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Message of the Day
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"The more we love God, the more we will want to love Him."
- St. Joaquina
"We are born to love, we live to love, and we will die to love still more."
- St. Joseph Cafasso -
(Yes, it's all about love and loving, and the good news is that God can be loved. Open yourself to this great love this
day.)
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Lectionary Readings
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2 THES 3:6-10, 16-18; PS 128:1-2, 4-5; MT 23:27-32
R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord.
Blessed are you who fear the LORD,
who walk in his ways!
For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;
blessed shall you be, and
favored.
Behold, thus is the man blessed
who fears the LORD.
The LORD bless you from Zion:
may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.
USCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Gospel
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The Lord Jesus calls us to be vigilant in watching for his return and to be ready to meet
him when he calls us to himself. The Lord gives us his Holy Spirit so that we may have the wisdom, help, and strength we need to turn away from sin to embrace God's way of love, justice, and holiness. The Lord's warning of judgment causes dismay for those who are unprepared, but it brings joyful hope to those who eagerly wait for his return in glory. God's judgment is good news for those who are ready to meet him. Their reward is God himself, the source of all truth, beauty, goodness,
love and everlasting life.
"Lord Jesus, you have captured my heart and it is yours. Take it that I may have you alone as my treasure and joy. Make me strong in faith, steadfast in hope, and generous in love that I may seek to please you in all things and bring you glory."
DailyScripture.Net
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Spiritual Reading
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The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous And if it be thus,
trust then steadfastly that it is only God that stirreth thy will and thy desire plainly by Himself, without means either on His part or on thine. And be not feared, for the devil may not come so near. He may never come to stir a man's will, but occasionally and by means from afar, be he never so subtle a devil. For sufficiently and without means may no good angel stir thy will: nor, shortly to say, nothing but only God. So that thou mayest conceive here by these words somewhat (but much more
clearly by the proof), that in this work men shall use no means: nor yet men may not come thereto with means. All good means hang upon it, and it on no means; nor no means may lead thereto.
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34
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