DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS
Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart and yield a harvest through perseverance. LK 8:15
JEREMIAH 11:18-20
PSALM7:2-3,9BC-12
JOHN 7:40-53
JEREMIAH 11:18-20
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
Once again, we see in the life of the prophet Jeremiah a fulfillment of prophecy in You. Your enemies came from within, they were Your people, Your friends, those who knew You and heard Your teachings and witnessed marvelous miracles. They all knew You were innocent even Pilate, and yet he washed his hands of the great treachery believing it absolved him for his part in it.
Like the prophet Isaiah, Jeremiah presents us with an image of You as the gentle lamb led to the slaughter. It is an invitation to us to imitate You when we are persecuted for our faith in You. The world has always hated that which is good, and those who held a mirror to its depravity and its sins. It is so today as well. The Church holds up the mirror of truth to the world today. She is hated viciously for her uncompromising stand against those who call good evil and evil good. The world has always sought to erase You and Your Name and they have not succeeded in 21 centuries yet it does not stop the Enemy from seeking new ways to do so in every age.
You have taught us that the only vengeance acceptable against those who hate the Church is love. We are called to love as You did. Only through this weapon will be world be evangelized.
PSALM 7:2-3, 9BC-12
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We thank You for being our refuge. We thank You for saving us. We thank You that we can run and hide in You when the Tempter pursues us like a rabid dog in order to tear us apart. If we are innocent, we need never be afraid in the face of evil for we have You for our Friend, our Protector, and our God. Keep us safe in Your love until the end.
JOHN 7:40-53
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
All those who seek the truth, all who pursue it relentlessly, will find it for You are the Truth and You long to reveal Yourself to all who seek You with sincerity of heart. The people of Your time were confused. They knew the prophecy that the Christ would be a descendant of David and would come from Bethlehem, the city of David but this knowledge did not lead them to pursue the truth in seeking answers to their questions about You. They wondered. The talked about it and argued about it but that’s all they did they did not seek to know if all that people said about You was true. They denied You because they refused to seek the truth for themselves but were content in accepting as true what others said about You.
Each one of us is called to make our own personal journey in the pursuit of truth with an open mind and a sincere heart and when we do, we will say as so many have done, “No one ever spoke like You.” The Pharisees were blind with murderous rage because they saw You as a threat to the comfortable lives they had made for themselves preying on the fear of the poor. They refused to listen to the voice of reason and scorned Nicodemus. Complacent in their collective ignorance they went home undisturbed in their conscience. So is the world today and there are many ‘good Christians’ who are quite happy with what they have rather than risking everything to delve deeper in order to encounter the fullness of Truth.
Blessed are they who have kept the word with a generous heart and yield a harvest through perseverance. LK 8:15
JEREMIAH 11:18-20
PSALM7:2-3,9BC-12
JOHN 7:40-53
JEREMIAH 11:18-20
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
Once again, we see in the life of the prophet Jeremiah a fulfillment of prophecy in You. Your enemies came from within, they were Your people, Your friends, those who knew You and heard Your teachings and witnessed marvelous miracles. They all knew You were innocent even Pilate, and yet he washed his hands of the great treachery believing it absolved him for his part in it.
Like the prophet Isaiah, Jeremiah presents us with an image of You as the gentle lamb led to the slaughter. It is an invitation to us to imitate You when we are persecuted for our faith in You. The world has always hated that which is good, and those who held a mirror to its depravity and its sins. It is so today as well. The Church holds up the mirror of truth to the world today. She is hated viciously for her uncompromising stand against those who call good evil and evil good. The world has always sought to erase You and Your Name and they have not succeeded in 21 centuries yet it does not stop the Enemy from seeking new ways to do so in every age.
You have taught us that the only vengeance acceptable against those who hate the Church is love. We are called to love as You did. Only through this weapon will be world be evangelized.
PSALM 7:2-3, 9BC-12
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We thank You for being our refuge. We thank You for saving us. We thank You that we can run and hide in You when the Tempter pursues us like a rabid dog in order to tear us apart. If we are innocent, we need never be afraid in the face of evil for we have You for our Friend, our Protector, and our God. Keep us safe in Your love until the end.
JOHN 7:40-53
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
All those who seek the truth, all who pursue it relentlessly, will find it for You are the Truth and You long to reveal Yourself to all who seek You with sincerity of heart. The people of Your time were confused. They knew the prophecy that the Christ would be a descendant of David and would come from Bethlehem, the city of David but this knowledge did not lead them to pursue the truth in seeking answers to their questions about You. They wondered. The talked about it and argued about it but that’s all they did they did not seek to know if all that people said about You was true. They denied You because they refused to seek the truth for themselves but were content in accepting as true what others said about You.
Each one of us is called to make our own personal journey in the pursuit of truth with an open mind and a sincere heart and when we do, we will say as so many have done, “No one ever spoke like You.” The Pharisees were blind with murderous rage because they saw You as a threat to the comfortable lives they had made for themselves preying on the fear of the poor. They refused to listen to the voice of reason and scorned Nicodemus. Complacent in their collective ignorance they went home undisturbed in their conscience. So is the world today and there are many ‘good Christians’ who are quite happy with what they have rather than risking everything to delve deeper in order to encounter the fullness of Truth.
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