TWENTY-SEVENTH SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME - 2021

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

As long as we love one another
God will live in us
and his love will be complete in us. JN 4:12

GENESIS 2:18-24 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

Thank You for instituting the Sacrament of Marriage - it is a little foretaste of the marriage between the Lamb of God and His Bride, the Church. It pleases God to let us, the creatures He loves best for He made us in His image and likeness, to experience even while we are on earth what we will experience in fullness in His Kingdom.

We were created by God for You, Beloved, and nothing on earth will ever satisfy us completely, but when we cooperate with God and we strive with sincerity always to discern His will and do it, then the Holy Spirit gives us a foretaste of the joy that will be ours eternally.

Marriage is good and when we enter into this sacred bond we must remain committed to it for life. It is not easy and without the graces of the Sacrament, it is almost impossible and some give up.  A man and a woman complement each other perfectly, they fit together for this is how God created us, husband and wife are one flesh and this is the same way we are made one with our Bridegroom in the Holy Eucharist.

Thank You, Father, for the gift of my spouse and a foretaste even in this life of the eternal spiritual nuptials between the Lamb and His Bride which is the Church He instituted. 

‘This at last is bone from my bones,
and flesh from my flesh!
This is to be called woman,
for this was taken from man.’
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become one body.

HEBREWS 2:9-11 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

The writer of this letter to the Hebrews explains how God, in stooping lower than the angels to become like us raised us up to become children of God.  Redeeming us by Your Blood, we are now raised higher than the angels because we are sons and daughters of the Living God. No wonder Lucifer and his cohorts rebelled against God. God chose to become Man and the angels who are great, powerful, wise, and far superior to us were to serve us and be our protectors and guardians. 

If we fully comprehended what God has done for us we would never cease to praise, adore, and worship Him for as long as we had breath in our bodies. We are children of Your Father because You deign to call us Your sisters and brothers.