Tuesday, July 1, 2025

TUESDAY OF WEEK 13 IN ORDINARY TIME - 2025

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

My soul is waiting for the Lord,
I count on his word. PS 129:5


GENESIS 19:15-29

My Soul's Beloved,

The world is in the deathly grip of the spirit of Sodom and Gomorrah and revels in its hideous, soul-destroying, deadly sins. But in the world, there is always a faithful remnant, it is Your Way, O Lord, from small and humble beginnings, to start anew. While it may seem hopeless, there is always hope for You have won the victory. The world is in imminent danger of being overrun by Satan and his willing accomplices. The world grows more degenerate every day. The child in the womb is no longer safe but is dismembered in the most brutal, cruel, and barbaric way and extracted piece by piece from the womb of its mother. 

Children by the millions are violated in every way. Robbed of their innocence in their most tender years, their cries and their suffering cry out to God for vindication. You, O Lord, are not deaf to their cries. The poor, the marginalized, the weak, and the old are looked at with scorn. Their lives are seen as meaningless and without value, and those with authority and power want to squash their lives under the guise of mercy, which is a blatant lie, and the vast majority of foolish, selfish people are buying into.

Like Lot and his family, Lord, You will preserve the lives of the faithful few before You rain fire and brimstone on the world and incinerate and obliterate the degenerates who right now believe themselves invincible. 

Let us use the time we are given, Beloved, to pray, fast with a real burden on our hearts that God may yet save the world from the reign of terror that will come upon us. Let us not look back like Lot's voice but keep our gaze fixed on heaven, trusting in Your merciful love and Your Most Precious Blood to hear our prayers and withhold the blazing wrath of God for the sake of Your sorrowful passion. 

The angels urged Lot, ‘Come, take your wife and these two daughters of yours, or you will be overwhelmed in the punishment of the town.’ And as he hesitated, the men took him by the hand, and his wife and his two daughters, because of the pity the Lord felt for him. They led him out and left him outside the town.

As the sun rose over the land and Lot entered Zoar, the Lord rained on Sodom and Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the Lord. He overthrew these towns and the whole plain, with all the inhabitants of the towns, and everything that grew there. But the wife of Lot looked back, and was turned into a pillar of salt.
Rising early in the morning Abraham went to the place where he had stood before the Lord, and looking towards Sodom and Gomorrah, and across all the plain, he saw the smoke rising from the land, like smoke from a furnace.
Thus it was that when God destroyed the towns of the plain, he kept Abraham in mind and rescued Lot out of disaster when he overwhelmed the towns where Lot lived.


PSALM 25(26):2-3,9-12

Your love, O Lord, is before my eyes.

Examine me, Lord, and try me;
O test my heart and my mind,
for your love is before my eyes
and I walk according to your truth.

Do not sweep me away with sinners,
nor my life with bloodthirsty men
in whose hands are evil plots,
whose right hands are filled with gold.

As for me, I walk the path of perfection.
Redeem me and show me your mercy.
My foot stands on level ground:
I will bless the Lord in the assembly.

Your love, O Lord, is before my eyes.

MATTHEW 8:23-27

My Soul's Beloved,

We live in a world where terror abounds. The faithful remnant are not safe but hounded, persecuted, and terrorized. Right now, power is in the hands of wicked and evil men and women, and they hate the Church with a hatred that is demonic, for she stands unflinchingly and fearlessly on the doctrines of Truth, Beauty, and Goodness. Standing on Your Word and ruled by Your Commandments, no power on earth or in hell can vanquish her. She is invincible. Nothing can sink her. Although the forces of evil believe they have prevailed, for You appear to be fast asleep in the midst of the storm that threatens to do so overpower her, it will fail. 

Peter is at the helm, and the bark of Peter is unsinkable. We have Your assurance that the gates of hell can never prevail against Your Bride, the Church, and that You will remain with her until the end of time. Let the Enemy do his worst; we will remain calm and serene through the storm, for we know in the end, the Eternal Word of God has the power to command and vanquish every demonic force arrayed against her. At Your Word, O Lord, all will fall on their knees and obey.

Jesus got into the boat followed by his disciples. Without warning a storm broke over the lake, so violent that the waves were breaking right over the boat. But he was asleep. So they went to him and woke him saying, ‘Save us, Lord, we are going down!’ And he said to them, ‘Why are you so frightened, you men of little faith?’ And with that he stood up and rebuked the winds and the sea; and all was calm again. The men were astounded and said, ‘Whatever kind of man is this? Even the winds and the sea obey him.’

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