One Walk

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Lord God, Abba Father, aware and thankful for all Your blessings, I seek to maintain a humble and grateful spirit in all I do. This requires a constant awareness and reflection on my sub-conscious words and actions when I am conscious in the moment with You. Here I know, I feel certain, I believe; here I feel and think, talk and act in and by Your words of wisdom and truth. Yet I cry out to You through Jesus to help me in my unbelief, for when the battle under the sun pulls me down and my sub-conscious disconnects me from the Holy Spirit, I feel as if I was being held under water unable to breathe. For I have begun to know the feeling of oneness and connection with You through Jesus in the Spirit, and to be disconnected is as if I was under water unable to breath. Until my sub-consciousness is broken by my need to feel and walk in that oneness, and like the air I breath I feel the You in the Spirit coming into me with each breath I breathe in renewing my heart, strengthening my spirit and I feel that oneness with You through Jesus in the Holy Spirit; breathing out that I die to myself, releasing that which is not of You my source of source. As one running a race I breathing faster I seeking more of You and less of me until I feel I hit a wall as if the world under the sun will not let go outside of its grasp. It is here that I realize and know that only through Jesus can the world under the sun be overcome, and I cry out – HELP ME LORD! Help me Lord God for only through Jesus in the Spirit can I overcome myself and the world within me to be one with You in all things, at all times resting in Your truths made known to me guided by the Spirit as declared by Jesus Christ. In the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

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It is simply impossible to lead, without the aid of prayer and a virtuous life.

— St John Chrysostom

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Reading 1
Acts 2:1-11
When the time for Pentecost was fulfilled,
they were all in one place together.
And suddenly there came from the sky
a noise like a strong driving wind,
and it filled the entire house in which they were.
Then there appeared to them tongues as of fire,
which parted and came to rest on each one of them.
And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit
and began to speak in different tongues,
as the Spirit enabled them to proclaim.

Now there were devout Jews from every nation under heaven staying in Jerusalem.
At this sound, they gathered in a large crowd,
but they were confused
because each one heard them speaking in his own language.
They were astounded, and in amazement they asked,
"Are not all these people who are speaking Galileans?
Then how does each of us hear them in his native language?
We are Parthians, Medes, and Elamites,
inhabitants of Mesopotamia, Judea and Cappadocia,
Pontus and Asia, Phrygia and Pamphylia,
Egypt and the districts of Libya near Cyrene,
as well as travelers from Rome,
both Jews and converts to Judaism, Cretans and Arabs,
yet we hear them speaking in our own tongues
of the mighty acts of God."

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
Bless the LORD, O my soul!
O LORD, my God, you are great indeed!
How manifold are your works, O Lord!
the earth is full of your creatures;
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
May the glory of the LORD endure forever;
may the LORD be glad in his works!
Pleasing to him be my theme;
I will be glad in the LORD.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.
If you take away their breath, they perish
and return to their dust.
When you send forth your spirit, they are created,
and you renew the face of the earth.
R. Lord, send out your Spirit, and renew the face of the earth.

Reading II
Gal 5:16-25

Brothers and sisters, live by the Spirit
and you will certainly not gratify the desire of the flesh.
For the flesh has desires against the Spirit,
and the Spirit against the flesh;
these are opposed to each other,
so that you may not do what you want.
But if you are guided by the Spirit, you are not under the law.
Now the works of the flesh are obvious:
immorality, impurity, lust, idolatry,
sorcery, hatreds, rivalry, jealousy,
outbursts of fury, acts of selfishness,
dissensions, factions, occasions of envy,
drinking bouts, orgies, and the like.
I warn you, as I warned you before,
that those who do such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace,
patience, kindness, generosity,
faithfulness, gentleness, self-control.
Against such there is no law.
Now those who belong to Christ Jesus have crucified their flesh
with its passions and desires.
If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit.

Gospel
Jn 15:26-27; 16:12-15

Jesus said to his disciples:
"When the Advocate comes whom I will send you from the Father,
the Spirit of truth that proceeds from the Father,
he will testify to me.
And you also testify,
because you have been with me from the beginning.

"I have much more to tell you, but you cannot bear it now.
But when he comes, the Spirit of truth,
he will guide you to all truth.
He will not speak on his own,
but he will speak what he hears,
and will declare to you the things that are coming.
He will glorify me,
because he will take from what is mine and declare it to you.
Everything that the Father has is mine;
for this reason I told you that he will take from what is mine
and declare it to you."

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MP3 audio link to today’s readings:

.http://ccc.usccb.org/cccradio/NABPodcasts/09_05_31.mp3

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   Today in the Word            http://www.moodyradio.org/brd_ProgramToday.aspx?id=35654

Audio books I am listening to and other books or readings I am reading:

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Music I am listening:

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