DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS
Seek good and not evil so that you may live,and the LORD will be with you. AM 5:14
ISAIAH 65:17-21
PSALM 30:2 AND 4, 5-6, 11-12A AND 13B
JOHN 4:43-54
ISAIAH 65:17-21
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
For a people in exile who felt abandoned by God who appears to have forgotten that they are His people, His nation, chosen from among all the nations of the world to be How own, this prophecy is full of glad tidings. It promises the fulfillment of all their hopes. It assures them that God has not forgotten them and that He is about to do something new, wonderful, something never seen before.
Oftentimes we live as if the world is all there is. We forget that we are just pilgrims and that we have to walk through the valley of tears in order to reach the Promised Land. The eternal Kingdom. The place that God has prepared for us even before we were conceived.
The Kingdom of God is here among us and we would see it if we only open our eyes. You are here present in us and disguised in each of us, all we need to do is recognize You and love and serve You in our neighbor.
PSALM 30:2 AND 4, 5-6, 11-12A AND 13B
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We believe that 'this too will pass.' In the midst of our fear, sadness, and anxiety, in the midst of our pain and sufferings for our loved ones and for the world, we know that You are in control. This is a necessary chastisement. We are too greatly loved to be allowed to go our merry way and live as if God did not exist.
The Father created us to be His joy and His delight. He did not forsake us though time and time again we deliberately and willfully turned away and rejected His love and deserved to die but sent You, His beloved Son, to receive the punishment that was ours. You paid the ransom for our sin and broke the chains of slavery to sin so we could be restored to friendship with God and have a share in Your glory,
You O Lord are our Helper and You will change our mourning into dancing and we will return once again with all the fervor of our whole beings to offer You praise, adoration, thanksgiving and worship, with a heart full of love and gratitude for leading us once more from darkness to Light.
JOHN 4:43-54
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We have rejected You over and over again. The world has demanded signs and wonders, despite the greatest sign given to us, the Sign of the Cross. We have despised all that is good, holy, and pure and we have become crass and ugly. We have wallowed with the swine and fed from their trough. We have done evil and we deserve the punishment that we are now receiving.
Too great a price was paid for our salvation for us to live godless lives. Now we come before You and plead with You as the royal official did. We are sick, our children are sick, our country is sick, the nations are sick and we are faced with the peril of eternal damnation. Come Beloved, before we are lost. Yes, we deserve death but we beg You for the sake of Your sorrowful passion, to have mercy on us and bring healing to our sinful world. May we hear those grace-filled words You spoke to the poor, worried father, “You may go; your son will live.”
We believe that You are God and that one Word from You to the Father in heaven will bring us health in heart, mind, soul, body and spirit. Hear our cries O Lord and descend once more upon us that the whole world may come to know You and worship You in spirit and truth. Amen.
Seek good and not evil so that you may live,and the LORD will be with you. AM 5:14
ISAIAH 65:17-21
PSALM 30:2 AND 4, 5-6, 11-12A AND 13B
JOHN 4:43-54
ISAIAH 65:17-21
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
For a people in exile who felt abandoned by God who appears to have forgotten that they are His people, His nation, chosen from among all the nations of the world to be How own, this prophecy is full of glad tidings. It promises the fulfillment of all their hopes. It assures them that God has not forgotten them and that He is about to do something new, wonderful, something never seen before.
Oftentimes we live as if the world is all there is. We forget that we are just pilgrims and that we have to walk through the valley of tears in order to reach the Promised Land. The eternal Kingdom. The place that God has prepared for us even before we were conceived.
The Kingdom of God is here among us and we would see it if we only open our eyes. You are here present in us and disguised in each of us, all we need to do is recognize You and love and serve You in our neighbor.
PSALM 30:2 AND 4, 5-6, 11-12A AND 13B
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We believe that 'this too will pass.' In the midst of our fear, sadness, and anxiety, in the midst of our pain and sufferings for our loved ones and for the world, we know that You are in control. This is a necessary chastisement. We are too greatly loved to be allowed to go our merry way and live as if God did not exist.
The Father created us to be His joy and His delight. He did not forsake us though time and time again we deliberately and willfully turned away and rejected His love and deserved to die but sent You, His beloved Son, to receive the punishment that was ours. You paid the ransom for our sin and broke the chains of slavery to sin so we could be restored to friendship with God and have a share in Your glory,
You O Lord are our Helper and You will change our mourning into dancing and we will return once again with all the fervor of our whole beings to offer You praise, adoration, thanksgiving and worship, with a heart full of love and gratitude for leading us once more from darkness to Light.
JOHN 4:43-54
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We have rejected You over and over again. The world has demanded signs and wonders, despite the greatest sign given to us, the Sign of the Cross. We have despised all that is good, holy, and pure and we have become crass and ugly. We have wallowed with the swine and fed from their trough. We have done evil and we deserve the punishment that we are now receiving.
Too great a price was paid for our salvation for us to live godless lives. Now we come before You and plead with You as the royal official did. We are sick, our children are sick, our country is sick, the nations are sick and we are faced with the peril of eternal damnation. Come Beloved, before we are lost. Yes, we deserve death but we beg You for the sake of Your sorrowful passion, to have mercy on us and bring healing to our sinful world. May we hear those grace-filled words You spoke to the poor, worried father, “You may go; your son will live.”
We believe that You are God and that one Word from You to the Father in heaven will bring us health in heart, mind, soul, body and spirit. Hear our cries O Lord and descend once more upon us that the whole world may come to know You and worship You in spirit and truth. Amen.
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