SOLEMNITY OF ST.
JOSEPH
Patron of the Church
Introduction
COVID Prayer - #22
You have Transformed the Face of the Earth
Lord, our God, you have brought us into the middle of a battle: a battle fought with an almost invisible enemy – a virus; a battle fought not by soldiers but by doctors and nurses; a battle not fought by guns and tanks but by simple soaps and medicines; a battle fought not on the battlefield but in our homes and hospitals; a battle fought not as a battalion, but in isolation and self-distancing. You have taught us, Lord, discipline and contentment with little essentials in this battle. You have made us realize, Lord, that the enemy is within and not outside.
Lord, our God, you have brought us into the middle of a battle: a battle fought with an almost invisible enemy – a virus; a battle fought not by soldiers but by doctors and nurses; a battle not fought by guns and tanks but by simple soaps and medicines; a battle fought not on the battlefield but in our homes and hospitals; a battle fought not as a battalion, but in isolation and self-distancing. You have taught us, Lord, discipline and contentment with little essentials in this battle. You have made us realize, Lord, that the enemy is within and not outside.
Easter 3rd Week, Thursday, Apr 30
Acts 8:26-48 / John 6:44-51
Jesus talks about
the Father: “Only the Son has seen the Father.”
A college student
said to his theology professor, “I cannot believe in God any longer.” The
professor stunned the student by saying, “Maybe I should congratulate you for
no longer believing in God.” “What do you mean by that?” said the student. His
professor replied, “Perhaps the idea of God that you have in your mind is so
distorted that you should
reject it.”
Jesus, the Bread of Life - Prayer -3
The Bread from Sweat, Tears and Blood
Lord, you have designed
that for every drop of sweat, a seed is taken and planted, for every drop of
tear, the ground is watered and the seed is germinated and for every drop of
blood that is shed, the seed of conversion is produced. Wasn’t it your design,
Lord, that Stephen’s blood become the seed of Saul’s conversion? Let not, Lord,
no drop of sweat, no drop of tear and no drop blood of your people be shed
without making your mission in this world accomplished! Without making it your
Bread of Life in this hungry, thirsty and starving world.
Easter 3rd Week,Wednesday, Apr 29
Acts
8:1-8 / John 6:35-40
Jesus
speaks about eternal life: “Whoever believes in me will have eternal life.”
When Wernher von
Braun died, Time
magazine called him the 20th-century Columbus. Before he died, von Braun gave
this testimony concerning life after death: “I think science has a real
surprise for the skeptics....Nothing in nature,
not even the tiniest particle, can disappear without a trace. Nature does not
know extinction. All it knows is transformation....“Everything
science has taught me— and continues to teach me— strengthens my belief in the
continuity of our spiritual existence after death.”
I am the Bread of life - Reflection
'I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.' - John 6:35-51
Bread is a wonderfully sustaining foodstuff. We could look at the individual ingredients and concoct a sermon simply on those, the yeast, the salt, the grain which yields the wheat flour, the water which binds them all together - they all can have a spiritual significance which Jesus himself used in the stories that he told. But let's look at the finished product and how we an relate that to the meaning that Jesus was inferring to the crowd who had so eagerly followed him all day, and seen him perform a culinary miracle with a few fish and some loaves of bread.
Bread of Life: Somewhere a Miracle Occurs - No. 2
Jesus, the Bread of
Life- Prayer -2
Somewhere a Miracle Occurs
Somewhere, Lord, a miracle occurs, when a seed is sown in
fertile ground, germinates, grows, ripens and in due season will be harvested. Grains
of wheat.
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