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86.
The universe
as a whole, in all its manifold relationships, shows forth the
inexhaustible riches of God.
Saint
Thomas Aquinas wisely noted that multiplicity and variety
“come from the intention of the first agent” who willed that
“what was wanting to one in the representation of the divine
goodness might be supplied by another”,[60]
inasmuch as God’s goodness “could not be represented
fittingly by any one creature”.[61]
Hence
we need to grasp the variety of things in their multiple
relationships.[62]
We understand better the importance and meaning of each creature
if we contemplate it within the entirety of God’s plan.
As
the Catechism teaches: “God wills the interdependence of
creatures. The sun and the moon, the cedar and the little
flower, the eagle and the sparrow: the spectacle of their
countless diversities and inequalities tells us that no creature
is self-sufficient. Creatures exist only in dependence on each
other, to complete each other, in the service of each other”.[63]
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Numbers
25
For a while the
Israelites settled in the area of Shittim.
In that place the Israelite men
gave themselves over to debauchery with the women of Midian.
The Israelites joined these women in sacrifices to local idols.
God therefore sent a plague to punish the Israelites,
and thousands of people died.
God commanded Moses to execute Israelites
who had taken
part in sacrifices to local idols.
Phinehas the priest, son of Eleazar, son of Aaron
showed his loyalty and zeal by personally
executing one of the main offenders, at a time when most people didn't care what was happening.
Dear God, please help us
to care about what goes on around us
and what is happening in the world
My
recording of this reading
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Psalm
119
They are happy who follow God's word,
those who seek God with all their hearts.
How can young people avoid evil?
By seeking you and obeying you, Lord.
Open my eyes, Lord, that I may understand the beauty of your word.
Lord, when I'm worried or in trouble,
your word revives me and gives me strength.
Lord, keep my eyes from what is false.
Bend my heart to your word and not to love of gain.
The word from your mouth means more to me
than silver and gold.
The unfolding of your word gives light
and teaches simple people.
Lord, thank you for your word
which gives peace to our hearts
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Acts
4.1-12
While Peter was talking to the crowd, some
religious leaders and soldiers came and arrested Peter and John
The next day the leaders held a meeting and
asked the prisoners: "By what power and by whose name did you
heal the crippled beggar?"
Peter, filled with the Holy Spirit, replied
"The cripple is able to stand up perfectly healthy because he was
healed by Jesus the Nazarene, the one you crucified, whom God raised from
the dead
Salvation comes no other way. Only by the name
of Jesus can we be saved"
Jesus, your name means "God saves", you are indeed the Saviour
of the world
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Mark 3.20-21;
31-35
Jesus went back to Capernaum. Such a crowd gathered that he could not even have a meal
When his family heard about such things,
they set out to take care of him, thinking that he was crazy.
His mother and brothers arrived at the house.
Standing outside, they sent in a message asking for him.
Jesus was told "Your mother and brothers
and sisters are outside asking for you". Jesus replied
"Who are my mother and brothers?".
Then looking round at the people sitting in a circle about him, he said
"Here are my mother and my brothers. Anyone who does the will of God,
that person is my brother and sister and mother". Jesus, please help me to do
your will,
even if people sometimes think I'm crazy
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125.
To understand this
reality (popular piety) we need to approach it with the gaze of
the Good Shepherd, who seeks not to judge but to love. Only
from the affective connaturality born of love can we appreciate
the theological life present in the piety of Christian peoples,
especially among their poor.
I
think of the steadfast faith of those
mothers tending their sick children who, though perhaps barely
familiar with the articles of the creed, cling to a rosary;
or of all the hope poured into a candle
lit in a humble home with a prayer for help from Mary, or in the
gaze of tender love directed to Christ crucified.
No
one who loves God’s holy people will view these actions as the
expression of a purely human search for the divine. They
are the manifestation of a theological life nourished by the
working of the Holy Spirit who has been poured into our hearts.
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Please
join me in praying for one part of the world each day of the
week:
Sun:
Africa
Mon:
Europe & Russia Tues:
South Asia Wed:
East Asia
Thurs:
S.E. Asia & Pacific
Frid:
South America
Sat:
Central & North America
Jesus,
today, Friday,
please bless the people of South
America
And praying for prisoners in one
part of China each day of the month:
On this 25th of
the month, Jesus please bless the prisoners of Ningxia
And
praying for one of the
world's poorest countries each day of the month:
On this 25th
of the month, Jesus please bless the people of Comoros
And
praying for one Islam-related
intention each day of the
week:
Jesus,
on this Muslim day of prayer, please bless all Muslims! |
This
website's Tanzania
File
(stopping Africans from being tricked into
bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from Tanzanian inmates in Hong Kong prisons
This
website's South
America file
(stopping
South Americans from being tricked into bringing drugs to HK)
- letters
from South American inmates in Hong Kong prisons
This
website's HK
Asylum Seekers' File
(stopping
South Asians from being "people smuggled" to HK) |
