Your words are spirit, Lord, and they are life;
you have the message of eternal life. JN 6:63, 68
DEUTERONOMY 30:10-14
My Soul's Beloved,
The Law of God is Love, the Love of God is the Holy Spirit that unites You and the Father and makes You One. The power of God's Love made manifest to us through Your incarnation, life, passion, death, and glorious resurrection into heaven, and the Holy Spirit You sent to abide in us at Pentecost draws us into the love and life of God. So yes, the Word of God, the Eternal Word of God, is true - His Word is very near us - we eat the Word of God made Flesh and Blood at every celebration of the Holy Eucharist. We have the Life of the Holy Spirit in us, enabling us to do all things that love demands of us through the Gifts that He freely gives us. You have commanded us to be holy and perfect as our heavenly Father is holy and perfect,t and this is not impossible because the love of God in You abides in us as You abide in God.
Beloved, I can strive with Your help to be holy in the present moment. I do not desire to live in regret over past sins, but entrust it to Your mercy. All I have is the here and now, and with the help of Your grace, do all that love demands in this present moment for Your greater glory. The future is not here, and so I will entrust it to Your providence. May I live from moment to moment aware of Your loving gaze on me, and strive to perform all that love demands of me for love of You.
Moses said to the people: ‘Obey the voice of the Lord your God, keeping those commandments and laws of his that are written in the Book of this Law, and you shall return to the Lord your God with all your heart and soul.
‘For this Law that I enjoin on you today is not beyond your strength or beyond your reach. It is not in heaven, so that you need to wonder, “Who will go up to heaven for us and bring it down to us, so that we may hear it and keep it?” Nor is it beyond the seas, so that you need to wonder, “Who will cross the seas for us and bring it back to us, so that we may hear it and keep it?” No, the Word is very near to you, it is in your mouth and in your heart for your observance.’
PSALM 68(69):14,17,30-31,33-34,36-37
Seek the Lord, you who are poor, and your hearts will revive
PSALM 68(69):14,17,30-31,33-34,36-37
Seek the Lord, you who are poor, and your hearts will revive
This is my prayer to you,
my prayer for your favour.
In your great love, answer me, O God,
with your help that never fails:
Lord, answer, for your love is kind;
in your compassion, turn towards me.
As for me in my poverty and pain
let your help, O God, lift me up.
I will praise God’s name with a song;
I will glorify him with thanksgiving.
The poor when they see it will be glad
and God-seeking hearts will revive;
for the Lord listens to the needy
and does not spurn his servants in their chains.
For God will bring help to Zion
and rebuild the cities of Judah
and men shall dwell there in possession.
The sons of his servants shall inherit it;
those who love his name shall dwell there.
my prayer for your favour.
In your great love, answer me, O God,
with your help that never fails:
Lord, answer, for your love is kind;
in your compassion, turn towards me.
As for me in my poverty and pain
let your help, O God, lift me up.
I will praise God’s name with a song;
I will glorify him with thanksgiving.
The poor when they see it will be glad
and God-seeking hearts will revive;
for the Lord listens to the needy
and does not spurn his servants in their chains.
For God will bring help to Zion
and rebuild the cities of Judah
and men shall dwell there in possession.
The sons of his servants shall inherit it;
those who love his name shall dwell there.
Seek the Lord, you who are poor, and your hearts will revive
COLOSSIANS 1:15-20
My Soul's Beloved,
We thank God, our Father, for sending You into the world as one of us, clothed in human flesh through the incarnation. The invisible God would have remained unknown to us in a tangible way if He had not sent You into the world to reveal the depths of His love for us. We would have died in our sins, Lord, if You, in loving submission to Your Father's will, did not come into the world to heal and save it and restore our relationship with Him, our Creator. We were created by Him through the power of His Eternal Word uttered by the breath of the Holy Spirit.
You are the First Born of the Father in whom God created all that exists and established You as Lord of all that is seen and unseen. You, O Lord, make us one with the Father, for we who are baptized are members of Your Body. We draw our life from Your Holy Spirit. We who were born in sin and death are now alive in You, and at the end of our earthly pilgrimage, we have the hope of eternal life in heaven.
Thank You, Lord Jesus, Prince of Peace and Savior of the world, for reconciling us to the Father in time and in eternity through Your death on the Cross.
Christ Jesus is the image of the unseen God
and the first-born of all creation,
for in him were created
all things in heaven and on earth:
everything visible and everything invisible,
Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers –
all things were created through him and for him.
Before anything was created, he existed,
and he holds all things in unity.
Now the Church is his body,
he is its head.
As he is the Beginning,
he was first to be born from the dead,
so that he should be first in every way;
because God wanted all perfection
to be found in him
and all things to be reconciled through him and for him,
everything in heaven and everything on earth,
when he made peace
by his death on the cross.
LUKE 10:25-37
and the first-born of all creation,
for in him were created
all things in heaven and on earth:
everything visible and everything invisible,
Thrones, Dominations, Sovereignties, Powers –
all things were created through him and for him.
Before anything was created, he existed,
and he holds all things in unity.
Now the Church is his body,
he is its head.
As he is the Beginning,
he was first to be born from the dead,
so that he should be first in every way;
because God wanted all perfection
to be found in him
and all things to be reconciled through him and for him,
everything in heaven and everything on earth,
when he made peace
by his death on the cross.
LUKE 10:25-37
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