WENESDAY OF WEEK NINETEEN IN ORDINARY TIME - 2023

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

God in Christ was reconciling the world to himself,
and he has entrusted to us the news that they are reconciled. 2COR 5:19

DEUTERONOMY 34:1-12 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

God decrees the number of days we live on earth and in this time we are to accomplish the mission that He has entrusted to us. So it was with Moses after doing all that God commanded him to do in leading His people from slavery into freedom through the desert, he was told that he would not enter the promised land. God showed him the vastness of the rich land that He would give His people but Moses would not cross into it. It was time for God to take His good and faithful servant home to Himself.

We too, after our life's journey comes to a close must serenely surrender our mortal life to God and trust Him to lead us into the Kingdom of Heaven, our eternal home. When the end comes for me O Lord, grant that I will wait for You with exultant and expectant joy to take me by the hand and lead me home to Yourself. 

MATTHEW 18:15-20 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

How glorious is the Church You have founded and established on Peter and the Apostles and their successors. Thank You for the confidence that we have in her because we believe Your Word for Your Word O Lord is Truth. Every Sacrament that You instituted are channels through which the Holy Spirit streams grace into our souls. Every Sacrament beginning with the Sacrament of Baptism which makes us children of God and heirs to the Kingdom is necessary and life-giving. 

Thank You for the Sacrament of Reconciliation for as sinners born of Eve we sin constantly and grave sin prevents us from receiving You in the Holy Eucharist which unites us to heaven while still on earth. Hear my prayers O gracious Lord for every member of my family and grant that each one of them encounters You in such a radical way that they will renounce their sins and return to the loving arms of the Father like the prodigal son. 

Thank You for giving the Church Your authority to dispense all the graces we need from her vast and boundless treasury through the Holy Spirit who lives in her and with You and the Father until the end of time. 

‘I tell you solemnly, whatever you bind on earth shall be considered bound in heaven; whatever you loose on earth shall be considered loosed in heaven.

‘I tell you solemnly once again, if two of you on earth agree to ask anything at all, it will be granted to you by my Father in heaven. For where two or three meet in my name, I shall be there with them.’