WEDNESDAY OF THE THIRD WEEK OF LENT - 2022

LENT 2022

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life;

you have the message of eternal life. JN 6:6, 68

DEUTERONOMY 4:1,5-9 ©

My Soul's Beloved, 

Living and Eternal Word of the Father, You have revealed to us the Way of God, the Will of God, the Commandment of God, the commandment of love. If we love as God desires us to we will not sin. If we are familiar with Your Word in Sacred Scripture, if it is written on our hearts, we will never be led astray for Your Word will be a lamp to our feet and a light to our path.

Lord Jesus Christ, we are baptized into Your Body, we are called by Your Name, We eat Your Flesh and drink Your Blood and we are united with You by bonds of love that can never be broken. Even when we sin You have made provision for us to be healed, made whole, and restored into the family of God through the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

What was said of God's chosen people is truer still of the people of the New Jerusalem, for the Word of God abides in her, “No other people is as wise and prudent as this great nation.” 

You O Lord, are a God who is closer to us than our breath. Before we call, You answer. You abide in us. Love such as Your demands that we respond as we ought. Yet we have failed so miserably in raising children to know, to believe, and to live the faith that they too are privileged to receive. Forgive us Lord, and do for them what we have failed to do.

‘But take care what you do and be on your guard. Do not forget the things your eyes have seen, nor let them slip from your heart all the days of your life; rather, tell them to your children and to your children’s children.’

MATTHEW 5:17-19 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

Unless we are familiar with the Old Testament we will fail to grasp the contest when we read Your words recorded by the writers of the New Testament. Everything in the Old is fulfilled by You in the New. This is why You say, ‘Do not imagine that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have come not to abolish but to complete them. I tell you solemnly, till heaven and earth disappear, not one dot, not one little stroke, shall disappear from the Law until its purpose is achieved.’

Biblical scholars have written reams in the past and will continue to do so in the future about what You meant when You preached, did, or taught something in the context of what is recorded in the Old Testament writings. However, unless they write with the mind of the Church they more often than not will be relying on human wisdom and understanding and there is a distinct possibility that they are in error.

Grant, O Lord, that we stay close to Holy Mother Church, be taught the Truth by the Magisterium who is guaranteed to teach without error on matters of faith and morals. May we, by the grace of God, the Word made Flesh, and the power of the Holy Spirit be counted among those who are considered great in the Kingdom of Heaven because we have kept and taught Your commandments just as You taught them to Your Apostles and who in turn handed it in an unbroken line to their successors. Amen.