DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS
ECCLESIASTICUS 27:33 - 28:9
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
If it were not for Your Word in Scripture both the Old and the New, we would still be barbarians. Left to ourselves with no divine direction or intervention, we would live by the savage law of the fittest and the most powerful.
To this day we see how the godless live by the law of the world and the flesh. We only have to look at the world today to see how a lack of grace and divine wisdom can unleash the power of evil and bring in its wake only the fire of destruction and ruin.
Thank You, Beloved, for teaching us a better way - the Way of forgiveness. The Way of love, the Way of wisdom. Today we are reminded that when we carry resentment, anger, and unforgiveness in our hearts they befoul our spirit and death and darkness make a home in us. The writer of the first reading of the Liturgy of the day also reminds us to remember member the last things, which are death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Let us always remember how much we have been forgiven and readily forgive the wrongs done to us as well.
PSALM 103:1-4, 9-12
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
One sure way to be joyful always is to be grateful, to always count our blessings and be thankful. You always gave thanks to Your Father even as You instituted the Holy Eucharist before Your passion and death, You gave thanks to Him. You gave thanks before You broke Your Body to feed us so we who are Your adopted brothers and sisters would have food for the journey that would strengthen us to the end.
You taught us to be compassionate, to forgive, to rein in our anger and love instead of giving vent to hate. You came to show us a better way. The only way to the Father's house is love.
While we were yet sinners, Beloved, You died for us. You asked Your Father to forgive those who put You to death because they acted in ignorance and that same sacrificial love pleads for us as You make intercession for us night and day. All You ask is that we forgive the wrongs done to us and keep no record of the offenses committed against us just as You forgive and keep no record of our guilt.
ROMANS 14:7-9
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We are one Body in You, this is why, what each member of Your Body does affects the other for good or ill. If one part of the body is sick the whole body suffers. Our world is sick because so many in the world are spiritually undernourished, sick, dying, and dead. The very life of grace in us is being suffocated because so many refuse to receive what You desire to give freely. I am so grateful that whether we are alive or dead we belong to You and even those who are spiritually dead have hope, for You are Lord of both the dead and the living. Where sin abounds grace abounds even more, this is why we must never give up praying for the world for with You there is always hope.
MATTHEW 18:21-35
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
It is good for us to ponder Your answer to Peter's question to You today. 'Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?' That sounds pretty magnanimous we would think. Not so. You say, 'Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.' You do not wish us to keep a record of how many times we forgive the sins done against us because love keeps no record of wrongs.
The parable of the unforgiving servant vividly describes how God deals with us and we are called to deal with one another in the very same way.
If we fail to forgive from the heart, every single time we are asked to forgive no matter how many times we are sinned against, then we will not be forgiven. Each time we approach the Throne of Grace and beg for mercy and forgiveness You never withhold Your mercy, compassion, tenderness, and love. You cancel all our debt when we appeal to You and in like manner, we are called to forgive the debts of others. If not, we will receive divine retribution until we have paid our own debt to the full unless we forgive from the heart.
I give you a new commandment:
love one another just as I have loved you,
says the Lord. JN 13:34
love one another just as I have loved you,
says the Lord. JN 13:34
ECCLESIASTICUS 27:33 - 28:9
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
If it were not for Your Word in Scripture both the Old and the New, we would still be barbarians. Left to ourselves with no divine direction or intervention, we would live by the savage law of the fittest and the most powerful.
To this day we see how the godless live by the law of the world and the flesh. We only have to look at the world today to see how a lack of grace and divine wisdom can unleash the power of evil and bring in its wake only the fire of destruction and ruin.
Thank You, Beloved, for teaching us a better way - the Way of forgiveness. The Way of love, the Way of wisdom. Today we are reminded that when we carry resentment, anger, and unforgiveness in our hearts they befoul our spirit and death and darkness make a home in us. The writer of the first reading of the Liturgy of the day also reminds us to remember member the last things, which are death, judgment, heaven, and hell. Let us always remember how much we have been forgiven and readily forgive the wrongs done to us as well.
PSALM 103:1-4, 9-12
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
One sure way to be joyful always is to be grateful, to always count our blessings and be thankful. You always gave thanks to Your Father even as You instituted the Holy Eucharist before Your passion and death, You gave thanks to Him. You gave thanks before You broke Your Body to feed us so we who are Your adopted brothers and sisters would have food for the journey that would strengthen us to the end.
You taught us to be compassionate, to forgive, to rein in our anger and love instead of giving vent to hate. You came to show us a better way. The only way to the Father's house is love.
While we were yet sinners, Beloved, You died for us. You asked Your Father to forgive those who put You to death because they acted in ignorance and that same sacrificial love pleads for us as You make intercession for us night and day. All You ask is that we forgive the wrongs done to us and keep no record of the offenses committed against us just as You forgive and keep no record of our guilt.
ROMANS 14:7-9
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We are one Body in You, this is why, what each member of Your Body does affects the other for good or ill. If one part of the body is sick the whole body suffers. Our world is sick because so many in the world are spiritually undernourished, sick, dying, and dead. The very life of grace in us is being suffocated because so many refuse to receive what You desire to give freely. I am so grateful that whether we are alive or dead we belong to You and even those who are spiritually dead have hope, for You are Lord of both the dead and the living. Where sin abounds grace abounds even more, this is why we must never give up praying for the world for with You there is always hope.
MATTHEW 18:21-35
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
It is good for us to ponder Your answer to Peter's question to You today. 'Lord, how often must I forgive my brother if he wrongs me? As often as seven times?' That sounds pretty magnanimous we would think. Not so. You say, 'Not seven, I tell you, but seventy-seven times.' You do not wish us to keep a record of how many times we forgive the sins done against us because love keeps no record of wrongs.
The parable of the unforgiving servant vividly describes how God deals with us and we are called to deal with one another in the very same way.
If we fail to forgive from the heart, every single time we are asked to forgive no matter how many times we are sinned against, then we will not be forgiven. Each time we approach the Throne of Grace and beg for mercy and forgiveness You never withhold Your mercy, compassion, tenderness, and love. You cancel all our debt when we appeal to You and in like manner, we are called to forgive the debts of others. If not, we will receive divine retribution until we have paid our own debt to the full unless we forgive from the heart.
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