Acts 3:11-26, Psalm 8:2ab, 5-9, Luke 24:35-48

EASTER OCTAVE

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Acts 3:11-26, Psalm 8:2ab, 5-9, Luke 24:35-48

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 Acts 3:11-26

My Beloved, God sent You into the world to be our blessing and our peace. to unite a divided world, to raise a fallen people and to fill our empty lives with the sweetness of Your love.  We are sorry that our sins were responsible for Your death and we thank God that He sent You into the world to be the means by which all men are saved.  Thank You for being the Promise that gives us hope from the first man to the last.  You gather us all as the one people of God so that we may all sing God's praises here on earth and forever in heaven.

 

Psalm 8:2ab, 5-9

Thank You Father for being mindful of us.  We had all strayed and deserved Your righteous punishment.  You did not treat us according to our guilt, You did not judge us according to our iniquity.  You have shown Yourself to us as a merciful, tender, loving, compassionate Father.  You gave us Jesus as our Beloved Savior and You have poured upon us Your Holy Spirit to reveal the Truth of our salvation in order that we may live for You always.

Luke 24:35-48

Jesus, when we speak of You, You are present in our midst.  We look at You and see Your scars and we rejoice as they are the marks that bore our punishment.  We now can touch You, see You and taste You.  Stay with us Lord, You who are the cause of our joy and the means by which we are saved.  Grant us power from above in order that we may be pleasing to You.  We love You help us to love all that is good and may we always choose to do all the You desire us to do in order that we can come to You and live with You forever.

Acts 2: 36-41, Psalm 33:4-5, 18-20, 22, John 29:36-41

EASTER OCTAVE

Acts 2: 36-41, Psalm 33:4-5, 18-20, 22, John 29:36-41

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Acts 2: 36-41

My Beloved, the power of Your Name, the power of the Holy Spirit and the promise of God our Father, are a force that can move the heavens and shake the earth from its very foundations. To those who believe, those who repent and are baptized in the Most Holy Name of Jesus have all our sins forgiven and me receive the anointing of God's own Holy Spirt. We are empowered just like Peter to preach the God News and this Good News has the power to bring many to believe in the wonderful promise that God makes to those who believe in His only Son - we become co-heirs to a Kingdom.

Psalm 33:4-5, 18-20, 22

My Beloved, You are my Hope, my Help, my Song, my Salvation.  I trust in Your Word and Your saving work on the Cross.  If I live by Your precepts of love, I can hope to walk with You in the land of the living.  Your eye is upon me, were You to take Your gaze away from me, I would no longer be.  Your love sustains me.  I trust in Your great love for me to save me.  I look at You and my soul is satisfied.  My life and my strength come from You.  Because You love me I am.  My hope is in You now and forever.

John 29:36-41

My Beloved, You live and I have no reason to weep - I exult my God is alive and because He lives, I live.

Why do you weep?  Weep no more.  The time for weeping is at an end.  Those who seek Me will find Me and having found Me will have found the Pearl of great price.  In Me is salvation.  

My Beloved,  my mission is like Mary Magdalene's I have to hurry and announce to the world, "I have seen the Lord and this is what He said to me." I must not cling to You selfishly but having found You I must allow my joy to be the force that desires to spread this Good News to everyone.