Saturday, June 28, 2025

SATURDAY OF WEEK 12 IN ORDINARY TIME - 2-25

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Remain in my love, says the Lord;
whoever remains in me, with me in him,
bears fruit in plenty. JN 15:9, 5


2 TIMOTHY 2:22-26

My Soul's Beloved,

St. Paul's spiritual advice to Timothy is also advice for every believer, every disciple who ardently desires to follow You more closely with every passing day. Each day, we begin anew to strive for holiness and perfection. It does not matter how badly we failed the previous day; what pleases You is that we desire to do better, rely on Your grace, and pick up our cross once more and follow You.

It is not easy, Lord, when our natural inclination is to be selfish, self-serving, lazy, self-willed, seeking ease rather than to mortify the flesh and the senses, and to discipline ourselves that seeks to pander to our desires and seek ease rather than the cross. But once we make a firm resolution to cooperate with the graces that You freely give us through Your Holy Spirit, and we set out each day to conquer the present moment,t then moment by moment we will be sanctified because You will be with us to help us gain victory and mastery over our baser instincts.

Let me not focus on my inadequacies, which are legion, but on Your goodness instead and lean on You and trust You to do for me what I am incapable of doing myself. Thank You, Lord.

Fasten your attention on holiness, faith, love and peace, in union with all those who call on the Lord with pure minds. Avoid these futile and silly speculations, understanding that they only give rise to quarrels; and a servant of the Lord is not to engage in quarrels, but has to be kind to everyone, a good teacher, and patient. He has to be gentle when he corrects people who dispute what he says, never forgetting that God may give them a change of mind so that they recognise the truth and come to their senses, once out of the trap where the devil caught them and kept them enslaved.


PSALM 36(37):3-6,30-31

The just man’s mouth utters wisdom.

If you trust in the Lord and do good,
then you will live in the land and be secure.
If you find your delight in the Lord,
he will grant your heart’s desire.

Commit your life to the Lord,
trust in him and he will act,
so that your justice breaks forth like the light,
your cause like the noon-day sun.

The just man’s mouth utters wisdom
and his lips speak what is right;
the law of his God is in his heart,
his steps shall be saved from stumbling.

The just man’s mouth utters wisdom.

JOHN 17:20-26

My Soul's Beloved,

It is impossible for us, finite creatures, to understand the infinite heights, depths, breadth, and width of Your love us. You do not love by degrees with all consuming love. We are loved with the same love with which the Father loves You, and You love the Father, and the wonder of it all is, Lord, that You love us with that same love. You love us wholly, not in part. 

Thank You, Lord, for praying for all Your sheep. I take comfort from Your prayer for all those I know and love and are far away from You and from the Church. You desire their conversion as salvation with a greater intensity than I ever could and so, my Lord, I will entrust their salvation to Your tender mercy.

Jesus raised his eyes to heaven and said:
‘Holy Father,
I pray not only for these,
but for those also
who through their words will believe in me.
May they all be one.
Father, may they be one in us,
as you are in me and I am in you,
so that the world may believe it was you who sent me.
I have given them the glory you gave to me,
that they may be one as we are one.
With me in them and you in me,
may they be so completely one
that the world will realise that it was you who sent me
and that I have loved them as much as you loved me.
Father, I want those you have given me
to be with me where I am,
so that they may always see the glory you have given me
because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Father, Righteous One,
the world has not known you,
but I have known you,
and these have known that you have sent me.
I have made your name known to them
and will continue to make it known,
so that the love with which you loved me may be in them,
and so that I may be in them.’

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