Dear Lord God, what would I do without You; how did I dare to try to walk without You for so long. Through Divine Mercy of Your Son Jesus Christ via the Holy Spirit I have realized how important it is to start each day with You and to practice Your presence throughout the day. As faith yields understanding, time with You produces a desire for more time with You, a great thirst for Your Word, knowledge of Your truths and hunger for the secret wisdom that lies within Jesus Christ. A combination of practiced thought and behavior that seeks these truths and secrets to apply to my walk under the sun so that I may be an example however little and with all my weaknesses and faults that my love ones and others would see as one that seeks and always gets back up to seek Your image, no matter how many times I stumble and fall, dying to myself brings me closer to You, and this produces the fruit of the Spirit. For I know now how I must guard against my fallen nature, not only in the sins I have committed and mistake that I have made, but also through Your Holy Word. For as today’s Gospel reading tells us, even the 11 disciples who walked with Jesus for three years failed to believe until Jesus upbraided them directly and then commanded them to go forth and preach the Gospel to the world. So knowing how those who were there with Him stumbled, it is all the more reason to be guard against myself, and to practice dying to myself to be the image of Jesus Christ. For I do believe that for the sake of His sorrowful passion all should open theirs hears, hearts and minds to Him; if only for the fact of the Cross, as He, ‘Jesus Christ on the Cross, made oblation to His Father of His Wounds, His Blood, His Death for my salvation yours and the whole worlds’. O Lord I pray all those still making excuses as I did, I pray for all to have courage to overcome what ever is holding them back; for as today’s video reflections explains, with the example of doubting Disciples often the knowledge of just what it means to let Jesus into our hearts, is the very thing stopping us. For we know what He will ask of us and how hard it will be to walk in His ways and in His light, knowing He is always with us watching us, convicting us; but Dear Lord God I pray that in and through Your Divine Mercy all well find the way to over come and not miss Your knocking at their door. I am grateful that You knew me well enough to use my loving children and wife to open mine. Thank You Jesus! In Your Holy name I give thanksgiving. Amen
0h, if you could see the mystery of the altar as it really is after the Consecration, you would see Jesus Christ on the Cross, making oblation to His Father of His Wounds, His Blood, His Death for the salvation of your soul and the whole world.
— St. Peter Julian Eymard
13 Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were uneducated, common men, they wondered; and they recognized that they had been with Jesus. 14 But seeing the man that had been healed standing beside them, they had nothing to say in opposition. 15 But when they had commanded them to go aside out of the council, they conferred with one another, 16 saying, "What shall we do with these men? For that a notable sign has been performed through them is manifest to all the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and we cannot deny it. 17 But in order that it may spread no further among the people, let us warn them to speak no more to any one in this name." 18 So they called them and charged them not to speak or teach at all in the name of Jesus. 19 But Peter and John answered them, "Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you rather than to God, you must judge; 20 for we cannot but speak of what we have seen and heard." 21 And when they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for all men praised God for what had happened.
1 O give thanks to the LORD, for he is good; his steadfast love endures for ever! 14 The LORD is my strength and my song; he has become my salvation. 15 Hark, glad songs of victory in the tents of the righteous: "The right hand of the LORD does valiantly, 16 the right hand of the LORD is exalted, the right hand of the LORD does valiantly!" 17 I shall not die, but I shall live, and recount the deeds of the LORD. 18 The LORD has chastened me sorely, but he has not given me over to death. 19 Open to me the gates of righteousness, that I may enter through them and give thanks to the LORD. 20 This is the gate of the LORD; the righteous shall enter through it. 21 I thank thee that thou hast answered me and hast become my salvation.
Bible Study: [Psalm 118] A thanksgiving liturgy accompanying a victory procession of the king and the people into the temple precincts. After an invocation in the form of a litany (Psalm 118:1-4), the psalmist (very likely speaking in the name of the community) describes how the people confidently implored God’s help (Psalm 118:5-9) when hostile peoples threatened its life (Psalm 118:10-14); vividly God’s rescue is recounted (Psalm 118:15-18). Then follows a dialogue at the temple gates between the priests and the psalmist as the latter enters to offer the thanksgiving sacrifice (Psalm 118:19-25). Finally, the priests impart their blessing (Psalm 118:26-27), and the psalmist sings in gratitude (Psalm 118:28-29).
9 Now when he rose early on the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, from whom he had cast out seven demons. 10 She went and told those who had been with him, as they mourned and wept. 11 But when they heard that he was alive and had been seen by her, they would not believe it. 12 After this he appeared in another form to two of them, as they were walking into the country. 13 And they went back and told the rest, but they did not believe them. 14 Afterward he appeared to the eleven themselves as they sat at table; and he upbraided them for their unbelief and hardness of heart, because they had not believed those who saw him after he had risen. 15 And he said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to the whole creation.
Bible Study: [9-20] This passage, termed the Longer Ending to the Marcan gospel by comparison with a much briefer conclusion found in some less important manuscripts, has traditionally been accepted as a canonical part of the gospel and was defined as such by the Council of Trent. Early citations of it by the Fathers indicate that it was composed by the second century, although vocabulary and style indicate that it was written by someone other than Mark. It is a general resume of the material concerning the appearances of the risen Jesus, reflecting, in particular, traditions found in Luke 24 and John 20. The Shorter Ending: Found after Mark 16:8 before the Longer Ending in four seventh-to-ninth-century Greek manuscripts as well as in one Old Latin version, where it appears alone without the Longer Ending. The Freer Logion: Found after v 14 in a fourth-fifth century manuscript preserved in the Freer Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, this ending was known to Jerome in the fourth century. It reads: "And they excused themselves, saying, "This age of lawlessness and unbelief is under Satan, who does not allow the truth and power of God to prevail over the unclean things dominated by the spirits [or, does not allow the unclean things dominated by the spirits to grasp the truth and power of God]. Therefore reveal your righteousness now.’ They spoke to Christ. And Christ responded to them, "The limit of the years of Satan’s power is completed, but other terrible things draw near. And for those who sinned I was handed over to death, that they might return to the truth and no longer sin, in order that they might inherit the spiritual and incorruptible heavenly glory of righteousness. But . . . .’ "
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