Welcome to my blog.
God speaks to us each day through the readings
from the Holy Bible. These are chosen under the inspiration of God’s Spirit and
provided for us by the Church founded and lead by the Spirit of Jesus.
You will find them here. If we take time daily to
read, understand and in silence to pray from our heart, Jesus, through his
Spirit, will nourish us and our life will be transformed.
May the Spirit of God be with you.
Sunday 7 June
2020
The Most Holy
Trinity
The Divine
Family invites you
Blest be God
the Father,
and the Only
Begotten Son of God,
and the Holy
Spirit,
for he has
shown us his merciful love.
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Prayer
Oh God our
Father, you are a God who lies hidden.
No human being
has ever seen you or can see you.
We cannot
know you nor your ways. You are totally
beyond us.
Before you the greatest is nothing.
In your love
and mercy, you have revealed yourself
in Jesus
Christ your Son. Through Jesus we can meet you,
love you and
serve you. Grant us your Holy Spirit
that through
the wisdom he gives us, we may open ourselves
to your love
for us.
We make our
prayer through your Son, the same Christ Jesus
Our Lord.
First reading
Exodus 34:4-6,8-9
'Lord, Lord, a God of tenderness and compassion'
With the two
tablets of stone in his hands, Moses went up the mountain of Sinai in the early
morning as the Lord had commanded him. And the Lord descended in the form of a
cloud, and Moses stood with him there.
He called on the name of the Lord. The Lord
passed before him and proclaimed, ‘The Lord, a God of tenderness and
compassion, slow to anger rich in kindness and faithfulness.’ And Moses bowed
down to the ground at once and worshipped. ‘If I have indeed won your favour,
Lord,’ he said ‘let my Lord come with us, I beg. True, they are a headstrong
people, but forgive us our faults and our sins, and adopt us as your heritage.’
THE WORD OF THE LORD
Prayerful reflection
God lives in unapproachable light (1 Timothy
6:16). He is in no way part of this universe. From the existence of the
universe, we can know he exists and we can know that he is infinite in every
perfection. But we can know nothing of how he is in himself. For us the God who
created the universe from nothing by the power of his Word, is a total mystery.
In front of him, we humans must remain in awesome and total silence. But to
those who seek him, he has revealed himself. In the Old Testament he revealed
himself through his prophets. Today we hear the witness of Moses: “The Lord, a
God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger rich in kindness and
faithfulness.” This is how Moses knew God. It is faltering and imperfect but is
true as far as it goes. Everest is the highest of mountains, but it can be
measured. The tenderness and compassion of God cannot be measured. The
‘mountain’ goes higher and higher and we never reach the summit. Before him we
sit in awe and silence, but completely relaxed knowing that he looks at us with
infinitely more love, tenderness and compassion than any mother ever
looked at the baby in her lap.
Do you enjoy to sit quietly in God’s presence? Are you spiritually
sick with sin? He loves you ‘more’. You are precious to him (Isaiah 43:5). He
does not want to lose you (John 6:38-39)
Responsorial Psalm
Daniel 3:52-56
To you glory
and praise for evermore.
You are
blest, Lord God of our fathers.
To you glory
and praise for evermore.
Blest your
glorious holy name.
To you glory
and praise for evermore.
You are blest
in the temple of your glory.
To you glory
and praise for evermore.
You are blest
on the throne of your kingdom.
To you glory
and praise for evermore.
You are blest
who gaze into the depths.
To you glory
and praise for evermore.
You are blest
in the firmament of heaven.
To you glory
and praise for evermore.
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Second reading
2 Corinthians 13:11-13 ·
The grace of Jesus Christ, the love of God, and the fellowship of the
Holy Spirit
Brothers, we
wish you happiness; try to grow perfect; help one another. Be united; live in
peace, and the God of love and peace will be with you.
