April 5th Passion Sunday
Merciful God, Your love for us goes beyond measure.
It is really, very, very hard for us to truly understand the love that You have for us.
A love that led You to the cross, so that we might be saved, and have eternal life.
Jesus, we all caused Your agony, and pain, and yet You forgave us.
Your love cannot be measured.
Jesus, grace us to love all, as You love.
Jesus, grace us to forgive all, as You have forgiven us.
Grant us the desire to come and sit before Your crucifix, and truly spend time in seeing Your love for us
hanging on the cross.
Let us be amazed and humbled, help us to get to the Sacrament of reconciliation, and so enter into Easter
free of the stain of humanity's sins.
Amen and Amen.
Thank You Lord, for loving us totally.
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One Bread, One Body
This weeks readings and reflections
Sunday ROCKY ROAD
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"The Master needs them." -Matthew 21:3
Before Jesus' entry into Jerusalem, the donkeys cooperated when Jesus had need of them (Mt 21:3). The
palm branches waved in praise of Jesus and lay prostrate before Him (Mt 21:8). Even the rocks were poised
and ready to worship Jesus (Lk 19:40). Most of creation was in step with the Son of God as His ministry
reached its culmination in Jerusalem.
While the asses were ready when Jesus needed them, Judas wasn't. He was too busy looking for an
opportunity to hand Jesus over to His opponents (Lk 22:6). The rocks were ready when their time came, but
Peter, whom Jesus named "Rock," wasn't. He denied he even knew Jesus (Mt 26:72, 74). Neither were any of
the other disciples ready. While Jesus was abandoning Himself for the disciples, they were abandoning Him
(Mt 26:56). The Jewish leaders, who had been studying their entire life in preparation for the coming
Messiah, weren't ready either. When it came time to speak up for their long-awaited Messiah, they yelled,
"Crucify Him!" (Mt 27:22)
The earth, animals, and plants are ready for the Messiah and Holy Week. What about you? Are you ready to
pass the Messiah-test? Will the rocks and the asses outdo you? "The Master needs" you (Mt 21:3). Watch and
pray this week and forever with Him.
Prayer: Jesus, I devote my life to You. May my total love for You be as a soothing balm to bring You
comfort and joy.
Promise: "This is My blood, the blood of the covenant, to be poured out in behalf of many for the
forgiveness of sins." -Mt 26:28
Praise: The Lord said that even if the disciples "were to keep silence, I tell you the very stones would
cry out" (see Lk 19:40). Praise You, Jesus, Master of all creation!
Monday CLEARLY AND COMPLETELY IN LOVE
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"Mary brought a pound of costly perfume made from genuine aromatic nard, with which she anointed Jesus'
feet. Then she dried His feet with her hair." -John 12:3
Tuesday NIGHT OR LIGHT?
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"It was night." -John 13:30
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Thank you for all the blessings love and acceptance.
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May I never fall back into my old sins. Give me Faith, Hope, Humility, and charity. Amen!
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Please help me too
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Dear lord..pls help me in my current relationship situation. Pls touch the heart of my nikhil and fill it
with so much of love and care for me . Lord bless us so that we may never surrender to whatever challenges
that come our way.pls remove all negativity and misunderstanding between us.heal the division between us
god. We are sorry for our sins pls forgive us. Put us in each other's heart and mind.pls touch his heart
and fill it with so much of love and care for me.pls stop him to block me from everywhere Amen
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the readings for the daily Mass. It is available 24 hours a day and 7 days a week. Callers may also
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Pope Francis, Shepherd of Truth
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Notable quotations from Pope Francis and official teachings of the Roman Catholic Church
END HUNGER
WE CAN DO IT
We do indeed have the adequate means and framework so that beautiful words and good wishes may become
an action plan of substance that leads effectively to the eradication of hunger in our world. To this
end we need joint efforts, upright hearts, and persistent concern to firmly and resolutely make the
other's problems one's own.
"LACK OF POLITICAL WILL"
There is a fundamental lack of political will. What is needed is the willingness to end hunger, and
this ultimately will not happen without a moral conviction that is shared by all peoples and all
religious persuasions, where the integral good of the person is at the heart of all initiatives and
consists in "doing to another what we would want done to ourselves."
DON'T BE INDIFFERENT
... These are some reflections I wish to share with those men and women who do not allow themselves to
succumb to indifference; who hear the cry of those who do not have the minimum needed to lead a
dignified life.
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