DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS
Happy are those
who hear the word of God
and keep it. LK 11:28
GALATIANS 1:13-24
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
Like Paul, who once was Saul, we all have an inglorious past before our encounter with You then comes that moment of revelation at a time of Your choosing. It usually is when we are at our weakest and in the darkest moment of our life when the dawn breaks, grace floods our soul, and we are no longer the same. Even through the tears, and the grief, we are raised up and our spirit and soul are wrapped in a love and an encounter with love so profound the poverty of our words fails to describe it but the memory of it remains and shapes all we become from that moment on.
So it was with Paul, and so it is with us. After our personal encounter with God who has known us long before we were conceived in the womb, there must be a total metanoia - we are a new creation. We receive new life, and a new spirit, and we are invited to tell the whole world our story of how God became incarnate so He could die in my place so I could receive His life and live eternally. This is indeed Good News that the world needs to know and to believe, to bring about the glorious reign of the Kingdom of God.
PSALM 139:1-3, 13-15
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
The verses of this psalm remind me of Your closeness to me. Your tender love and care for me. Your watchful presence over my life ensuring that no harm comes to me. You have marked the way I should go and You take me by the hand and lead me.
Even before You laid the foundation of the earth You thought of me. You lovingly thought out every aspect of my life and You rejoiced in creating me and preparing a glorious destiny for me with You. The wonder, the grandeur, the beauty, the majesty of everything in creation were for my delight and my pleasure and raises by whole being in praise and thanksgiving to You.
Nothing in my life is hidden from You. All my weaknesses, my failings, my frailties, my sins both great and small are known to You. When I stumble and fall You raise me up, steady me, forgive me, and help me begin anew. You feed me with Your own Body and Blood which strengthens and helps me on my pilgrim journey from this life to the life to come. Thank You.
LUKE 10:38-42
My Beloved, Soul of my soul,
Today, I am invited to reflect on both sisters Martha, and Mary. When You came to the village it was Martha who welcomed You into her house. I too must keep the door of my heart open to You. You come to me when I pray, You live in me through Your Spirit and You enter completely into my heart in the Holy Eucharist. May I always be aware of Your coming and throw open my entire being to welcome You and receive You in my life.
Like Martha, I too tend to get busy and distracted. I lose sight of what matters by getting preoccupied with frivolities, with nonessentials. You come to me, You visit me, You sit down and wish to talk to me, You desire to spend time with me, but my mind wanders in a hundred different directions instead of intently focusing on You and delighting in Your presence. And then I become frustrated, tired, I begin to whine and find fault, and I lose the peace and the joy that you wish to give me.
When I complain You remind me to be like Mary. I must relax in Your Presence. I must listen to You when You speak. I must remain at Your feet, so I can lean against Your knee, feel Your hand gently on my head blessing me and filling me with a peace and joy that the world cannot give. It is I who must choose the better part and when I do You will permit no one and nothing to take it away from me.
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