MONDAY OF WEEK 30 IN ORDINARY TIME - 2023

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Your word is truth, O Lord:
consecrate us in the truth. JN 17:17

ROMANS 8:12-17 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

St. Paul says that there is no necessity for us to sin by giving in to our baser nature rather, because we are children of God we have received the grace to choose to obey You and make those choices that give life rather than bring death to the soul. 

In baptism, we are made co-heirs with You the the Kingdom of God. Your Holy Spirit is poured into our souls and it is this Spirit within us that enables us to cry out to God, 'Abba, Father!' However, Beloved, so many of God's children who have been baptized have chosen to walk in ways that grieve the Holy Spirit. They have chosen to give in to concupiscence rather than to courageously will to live holy lives pleasing to God. Beloved, I implore You may my tears, my cries, my supplications not be in vain but grant O Lord that Wisdom will prevail and they will repent, receive forgiveness of all their sins in the Sacrament of Reconciliation so that the Father may welcome them home to Himself. Amen.

PSALM 67(68):2,4,6-7,20-21 ©

Let God arise, let his foes be scattered.

Let those who hate him flee before him.
But the just shall rejoice at the presence of God,
they shall exult and dance for joy.

Father of the orphan, defender of the widow,

such is God in his holy place.
God gives the lonely a home to live in;
he leads the prisoners forth into freedom.

May the Lord be blessed day after day.
He bears our burdens, God our saviour.
This God of ours is a God who saves.

The Lord our God holds the keys of death.

This God of ours is a God who saves.

LUKE 13:10-17 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

Through the power of Your Word and the power of Your touch, You set the woman who had been possessed by a spirit for eighteen years leaving her enfeebled and bent double.  All it took was a Word and a touch from You our Divine Physician and she was set free - she straightened up and immediately began to praise and glorify God.

This must be the immediate response for all of us who not only hear Your Word daily but consume You in the Holy Eucharist. There is no greater privilege than this, Beloved, to come to Daily Mass and participate in the celebration of Holy Mass - the Holy and Living Sacrifice and the only Sacrifice pleasing and acceptable to God.

The world is full of petty, narrow-minded, bigots who are pigheaded with a narrow vision of God. The God of infinite goodness, mercy, compassion, tenderness, and love is alien and incomprehensible to them they are like the synagogue official who instead of rejoicing with the woman who was healed and glorifying God with her, became indignant because You healed her on the sabbath. He did not dare to look You in the eye and speak to You directly instead he raged against the people who were present. He was a cowardly little man. Turning to him in righteous indignation You addressed him and called him a hypocrite to his face. They cared for their animals on the sabbath but lacked sympathy and empathy for one of their own whose bonds You had just untied. 

‘Is there one of you who does not untie his ox or his donkey from the manger on the sabbath and take it out for watering? And this woman, a daughter of Abraham whom Satan has held bound these eighteen years – was it not right to untie her bonds on the sabbath day?’ When he said this, all his adversaries were covered with confusion, and all the people were overjoyed at all the wonders he worked.