Hail to you, our King!
You alone have had compassion on our sins.
ISAIAH 42:1-7 ©
You alone have had compassion on our sins.
ISAIAH 42:1-7 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
In a world where might is right and power is abused and used as a whip to subdue the weak, God reveals another way. It is a way that is scorned and ridiculed by the world. It is a way of contradiction as God's wisdom often is.
You are the Model that God holds up to the world and it is one we must model our own lives on if we are to live forever.
Justice for the nations is granted through You for You are the champion of the friendless, the widow, and the orphan and are full of mercy and tender compassion towards those who have no one to plead their cause.
You are the Word through whom God created the heavens and the earth and gave life and breath to all that lives and moves. You are appointed by the Father as His covenant of love between Him and us, His creatures. You are the light that illumines our life and dispels the darkness of evil and sin not only in us but in the world. You have the power to take away our blindness and enable us to see. You have the power to release us from the chains that hold us captive to sin. You have the power to raise us from death to life.
Because of You, we have hope. Thank You!
PSALM 27:1-3,13-14 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
My Soul's Beloved,
Too often on life's journey, we are overwhelmed by the cares of the world, the frailty of our bodies, the weakness of our spirit, our lack of fortitude to push through the crushing weight of our physical and spiritual limitations, and then we read Your Word and we are given food for the journey.
The psalms have the power to raise our spirits. They encourage us and assure us that we are not alone. We do not fight our battles alone - You are right beside us helping us, cheering us along, carrying our cross with us, sharing our burdens with us, consoling and comforting us, and providing all the strength we need through the graces poured into our soul through the Sacraments You instituted.
Each time I find the world too much for me let me recall the words of this psalm:
whom shall I fear?
The Lord is the stronghold of my life;before whom shall I shrink?
May I hold on strongly to the hope I have in Your goodness and take heart even when the night is long no light is seen on the horizon.
JOHN 12:1-11 ©
My Soul's Beloved,
Our acts of kindness, mercy, compassion, tender pity for those who are weak and vulnerable are like the fragrance that filled the house when Mary anointed Your feet. It is these acts of charity impelled solely by love that will testify on our behalf when we stand before You at the end of our life's journey.
Too often we can be like Judas who shamelessly attempts to hide his greed by a pseudo display of concern for the poor. He fooled no one and neither do we. John records for all time this indictment against Judas, 'He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief; he was in charge of the common fund and used to help himself to the contributions.'
Your response to Judas is a fitting one to all the hypocrites of the world who wring their hands in farcical despair, 'Leave her alone; she had to keep this scent for the day of my burial. You have the poor with you always, you will not always have me.’ We must render to God what is due to God.
The greatest of all Your wondrous signs up to that moment was the raising of Lazarus from the dead, and since he was living proof of Your divine power they plotted to kill him as well since they were quickly becoming aware that if they did not do something to silence You they would lose all credibility with the Jews.
This continues to be true to this day - the world is afraid of the power of Christianity and its radical teachings that can change the world. If the world lived the Gospel values the Kingdom of God will be visible in our midst.
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