12.07.13

Lectio: Mt 3.1-12                                                       

Meditatio: “Produce good fruits as evidence of your repentance.” Mt 3.8                   

Oratio: O God, You so much want us to return to You but You want us to show our interest by not simply expressing sorrow for our failings but by positive acts of goodness  as evidence of our repentance.

I remember John the Baptist in his proclamation to the people that the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand made it clear that repentance, and evidence of by deeds and not simply by words, is what You want from all who accept Your kingdom. 

Grant that I may heed the call to repent and to show it by striving with Your grace to live a life of love for You, for others and for self.

I ask this and all things in the name of Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with You
and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.

Contemplatio: spend some time in silence and meditate on the selected passage and hear what
God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect: "good fruits...evidence...repentance”; to repent means to turn around; to turn back to God and God’s way for us; and thereafter to bear good fruits as the result of our turning to Him; in prayer ask for the grace to show my sorrow for my sins not just in words but most especially in good deeds for that is what God wants of me.

Tomorrow's reading: Lk 1.26-38      

P.S. Remember in your prayers today all the brave men and women who died for us in WWII which began for our country on this very day in 1941.