WEDNESDAY OF WEEK 3 IN ORDINARTY TIME - 2025

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

The seed is the word of God, Christ the sower;
whoever finds this seed will remain forever.

HEBREWS 10:11-18

My Soul's Beloved,

You have put an end to all animal sacrifice for God Himself provided for the life of the world You as the Lamb of Sacrifice who takes away the sins of the world. Every other sacrifice apart from this one, holy, perfect, atoning Sacrifice instituted by You at the Last Supper and consummated by You on the Altar of the Cross at Golgotha is the only one acceptable and pleasing to God. The Blood of the Lamb has the power to forgive every sin, and every transgression, beginning with the sin of Adam and all the sins of every man woman, and child until Your glorious second coming.

Non-Catholics refuse to accept the truth that the only true worship offered to God is the celebration of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass. Scripture says so plainly but they refuse to accept it simply to be contrary. Their colossal ignorance, their pride, their hardness of heart, and their stubborn denial of the truth that You founded only one Church and Peter is its visible head and that the fullness of Truth abides in her alone.  The preachings and the sermons of their greatest teachers, leaders, and preachers will be tainted and always fall short because they reject the undeniable Truth that there is only one Church - the Catholic Church.

But this is only for a time Lord. The Holy Spirit is alive, active, and at work. Many Catholics are actively engaging with our non-Catholic brothers and sisters and many are coming to acknowledge the Truth, being converted, and crossing the Tiber. The Church prays unceasingly for all to come to the knowledge of Truth and be saved and her prayers will be answered for this is the will of God. 

By virtue of that one single offering, he has achieved the eternal perfection of all whom he is sanctifying. The Holy Spirit assures us of this; for he says, first:
This is the covenant I will make with them
when those days arrive;
and the Lord then goes on to say:
I will put my laws into their hearts
and write them on their minds.
I will never call their sins to mind,
or their offences.
When all sins have been forgiven, there can be no more sin offerings.

PSALM 109(110):1-4

You are a priest for ever, a priest like Melchizedek of old.

The Lord’s revelation to my Master:
‘Sit on my right:
your foes I will put beneath your feet.’

The Lord will wield from Zion

your sceptre of power:
rule in the midst of all your foes.

A prince from the day of your birth

on the holy mountains;
from the womb before the dawn I begot you.

The Lord has sworn an oath he will not change.

‘You are a priest for ever,
a priest like Melchizedek of old.’

You are a priest for ever, a priest like Melchizedek of old.

MARK 4:1-20

My Soul's Beloved,

You are constantly sowing the good seed of Your Word, if we are attentive we will allow it to be planted deep in our hearts, it will take root in us and bear good fruit, fruit that will last. We hear Your Word at Holy Mass, when we pray, when we look at creation, and when we listen to those around us.  Your Word O Lord is everywhere and we will hear it if we are attentive. But it is pointless to hear Your Word if we do not allow it to transform our lives. 

The Holy Spirit living in us speaks to us, inspires us, and gives us wisdom and understanding to know what God is saying to us in every situation in our lives. If the soil of our heart is poor, rocky, and arid we will receive it indifferently, and good as the Word of God is it will be powerless to effect any change in us unless we give consent and submit willingly to all that the Word demands.   

The soil of my heart is only as good as the care I take of it with prayer, daily devotions, receiving the Sacraments, and living a sacramental life. Only in faithfully fulfilling all the duties and responsibilities of my vocation in life will I, with the help of the Holy Spirit bear good fruit in abundance.

What the sower is sowing is the word. Those on the edge of the path where the word is sown are people who have no sooner heard it than Satan comes and carries away the word that was sown in them. Similarly, those who receive the seed on patches of rock are people who, when first they hear the word, welcome it at once with joy. But they have no root in them, they do not last; should some trial come, or some persecution on account of the word, they fall away at once. Then there are others who receive the seed in thorns. These have heard the word, but the worries of this world, the lure of riches and all the other passions come in to choke the word, and so it produces nothing. And there are those who have received the seed in rich soil: they hear the word and accept it and yield a harvest, thirty and sixty and a hundredfold.’