DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS
If today you hear his voice,
harden not your hearts. PS 95:8
HOSEA 6:1-6
PSALM 51:3-4, 18-20-21AB
LUKE 18:9-14
HOSEA 6:1-6
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
How is it that we who are created in Your image and likeness are so hard of heart? How is it that we so easily forget Your innumerable kindnesses to us and turn our faces like flint away from You? Yet Your love never wavers. You never cease to invite us back to You as tenderly as a mother calling her wayward child. How is it that we are so blind and so hard of understanding? The truth is we need You. We could not draw a single breath without Your aid and yet our hearts are stubborn.
Finally, in this time of affliction, You have our attention. We hear the voice of the prophet. We return to You with humble hearts and contrite spirits. We believe that You alone can heal us. The chastisement visited on us is well-deserved. All of us have sinned, Lord, but now we come back to You.
Do not withhold Your love from us even though we are undeserving of it. We come before You in sackcloth and ashes and confess that we have sinned grievously. Do not punish us as we deserve. For the sake of Your sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.
PSALM 51:3-4, 18-20-21AB
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We cry out to You for mercy but we have shown no mercy to those less fortunate than ourselves. We have been indifferent to the misery of the poor, the marginalized, the lonely, the sick, the suffering, the forgotten. We have cocooned ourselves in the softness and ease of material things. We have frittered away endless hours on entertaining ourselves and spent very little, if any, time in communion with You, our Creator, Redeemer and Lord.
Wash away our iniquity and cleanse us of our sins. Grant O Lord that we can return to our churches to offer once again the sacrifice of our lives in union with the one, holy, and perfect Sacrifice offered on Calvary. Pity us Lord and forgive us for the sake of Your sorrowful passion. Amen.
LUKE 18:9-14
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
So many of us like the Pharisee are convinced of our own righteousness. We make a show of our piety. We believe that because we are in a lot of committees and have prominent places in them that we are somehow better than everyone else. We conform outwardly in every way but our hearts and our interior lives are black with sin.
We are proud and boastful of the gifts given to us to serve in love. We are haughty with the poor and believe that our many works done so others can see and praise us, makes us better than everyone else.
To us You say, "I do not know you." But to the one who strikes his breast in humility and confesses his sins You say, "Go in peace, your sins are forgiven."
Beloved Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine.
If today you hear his voice,
harden not your hearts. PS 95:8
HOSEA 6:1-6
PSALM 51:3-4, 18-20-21AB
LUKE 18:9-14
HOSEA 6:1-6
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
How is it that we who are created in Your image and likeness are so hard of heart? How is it that we so easily forget Your innumerable kindnesses to us and turn our faces like flint away from You? Yet Your love never wavers. You never cease to invite us back to You as tenderly as a mother calling her wayward child. How is it that we are so blind and so hard of understanding? The truth is we need You. We could not draw a single breath without Your aid and yet our hearts are stubborn.
Finally, in this time of affliction, You have our attention. We hear the voice of the prophet. We return to You with humble hearts and contrite spirits. We believe that You alone can heal us. The chastisement visited on us is well-deserved. All of us have sinned, Lord, but now we come back to You.
Do not withhold Your love from us even though we are undeserving of it. We come before You in sackcloth and ashes and confess that we have sinned grievously. Do not punish us as we deserve. For the sake of Your sorrowful passion have mercy on us and on the whole world.
PSALM 51:3-4, 18-20-21AB
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We cry out to You for mercy but we have shown no mercy to those less fortunate than ourselves. We have been indifferent to the misery of the poor, the marginalized, the lonely, the sick, the suffering, the forgotten. We have cocooned ourselves in the softness and ease of material things. We have frittered away endless hours on entertaining ourselves and spent very little, if any, time in communion with You, our Creator, Redeemer and Lord.
Wash away our iniquity and cleanse us of our sins. Grant O Lord that we can return to our churches to offer once again the sacrifice of our lives in union with the one, holy, and perfect Sacrifice offered on Calvary. Pity us Lord and forgive us for the sake of Your sorrowful passion. Amen.
LUKE 18:9-14
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
So many of us like the Pharisee are convinced of our own righteousness. We make a show of our piety. We believe that because we are in a lot of committees and have prominent places in them that we are somehow better than everyone else. We conform outwardly in every way but our hearts and our interior lives are black with sin.
We are proud and boastful of the gifts given to us to serve in love. We are haughty with the poor and believe that our many works done so others can see and praise us, makes us better than everyone else.
To us You say, "I do not know you." But to the one who strikes his breast in humility and confesses his sins You say, "Go in peace, your sins are forgiven."
Beloved Jesus, meek and humble of heart, make my heart like unto Thine.
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