Greet one another with the holy kiss. All the
saints send you greetings.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of
God and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all. THE WORD OF THE LORD
Prayerful reflection
Today
we celebrate the Most Blessed Trinity. We do not try to understand it. We can
never do that. We are to have a relationship with each of the members of the
Trinity. Each in his own way is “a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to
anger rich in kindness and faithfulness.” The Father loves creation, all of it
and everyone in it. He loves you and he loves me and there is no limit to his
love. Jesus taught us to call him ‘Abba’ – a term of great intimacy, such as a small
child would use of his/her father. When we had fallen into the hands of Satan
and sin, he sent his Son to be our Saviour.
His
Son emptied himself of all his divine prerogatives and became a human being
like us in all things. He is now the embodiment in a human being of “The Lord,
a God of tenderness and compassion, slow to anger rich in kindness and
faithfulness.” Now if we want to know how God relates to us, we must look at
Jesus. Jesus is God in human form. He lives among us still. He is the perfect
image of the Father, “Philip, he who has seen me, has seen the Father” (John)
Meet Jesus and you meet God. Only by knowing Jesus can we really know God. His
witness is not faltering nor imperfect. It is the perfect revelation. Through
him, we receive one grace after another.
In faith,
can you open yourself to the invitation of God, brought to you by Jesus, Son of
the Father? Come and live with us, he says.
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Gospel Acclamation
Rv1:8
Alleluia,
alleluia!
Glory be to
the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit;
the God who
is, who was, and who is to come.
Alleluia!
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Gospel
John 3:16-18
God sent his Son so that through him the world might be saved
Jesus said to
Nicodemus:
‘God loved
the world so much that he gave his only Son,
so that
everyone who believes in him may not be lost
but may have eternal
life.
For God sent
his Son into the world
not to
condemn the world,
but so that
through him the world might be saved.
No one who
believes in him will be condemned;
but whoever
refuses to believe is condemned already,
because he
has refused to believe in the name of God’s only Son.’
Prayerful
reflection
One day I realised that I was living, that I was someone, a human
being like every other human but different too. I discovered I am a unique,
conscious, thinking being, a person, a little universe in myself and in this
universe I am king. The Bible taught me that I am God’s gift to myself. He
created me. But why? Why did he create you? Today’s reading tells us the
reason.
God is not only creator; he wants to be a Father with children whom he
loves and who love him. And so, he created you and me. Our first parents,
deceived by Satan, rebelled and hid from God. Life became a desert as we know
it now. So, God sent his only Son as a human being into the world, to reveal to
us in way we humans can understand how he loves us and wants to give us Life,
if only we will choose it. Jesus came, lived among us, showed by living it how
we too should live. He taught us the truth about God and about life. He wanted
to reveal God’s love for his creatures. Why did he die on a Cross? He could
have saved us in any one of a thousand ways. He wanted to suffer life as we
suffer it and far worse. Like his brothers and sisters, he suffered. There is
no suffering that he too did not undergo, even to the ultimate humiliation and
torment of a Roman crucifixion. In this way he identified, freely and willingly
with everyone who suffers. He has trodden the road before us.
Now he offers freely ‘eternal life’ – to live with God in the intimacy
of love for all eternity. This is something no eye has seen, nor ear heard and
we can’t even imagine it. It is there for every human being who accepts the Son
who died on the Cross.
As a foretaste of this, everyone who accepts the Son receives the Spirit
of God who gives love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, generosity and
self-control. Already in this life they experience a joy which is
indescribable.
What a privilege to be who you are. how do you respond to this love
offered to you in and through Jesus?
Gal 4: 6
Since you are
children of God,
God has sent into
your hearts the Spirit of his Son,
the Spirit
who cries out: Abba, Father.
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Father, no
human eye can see you, no human mind
can understand
you, but you love your creatures,
even wayward
and indifferent ones too. To reveal your love
you sent your
Son as a human being to live among us.
He became our
brother and showed his ultimate love
by dying in
torment on a cross for us and still praying for those
who crucified
him. He gives his Spirit to those who accept him.
May the
Spirit move us to love and honour you,
through your
Son, Christ Jesus, our Lord.
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