Through the Good News God called us
to share the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 TH 2:15
DEUTERONOMY 10:12-22
My Soul's Beloved,
to share the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. 2 TH 2:15
DEUTERONOMY 10:12-22
My Soul's Beloved,
From the opening words in Sacred Scripture, the love of God for the human race is palpably clear. Every line of the Word of God reveals His care, tenderness, and compassion for us, His creatures whom He designed and created in His Heart and Mind long before He actually fashioned us from the dust of the earth.
Our God, Father, Son, and Holy Spirit have, in the most awe-inspiring and wondrous way, created the world and all that is in it for the pleasure and well-being of the human race - and what do we in turn owe God? We owe Him everything. We are given a blueprint by God Himself to live happy and fulfilled lives. Created by the Triune God, He knows best how we will function at our optimum if we fully embrace and live out His will and in all things, do just as He commands. You, O Lord, summed them up in the two great commandments, which are: to put God above, before, and beyond any earthly creature or thing, and to love Him with our whole heart, mind, and strength, and next, to love one another as we love ourselves. It is as simple and clear as this, and yet, because we are weakened by original sin, we struggle to keep them.
But perhaps this is only an excuse that weak people like me make. We have to only look at Mother Mary, St. Joseph, and all the holy men and women that the Church has raised to sainthood for our veneration, admiration, and imitation, to know that if we ask the Holy Spirit, He will provide all the graces and help we need to live lives of heroic virtue as they did. The problem is that we do not desire it. I for one know that I do not hunger and thirst to seek God's will, discern it is truly His will, and then do it no matter the cost.
Pity me, Lord, and help me.
Moses said to the people:
‘Now, Israel, what does the Lord your God ask of you? Only this: to fear the Lord your God, to follow all his ways, to love him, to serve the Lord your God with all your heart and all your soul, to keep the commandments and laws of the Lord that for your good I lay down for you today.
‘To the Lord your God belong indeed heaven and the heaven of heavens, the earth and all it contains; yet it was on your fathers that the Lord set his heart for love of them, and after them of all the nations chose their descendants, you yourselves, up to the present day. Circumcise your heart then and be obstinate no longer; for the Lord your God is God of gods and Lord of lords, the great God, triumphant and terrible, never partial, never to be bribed. It is he who sees justice done for the orphan and the widow, who loves the stranger and gives him food and clothing. Love the stranger then, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. It is the Lord your God you must fear and serve; you must cling to him; in his name take your oaths. He it is you must praise, he is your God: for you he has done these great and terrible things you have seen with your own eyes; and though your fathers numbered only seventy when they went down to Egypt, the Lord your God has made you as many as the stars of heaven.’
PSALM 147:12-15,19-20
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
Zion, praise your God!
He has strengthened the bars of your gates
he has blessed the children within you.
He established peace on your borders,
he feeds you with finest wheat.
He sends out his word to the earth
and swiftly runs his command.
he feeds you with finest wheat.
He sends out his word to the earth
and swiftly runs his command.
He makes his word known to Jacob,
to Israel his laws and decrees.
He has not dealt thus with other nations;
he has not taught them his decrees.
to Israel his laws and decrees.
He has not dealt thus with other nations;
he has not taught them his decrees.
O praise the Lord, Jerusalem!
MATTHEW 17:22-27
MATTHEW 17:22-27
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