7.01 to 7.03.15

7.01.15                  

Lectio: Mt 9.1-8

Meditatio:”Which is easier, 'Your sins are forgiven,' or to say, 'Rise and walk'." Mt 9.5

Oratio: O God, how hard it seems to us for the people of Jesus' time to believe and to forget how He showed His authority. In prayer thank the evangelists for recording His words and actions so we know in one source all the proofs that Jesus is the Son of God.

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 & meditate on the selected passage and hear what  God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect: "easier...forgive...rise"; what a demonstration Jesus did to counter the scribes' charge that He was blaspheming.  Seek to know Scripture well so as to uplifted by what a God we have in Jesus and what a man, too.

Tomorrow's reading: Jn 20.24-29

7.02.15

Lectio: Jn 20.24-29

Meditation: "Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed'." Jn 20.29b

Oratio: O God, to believe in You and Your Son requires us to rely on the testimony of others.  Gratefully we have such testimony and the Church has been its guardian down through the ages. Pray to readily accept the Church's witness and you will be blest.

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 & meditate on the selected passage and hear what  God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect: "Blessed...not seen...believed"; rejoice in the fact of your faith for Jesus has declared you blessed. Seek the grace to readily proclaim at the consecration "My Lord and My God" and the grace of your faith will richly bless you.

Tomorrow's reading: Mt 9.14-17


7.03.15

 Lectio: Mt 9.14-17                                                            
                                
Meditatio: “Jesus answered,’Can the wedding guests mourn, as long as the bridegroom is with them? The days will come when the b bridegroom is taken away from them, and they will fast.” Mt .15
 
Oratio: O God, one of the purposes for fasting was to hasten the coming of the Messiah. Since Jesus declared Himself the Messiah, it would be inappropriate for them to fast. Pray that your fasting will hasten Jesus taking possession of your heart and you will be greatly blest

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 & meditate on the selected passage and hear what  God is saying to you.

Operatio: reflect: wedding guests.mourn...bridegroom...with them”; Jesus made it cleat in His response to His critiques about fasting, that it would be inappropriate as long as He was with them. Seek the grace to fast and abstain on the days appointed for that will be pleading to God.

Tomorrow's reading: Mk 6.1-6a