ST. THOMAS AQUINAS, PRIEST, DOCTOR, ON TUESDAY OF WEEK 3 IN ORDINARY TIME - 2025

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Blessed are you, Father,
Lord of heaven and earth,
for revealing the mysteries of the kingdom
to mere children. MT 11:25

HEBREWS 10:1-10

My Soul's Beloved,

Salvation is available to every man, woman, and child in the world but only if they desire it. All who believe in You Lord, all who believe in the Good News of salvation are a new creation in You the old is gone the new is here and to all who believe in You, all who receive You, all who testify that You are the Son of God, is given the right to be called children of God for that is who we are. Sons and daughters by adoption to the Living God because we believe in the One that the Father sent into the world, not to condemn but to redeem it.

It is pitiful and painful to see how non-Catholics, and people of other faiths through ignorance offer God worthless offerings and sacrifices that have no merit at all in the sight of God. They are idolaters because they worship mythical gods and legends, they worship nature and not the Creator, they worship things that they have created by hand or are mass-produced and worship these with great pomp and ceremony that signify absolutely nothing not even a little puff of smoke. 

Only the Blood of the Lamb, offered once and for all by Your Sacrifice on Calvary, for the whole world beginning with Adam has the power to wash away every sin, every blemish, every wrongdoing, and restore us, renew us, recreate us in Your image and likeness. We become children of God by the Blood and Water that flowed from You and Your side. No other sacrifice can save.

You who wanted no sacrifice or oblation,

prepared a body for me.
You took no pleasure in holocausts or sacrifices for sin;
then I said,
just as I was commanded in the scroll of the book,
‘God, here I am! I am coming to obey your will.’
Notice that he says first: You did not want what the Law lays down as the things to be offered, that is: the sacrifices, the oblations, the holocausts and the sacrifices for sin, and you took no pleasure in them; and then he says: Here I am! I am coming to obey your will. He is abolishing the first sort to replace it with the second. And this will was for us to be made holy by the offering of his body made once and for all by Jesus Christ.

PSALM 39(40):2,4,7-8,10,11

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

I waited, I waited for the Lord
and he stooped down to me;
he heard my cry.
He put a new song into my mouth,
praise of our God.

You do not ask for sacrifice and offerings,

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

Your justice I have proclaimed

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

I have not hidden your justice in my heart

but declared your faithful help.
I have not hidden your love and your truth
from the great assembly.

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

MARK 3:31-35

My Soul's Beloved,

No human being who ever lived or shall live will outdo Your Mother in holiness, goodness, purity, chastity, beauty, sanctity, and grace. She is the Woman par excellence above all the angels and saints. She is the Queen Mother who sits at the right hand of the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. It is You Yourself O Lord who have prepared this seat for her and You took her by the hand and led her to the place that God created for her. There she reigns as our Queen Mother as well. We trust in her intercession with You, her Son just as she did at the Wedding Feast at Cana. Yes, Lord we are aware that  You alone are the only intercessor between God and man but she is our intercessor as Your mom and ours with our beloved older Brother. You will always honor her requests just as You did at Cana and she will always and everywhere say to us, 'Do whatever He tells you.' 

The mother and brothers of Jesus arrived and, standing outside, sent in a message asking for him. A crowd was sitting round him at the time the message was passed to him, ‘Your mother and brothers and sisters are outside asking for you.’ He replied, ‘Who are my mother and my brothers?’ And looking round at those sitting in a circle about him, he said, ‘Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of God, that person is my brother and sister and mother.’