TUESDAY OF WEEK 29 IN ORDINARY TIME - 2023

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Stay awake, praying at all times
for the strength to stand with confidence
before the Son of Man. LK 21:36

ROMANS 5:12,15,17-21 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

What a great debt of gratitude we owe You, my Lord and my God. Your merits far surpass the gravity of the original sin and death inherited through Adam. His disobedience cast us out of paradise and we were condemned to a life in the wilderness of sorrow and despair. Thanks be to Your Father, who sent You into the world to become like us in all things save sin to become the means by which we are all saved - not just a few but all humanity. All have sinned, all are born in sin, and without God's marvelous work of redemption wrought in and through You, we were condemned to eternal death. 

St. Paul tells us that the gift of redemption far outweighed the fall - for the love of God made visible and tangible in You covers a multitude of sins and redeems the whole human race. We sinned willfully and separated ourselves from You but You freed us freely taking upon Yourself the punishment that was ours. The wages of sin is death and You, my Lord and my God became the willing victim for our sins.

Beloved, it is most comforting to know that however great the number of sins committed, grace was even greater; and so, just as sin reigned wherever there was death, so grace will reign to bring eternal life thanks to the righteousness that comes through Jesus Christ our Lord.

I will continue to pray with even greater confidence that in the end You mighty hand and holy arm will save all those I love.

PSALM 39(40):7-10,17 ©

You do not ask for sacrifice and offerings,

but an open ear.
You do not ask for holocaust and victim.
Instead, here am I.

In the scroll of the book it stands written

that I should do your will.
My God, I delight in your law
in the depth of my heart.

Your justice I have proclaimed

in the great assembly.
My lips I have not sealed;
you know it, O Lord.

O let there be rejoicing and gladness

for all who seek you.
Let them ever say: ‘The Lord is great’,
who love your saving help.

Here I am, Lord! I come to do your will.

LUKE 12:35-38 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

The world we live in currently seems to be catapulting with increasing rapidity towards its annihilation. The deliberate and very conscious efforts made by the spawns of satan have weakened the very foundations of Christianity whose principles have undergirded most nations for centuries. A very meticulously thought out plan launched insidiously, silently, and with such great cunning and evil intent that most nations and their people were unaware of the great deception is finally upon us. Who is to blame? We are. We who made no effort to make our Christian faith our own, we who failed to study the Scriptures and make the Word of God our way of life, we who failed to take the teaching of Holy Mother Church seriously but instead selectively cherry-picked those teachings we would keep and those we would reject out of hand. We made no effort to live the faith of our fathers seriously by first making it our own and because of this, we failed our children miserably as well.  Our children are the victims of our spiritual neglect. And now the hour of retribution is on our doorstep and all have now to pay the price for our spiritual turpitude. 

We have long since soiled our wedding garments. We are too drunk with licentious living to pay heed to the hour of Your return and when You do return Beloved, will You find faith on earth?

Jesus said to his disciples:

‘See that you are dressed for action and have your lamps lit. Be like men waiting for their master to return from the wedding feast, ready to open the door as soon as he comes and knocks. Happy those servants whom the master finds awake when he comes. I tell you solemnly, he will put on an apron, sit them down at table and wait on them. It may be in the second watch he comes, or in the third, but happy those servants if he finds them ready.’