MONDAY OF WEEK 3 IN ORDINARY TIME - 2025

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Our Saviour Jesus Christ abolished death
and he has proclaimed life through the Good News. 2TIM 1:10

HEBREWS 9:15,24-28

My Soul's Beloved,

The consequence of sin is death and grave sin brings with it eternal death. From the first sin of Adam death entered and created an unbridgeable gap between the Creator and the created. We were doomed to be separated from God forever and when we are separated from God we consign ourselves to hell.

But our Father in heaven so loved fallen humanity whom He created for a glorious destiny desiring us to be like gods, would not abandon us because He loved us and pitied us. He sent You into the world and You came into it as a weak, small, infant conceived in the womb of the Virgin. You became the Lamb of Sacrifice taking on the sins of the whole world. You entered into our frailty, our humanity, taking upon Yourself all our weaknesses and all our sins suffering the death that was our lot, You made perfect atonement, once and for all, for the sins of the world, and by it we are saved.

Thank You, Jesus. Thank You for instituting the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Thank You for breathing the Holy Spirit on Your Apostles and granting them and their successors the power to forgive all sins even the most heinous ones. All we need to do is approach You in Confession with a repentant heart and a humble and contrite spirit, confess all our sins and You will forgive us and we will be set free from the chains that ensnared us and will be restored once again as members of the family of God. 

 
Christ brings a new covenant, as the mediator, only so that the people who were called to an eternal inheritance may actually receive what was promised: his death took place to cancel the sins that infringed the earlier covenant. 

Since men only die once, and after that comes judgement, so Christ, too, offers himself only once to take the faults of many on himself, and when he appears a second time, it will not be to deal with sin but to reward with salvation those who are waiting for him.

PSALM 97(98):1-6

Sing a new song to the Lord for he has worked wonders.

Sing a new song to the Lord
for he has worked wonders.
His right hand and his holy arm
have brought salvation.

The Lord has made known his salvation;
has shown his justice to the nations.
He has remembered his truth and love
for the house of Israel.

All the ends of the earth have seen

the salvation of our God.
Shout to the Lord, all the earth,
ring out your joy.

Sing psalms to the Lord with the harp

with the sound of music.
With trumpets and the sound of the horn
acclaim the King, the Lord.

Sing a new song to the Lord for he has worked wonders.

MARK 3:22-30

My Soul's Beloved,

There are no new sins. In every age and every culture, there have been unspeakable atrocities and societies have continually sunk into unimaginable levels of wickedness, decadence, and atrocities against the weakest and most vulnerable among us. The cries as well as the blood of the innocents go up to God unceasingly crying out for vengeance. In our own age, we see how a few spiritually and mentally deranged people have convinced the ignorant and the godless but who are powerful that it is right to give their demonic demands legitimacy. They force the majority to go along with the lie that black is white, male is female and v.v., wrong is right, etc., ad infinitum ad nauseam.  The mentally deranged are given a platform to spread their vitriol while the sane are punished, silenced, violated, and even imprisoned. 

This is exactly what the scribes were doing when they said of You, ‘Beelzebul is in him’ and, ‘It is through the prince of devils that he casts devils out.’ It is to spread lies if you have an axe to grind and the power to create confusion among the ignorant. A false sympathy is aroused for those fringe elements who raucously demand legitimacy when, in truth, they are in desperate need of help.

When we are poorly catechized, ignorant of God's Word, choose to live unholy lives which place us outside the Church, and no longer live a Sacramental life we are bound to be taken in by the lies of the Enemy and will surely die. We have the freedom to choose whether the Holy Spirit or the Father of Lies will be the strong man in our house and we live or die by our choices. 

Grant us the grace O Lord not to be taken in by the wiles of the Enemy giving to God and attributing to Him the things that are His alone and not to Beelezebub

‘I tell you solemnly, all men’s sins will be forgiven, and all their blasphemies; but let anyone blaspheme against the Holy Spirit and he will never have forgiveness: he is guilty of an eternal sin.’ This was because they were saying, ‘An unclean spirit is in him.’