I choose love. No occasion justifies hatred; no injustice warrants bitterness, I choose love. Today I will love God and what God loves.
- Max Lucado
(Envision the likely circumstances of your day, and pray this affirmation with them in mind?)
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Wis 3:1-9; Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6; Rom 6:3-9
Jn 6:37-40
Jesus said to the crowds:
“Everything that the Father gives me will come to me,
and I will not reject anyone who comes to me,
because I came down from heaven not to do my own will
but the will of the one who sent me.
And this is the will of the one who sent me,
that I should not lose anything of what he gave me,
but that I should raise it on the last day.
For this is the will of my Father,
that everyone who sees the Son and believes in him
may have eternal life,
and I shall raise him on the last day.”
Reflection on the Scriptures
Feast of All Souls
Loving God, Creator God, God who delights in us and with whom we will spend our eternal days, we come to you in prayer today.
We pray for all those who have departed this earthly life, especially those in purgatory, that they soon might come to experience the fullness of joy in heaven.
We pray in gratitude for their lives, their witness of Your love, and their impact on earth.
We pray for all those who mourn the death of a loved one, may they experience your comfort and grace.
We pray in thanksgiving for the gift of eternal life with you, may each of the faithfully departed come to rest in peace with you forever
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We pray all this through the intercession of the Communion of Saints, whose prayers join in ours today and always.
Amen.
- by Beth Samson
The Son of God Became Human
From The Catechism of the Catholic Church
Part One, Section Two, Chapter Three
Article 8: I Believe in the Holy Spirit
IV. THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST IN THE FULLNESS OF TIME
"Rejoice, you who are full of grace"
725 Finally, through Mary, the Holy Spirit begins to bring us, the objects of God's merciful love,107 into communion with Christ. And the humble are always the first to accept him: shepherds, magi, Simeon and Anna, the bride and groom at Cana, and the first disciples.
726 At the end of this mission of the Spirit, Mary became the Woman, the new Eve ("mother of the living"), the mother of the "whole Christ."108 As such, she was present with the Twelve, who "with one accord devoted themselves to prayer,"109 at the dawn of the "end time" which the Spirit was to inaugurate on the morning of Pentecost with the manifestation of the Church.
(Footnote references in the Catechism.)
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