DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS
The Lord sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor and to proclaim liberty to captives.
The Lord sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor and to proclaim liberty to captives.
LK 4:18
1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-9
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
Often, like the church in Corinth, we act like children squabbling about inconsequential matters. What is important is the Good News we have received and which we in turn are called to transmit to others. All who teach and preach the Gospel are Your servants, laboring in Your vineyard. Personalities do not matter what matters is once we become members of Your Body, the Church, we receive the same mandate, to labor and bring in the harvest.
Every baptized person receives a mission and they carry it out according to their own unique calling. As Christians we are called to be effective witnesses to the Truth, it is the work of the Holy Spirit to ensure that the Truth received by receptive hearts grow and bear fruit for the glory of God and His Kingdom.
PSALM 33:12-15, 20-21
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We are all children of God. Created by Him we have a glorious destiny. We who are privileged to know You, who are called by Your Name and are grafted into Your Body cannot hold on to this gift but are commanded to share it by the way we live out the Good News in our lives.
We are laborers in the vineyard of God. Each is given gifts and talents that we must put to use in order to establish God's Kingdom on earth. We are called to be good stewards and to share what we have received freely conscious always that we will be called to given an account of our stewardship.
Thank You for the joy of knowing, You, loving You, and belonging to You in time and eternity.
LUKE 4:38-44
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
In today's Liturgy, the Gospel of Luke narrates a whole sequence of events. You and Your disciples visit Simon's house and when they find his mother-in-law in bed with a high fever they ask You to do something for her. You commanded the fever to leave her and it did. She got up immediately and began to serve. Once we encounter You and are healed by You we too must commence serving immediately.
By the end of that day word of Your presence spread, and 'At sunset all those who had friends suffering from diseases of one kind or another brought them to him, and laying his hands on each he cured them.' We are called to bring our friends to You so You can lay Your hands on them, touch them, and heal them of all their sicknesses both spiritual and physical. You have power over all even demons. Nothing and no one has greater power than God.
The crowds kept coming until daylight of the next day. You had not slept at all. You would have been exhausted at the end of it yet You did not go to sleep, rather, St. Luke tells us, When daylight came you left the house and went to a lonely place to be alone with Your Father. To rest in Him and to be rejuvenated by Him.
The crowds came looking for You. They wanted You to stay with them. They wanted to hold on to You. But You said, ‘I must proclaim the Good News of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, because that is what I was sent to do.’ It is good for us to remember that we too are called to proclaim the Good News everywhere we go. Tempting as it might be to stay where we are accepted we must go where we are sent.
1 CORINTHIANS 3:1-9
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
Often, like the church in Corinth, we act like children squabbling about inconsequential matters. What is important is the Good News we have received and which we in turn are called to transmit to others. All who teach and preach the Gospel are Your servants, laboring in Your vineyard. Personalities do not matter what matters is once we become members of Your Body, the Church, we receive the same mandate, to labor and bring in the harvest.
Every baptized person receives a mission and they carry it out according to their own unique calling. As Christians we are called to be effective witnesses to the Truth, it is the work of the Holy Spirit to ensure that the Truth received by receptive hearts grow and bear fruit for the glory of God and His Kingdom.
PSALM 33:12-15, 20-21
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
We are all children of God. Created by Him we have a glorious destiny. We who are privileged to know You, who are called by Your Name and are grafted into Your Body cannot hold on to this gift but are commanded to share it by the way we live out the Good News in our lives.
We are laborers in the vineyard of God. Each is given gifts and talents that we must put to use in order to establish God's Kingdom on earth. We are called to be good stewards and to share what we have received freely conscious always that we will be called to given an account of our stewardship.
Thank You for the joy of knowing, You, loving You, and belonging to You in time and eternity.
LUKE 4:38-44
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
In today's Liturgy, the Gospel of Luke narrates a whole sequence of events. You and Your disciples visit Simon's house and when they find his mother-in-law in bed with a high fever they ask You to do something for her. You commanded the fever to leave her and it did. She got up immediately and began to serve. Once we encounter You and are healed by You we too must commence serving immediately.
By the end of that day word of Your presence spread, and 'At sunset all those who had friends suffering from diseases of one kind or another brought them to him, and laying his hands on each he cured them.' We are called to bring our friends to You so You can lay Your hands on them, touch them, and heal them of all their sicknesses both spiritual and physical. You have power over all even demons. Nothing and no one has greater power than God.
The crowds kept coming until daylight of the next day. You had not slept at all. You would have been exhausted at the end of it yet You did not go to sleep, rather, St. Luke tells us, When daylight came you left the house and went to a lonely place to be alone with Your Father. To rest in Him and to be rejuvenated by Him.
The crowds came looking for You. They wanted You to stay with them. They wanted to hold on to You. But You said, ‘I must proclaim the Good News of the kingdom of God to the other towns too, because that is what I was sent to do.’ It is good for us to remember that we too are called to proclaim the Good News everywhere we go. Tempting as it might be to stay where we are accepted we must go where we are sent.
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