TUESDAY OF THE FIRST WEEK OF LENT - 2024

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Man does not live on bread alone,
but on every word that comes from the mouth of God. MT 4:4

ISAIAH 55:10-11 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

Your Word is the Living Word, the Eternal Word, and it is etched in the hearts of all the redeemed. When we were baptized we were grafted to You and Your life became our life. We are sons and daughters of the Father and God desires that all His children be saved and come to the knowledge of truth. 

Even before the foundations of the world O Lord, You are  Your Word is Spirit, Truth, Life, and Light. God uttered His Word before the dawn of creation and everything that God desired came into existence. We are saved, we are redeemed, we are sanctified, we belong to God utterly and irrevocably and the powers of darkness can never overcome the Light and the Life that we have received from You. 

Thank You, Father, for completing all that You set out to do for us in the Eternal Word that proceeded from Your Mouth. 

PSALM 33(34):4-7,16-19 ©

Glorify the Lord with me.

Together let us praise his name.
I sought the Lord and he answered me;
from all my terrors he set me free.

Look towards him and be radiant;

let your faces not be abashed.
This poor man called, the Lord heard him
and rescued him from all his distress.

The Lord turns his face against the wicked

to destroy their remembrance from the earth.
The Lord turns his eyes to the just
and his ears to their appeal.

They call and the Lord hears

and rescues them in all their distress.
The Lord is close to the broken-hearted;
those whose spirit is crushed he will save.

The Lord rescues the just in all their distress.

MATTHEW 6:7-15 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

Our hearts, minds, and wills must be engaged as one when we pray. Catholics are often accused by our Christian brothers and sisters of repetition when we pray - especially when we pray the Holy Rosary. But we know that this prayer beloved of saints and sinners alike is contemplative, and scriptural, and draws us close to Your Sacred Heart through the heart of the Immaculata.  

The more we contemplate the Sacred Mysteries of our faith the more we come to love You, adore You, and worship You and our hearts are filled with gratitude and overwhelming love, for all that You have done for us through Your incarnation, Your life, Your passion death and glorious resurrection.

Thank You for giving us the prayer of the Our Father. It is based on Your intimate knowledge of Your Father and ours. You teach us in this beautiful prayer how we are to approach God as Father, give Him praise, honor, and glory, and pray for His will to be accomplished perfectly in our lives and in the world just as it is in heaven and finally we are to provide for our needs. We then ask that our Father give us daily sustenance first by giving us the Bread of Angels, the Holy Eucharist without which we will surely die, and then to provide for our daily needs for our physical body. Next, we ask for forgiveness for all our sins for we fall so often in the day because we are weak. Thank You, Lord, for reminding us that we cannot expect to be forgiven unless we first forgive anything we have against another and finally we ask that we may not be tested beyond our ability to resist. All glory and praise to You O Lord our God, now and forever. Amen.