1 John 4:11-18, Psalm 72:1,2,10-13, Mark 6:45-52

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

1 John 4:11-18, Psalm 72:1,2,10-13, Mark 6:45-52

1 John 4:11-18

My Beloved, if I am afraid, if fear of anything grips me, then I have not grasped this great truth that Love loves me. So extraordinarily and perfectly am I loved by Love that this Love that upholds me and keeps me alive every moment, which fills me and flows out from me must touch those I encounter every day that they too experience Love. Love is not an emotion that is here today and gone in a puff of smoke dispersed by the wind but is a Trinity of Persons in one God whose being and nature is love.

If I have failed to allow this truth to be the guiding principle of every thought, word and deed then fear and anxiety envelops me and I will be unable to love as I am loved. Conceived in love, created in love and born of love I must know that the God of Love has destined me to live in love and die in love and live eternally in the bosom of Love. This is my destiny – that the God of Love has created me in love to love Him above and before all else and my neighbor as myself.  

Psalm 72:1,2, 10-13

My Beloved, Son of the Living God and Sun of Justice who has been appointed as King of Kings and Lord of Lords to rule over all, all creation rightly worships You and gives You praise. Our hope is in You. Our joy is in You. Our life comes from You. You uphold and sustain all that lives, moves and breathes. All of creation recognizes Your Kingship and rule and renders You homage.

 

As the Son of Justice the poor, the needs, the outcast, the sinner, the weak, the marginalized, those considered worthless and are forgotten find in You a Friend and a Brother who will ensure that they will receive recompense if not in this life but certainly a hundred fold in the next. Anyone who has caused even a sigh to escape the lips of Your poor little ones will be judged and their oppressors will pay for their injustice.

Habbakuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4. Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9, 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14, Luke 17:5-10

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

The word of the Lord remains forever.
This is the word that has been proclaimed to you. 1 Pet 1:25

Habbakuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4. Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9, 2 Timothy 1:6-8, 13-14, Luke 17:5-10

Habbakuk 1:2-3, 2:2-4

By soul's beloved, we live in a godless age filled with fear, disease, pestilence, hatred, warmongering and sinful. The faithful remnant raises their voices to you night and day and it seems that You neither hear nor answer for there is no respite from the wickedness that people and nations heap upon each other. Yet, we know that our world has indeed been redeemed by Your Blood, the world is constantly being sanctified by our Holy Spirit, and the world that the Father created in love has been handed over to You who are victorious. You do hear the cry of the just, and because of their faith, they will live.

Psalm 95:1-2, 6-9

"If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts."

You call us night and day ceaselessly by soul's beloved. We come before You all over the world in joyful praise and thanksgiving. From the rising up of the sun to its setting Your people offer to God the one, holy, and most pleasing Sacrifice of the Lamb of God for the atonement of the sins of all mankind. You rose from the dead in a most glorious resurrection and because You have crushed the head of Satan who continues to strike Your heel in his death throes, we truly have won the victory over death through You. 

True, we are being tried and tested and so it will be until we give up our last breath on earth but You are right beside us along with Your Mama and ours and all the Saints and angels who are urging us along through their intercession and we will claim the victory that was won for us at so great a price.