MONDAY OF WEEK 29 IN ORDINARY TIME - 2025

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

How happy are the poor in spirit:
theirs is the kingdom of heaven. MT 5:3

ROMANS 4:20-25

My Soul's Beloved, 

We who believe in You, hope in You, adore You, and love You above all things, my Lord and my God, will have the joy of experiencing Your holy presence, and You love not just in the next life but in this life as well. Faith in You is the light that dispels all darkness and doubt, giving us the confidence and hope we need to navigate all the challenges we face. Even when life is difficult and uncertain, filled with suffering, loss, and sorrow, we continue to believe with certainty that through it all, You never leave us or abandon us.

Abraham is our father in faith. He had confidence in God's promises. His unswerving faith saved him, and so does ours. We have placed our faith in Your passion, death, and glorious resurrection. We believe that You laid down Your life for us so we could have new life in You. We are redeemed, we are sanctified, and we belong to You. We are fed on Your Body and Blood, and we are a new creation in You. As long as we remain grafted to You, Lord, You will bring us safely home through all the difficulties that we must face in this life until it comes to an end in death.

Since God had made him a promise, Abraham refused either to deny it or even to doubt it, but drew strength from faith and gave glory to God, convinced that God had power to do what he had promised. This is the faith that was ‘considered as justifying him.’ Scripture however does not refer only to him but to us as well when it says that his faith was thus ‘considered’; our faith too will be ‘considered’ if we believe in him who raised Jesus our Lord from the dead, Jesus who was put to death for our sins and raised to life to justify us.

PSALM LUKE 1:69-75

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel! He has visited his people.

He has raised up for us a mighty saviour
in the house of David his servant,
as he promised by the lips of holy men,
those who were his prophets from of old.

A saviour who would free us from our foes,
from the hands of all who hate us.
So his love for our fathers is fulfilled
and his holy covenant remembered.

He swore to Abraham our father
to grant us that free from fear,
and saved from the hands of our foes,
we might serve him in holiness and justice
all the days of our life in his presence.

Blessed be the Lord, the God of Israel! He has visited his people.

LUKE 12:13-21

My Soul's Beloved,

You remind us today to be more concerned about the things of heaven than of earth. The whole world and all in it is Yours. You are the Master and King of the Heavens, the Earth, and the entire universe. You are the King of Kings and Lord of Lords, the Savior and Redeemer of the human race. If anyone could command one person to give what is rightful to his brother, You are, and yet, You dismiss this man's request out of hand and rather ask him and all Your followers, until the end of time, to be vigilant and on guard against avarice in any shape or form.

Beloved, You have already made known to us that we have a Father in heaven who will supply all our needs, both spiritual and temporal; all we need to do is ask. With childlike simplicity and trust, we can trust Him to provide all that we need in this life and eternal life in the next.

The parable You narrated to the crowd is a stern reminder that death is certain, and when this life ends, we take nothing with us but our deeds, good or bad, and You, the righteous judge, will determine our eternal reward, heaven or hell. While we yet have life, Lord, grant us the grace to work out our salvation with fear and trembling so we do not look forward to that hour with dread but rather with hope.  

A man in the crowd said to Jesus, ‘Master, tell my brother to give me a share of our inheritance.’ ‘My friend,’ he replied, ‘who appointed me your judge, or the arbitrator of your claims?’ Then he said to them, ‘Watch, and be on your guard against avarice of any kind, for a man’s life is not made secure by what he owns, even when he has more than he needs.’
Then he told them a parable: ‘There was once a rich man who, having had a good harvest from his land, thought to himself, “What am I to do? I have not enough room to store my crops.” Then he said, “This is what I will do: I will pull down my barns and build bigger ones, and store all my grain and my goods in them, and I will say to my soul: My soul, you have plenty of good things laid by for many years to come; take things easy, eat, drink, have a good time.” But God said to him, “Fool! This very night the demand will be made for your soul; and this hoard of yours, whose will it be then?” So it is when a man stores up treasure for himself in place of making himself rich in the sight of God.’