred Heart.
Mark 7:14-23
Jesus summoned the crowd again and said to them,
“Hear me, all of you, and understand.
Nothing that enters one from outside can defile that person;
but the things that come out from within are what defile.”
When he got home away from the crowd
his disciples questioned him about the parable.
He said to them,
“Are even you likewise without understanding?
Do you not realize that everything
that goes into a person from outside cannot defile,
since it enters not the heart but the stomach
and passes out into the latrine?”
(Thus he declared all foods clean.)
“But what comes out of the man, that is what defiles him.
From within the man, from his heart,
come evil thoughts, unchastity, theft, murder,
adultery, greed, malice, deceit,
licentiousness, envy, blasphemy, arrogance, folly.
All these evils come from within and they defile.”
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