DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS
Hail to you, our King;
you alone are compassionate with our faults.
ISAIAH 42:1-7
PSALM 27:1-3, 13-14
JOHN 12:1-11
ISAIAH 42:1-7
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
Anyone who reads the Old Testament and does not read the New and vice versa are like those who are both blind and deaf. Neither makes perfect and logical sense without the aid of the other. We need both. Just as You said, we need to search both the old and the new, we must be like a householder who brings both out from his storehouse treasures.
In the light of the Gospels, these verses from the Old Testament taken from the prophet Isaiah shine a radiant spotlight on You. If we only search the pages of the Old Testament in the hope of finding You we would be searching as one in a mist only when we read both will we begin to see that everything that was hinted at, foretold, and promised in the Old is fulfilled to perfection in the New.
Thank You Beloved Jesus for the Church who gave us the Scriptures. Thank You for her authority, guided and inspired by the Holy Spirit that enables her to decide which of the Sacred Writings were authentic. Thank You for Peter and his successors who alone have the authority to interpret the Scripture for the Apostles walked with You, talked with You, lived with You for three years. You kept Your promise that You would fill them with Your Holy Spirit so that they would remember everything. Much is not written down, for as St. John tells us the whole world couldn't contain them. Sacred Tradition, safeguarded by the Church is the Treasure that will be preserved and taught along with Sacred Scripture, without error until You return. Nothing will be lost, nothing will be added, nothing will grow stale and tired but will always be alive, fresh, and new - You guarantee it and all generations who follow can count on it. The Holy Spirit dwells in fullness in the Church You founded and so does Truth, Life, and Light.
I formed you, and set you
as a covenant of the people,
a light for the nations,
To open the eyes of the blind,
to bring out prisoners from confinement,
and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.
PSALM 27:1-3, 13-14
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
While the world lives in anxiety and fear, doubt and anger, helplessness and foreboding, the psalmist in today's Liturgy re-ignites our hope and our confidence in God who is our Creator, our Redeemer, and Our Consoler, the Triune God.
You O Lord are our light, our salvation, our refuge and our stronghold - there is no place for fear in love.
Even though the Enemy has encamped against us we know we can trust You.
Time will prove yet again that You have the power to draw immense beauty and good from our present sufferings. We wait on You, Beloved with courage, faith, hope, and trust.
JOHN 12:1-11
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
John the evangelist lays before us the different responses of people who knew You. After the miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead, there could be no doubt in anyone's mind that You were just who You said You were, the Son of God.
Mary's extravagant gesture in pouring out the expensive perfume over Your feet is a symbol of giving You the best of what we have. It is response of complete and utter surrender to Your love. This is the kind of disciple that we are all called to be.
The world is full of people like Judas. These are people of the flesh - they cannot see beyond the physical, the creature comforts, the immediate gratification of the greedy, selfish impulse no matter the cost. They are hand-wringing poseurs who pretend, as Judas did, to have compassion. They are stupid enough to believe that those around them are taken in. St. John puts paid to such blindness for he points out what they all knew about Judas. He did not care about the poor but was a thief, he held the money bag and would steal the contributions from it.
Then we have the large crowd - many are there because they are curious, it gives them something to talk about. Some are sincere and want to know more so they can understand better. Then there are those whose only response to the true, the good, the beautiful is to destroy it and to wipe it off the face of the earth. They are hypocrites whose evil is hidden behind a facade of flaccid goodwill to all. These are the most dangerous. These are the ones who are lock-step with the devil and they fill the world. Thankfully, Beloved, You have proved that You are the Light of the world and darkness will never overcome the Light.
Hail to you, our King;
you alone are compassionate with our faults.
ISAIAH 42:1-7
PSALM 27:1-3, 13-14
JOHN 12:1-11
ISAIAH 42:1-7
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
Anyone who reads the Old Testament and does not read the New and vice versa are like those who are both blind and deaf. Neither makes perfect and logical sense without the aid of the other. We need both. Just as You said, we need to search both the old and the new, we must be like a householder who brings both out from his storehouse treasures.
In the light of the Gospels, these verses from the Old Testament taken from the prophet Isaiah shine a radiant spotlight on You. If we only search the pages of the Old Testament in the hope of finding You we would be searching as one in a mist only when we read both will we begin to see that everything that was hinted at, foretold, and promised in the Old is fulfilled to perfection in the New.
Thank You Beloved Jesus for the Church who gave us the Scriptures. Thank You for her authority, guided and inspired by the Holy Spirit that enables her to decide which of the Sacred Writings were authentic. Thank You for Peter and his successors who alone have the authority to interpret the Scripture for the Apostles walked with You, talked with You, lived with You for three years. You kept Your promise that You would fill them with Your Holy Spirit so that they would remember everything. Much is not written down, for as St. John tells us the whole world couldn't contain them. Sacred Tradition, safeguarded by the Church is the Treasure that will be preserved and taught along with Sacred Scripture, without error until You return. Nothing will be lost, nothing will be added, nothing will grow stale and tired but will always be alive, fresh, and new - You guarantee it and all generations who follow can count on it. The Holy Spirit dwells in fullness in the Church You founded and so does Truth, Life, and Light.
I formed you, and set you
as a covenant of the people,
a light for the nations,
To open the eyes of the blind,
to bring out prisoners from confinement,
and from the dungeon, those who live in darkness.
PSALM 27:1-3, 13-14
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
While the world lives in anxiety and fear, doubt and anger, helplessness and foreboding, the psalmist in today's Liturgy re-ignites our hope and our confidence in God who is our Creator, our Redeemer, and Our Consoler, the Triune God.
You O Lord are our light, our salvation, our refuge and our stronghold - there is no place for fear in love.
Even though the Enemy has encamped against us we know we can trust You.
Time will prove yet again that You have the power to draw immense beauty and good from our present sufferings. We wait on You, Beloved with courage, faith, hope, and trust.
JOHN 12:1-11
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
John the evangelist lays before us the different responses of people who knew You. After the miracle of raising Lazarus from the dead, there could be no doubt in anyone's mind that You were just who You said You were, the Son of God.
Mary's extravagant gesture in pouring out the expensive perfume over Your feet is a symbol of giving You the best of what we have. It is response of complete and utter surrender to Your love. This is the kind of disciple that we are all called to be.
The world is full of people like Judas. These are people of the flesh - they cannot see beyond the physical, the creature comforts, the immediate gratification of the greedy, selfish impulse no matter the cost. They are hand-wringing poseurs who pretend, as Judas did, to have compassion. They are stupid enough to believe that those around them are taken in. St. John puts paid to such blindness for he points out what they all knew about Judas. He did not care about the poor but was a thief, he held the money bag and would steal the contributions from it.
Then we have the large crowd - many are there because they are curious, it gives them something to talk about. Some are sincere and want to know more so they can understand better. Then there are those whose only response to the true, the good, the beautiful is to destroy it and to wipe it off the face of the earth. They are hypocrites whose evil is hidden behind a facade of flaccid goodwill to all. These are the most dangerous. These are the ones who are lock-step with the devil and they fill the world. Thankfully, Beloved, You have proved that You are the Light of the world and darkness will never overcome the Light.
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