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This plan follows the Sunday liturgy:  reading + psalm + reading + gospel       From  www.simplebible.info         Previous R-R-P 

O Holy Spirit, please guide me as I read these passages for today.                     
May these passages give me hope, strength, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for my daily life     Chinese text

Reading:  Proverbs 18

The human heart is haughty until disaster strikes.
Humility goes before honor.

Don't reply to someone until you've listened to their views.
Be slow to interrupt someone who is speaking.

Reflection:
How many times each day do we interrupt someone who is speaking?
Sometimes it might be necessary to interrupt someone
e.g. someone who is "long-winded".
But usually we should let people finish making a point before we start speaking.

Prayer: Lord, please help me to be a good listener....and help me avoid interrupting people

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.

Reflection:
When we're "rattled", confused, "can't get going", "going round in circles"
....give a few minutes to Bible reading and notice the change:
God's word gives us energy, peace, strength and hope

Prayer: Lord, thank you for your word which gives peace to our hearts

I saw an angel flying high in the sky,  sent to announce
the Good News of eternity to every nation, race, language and tribe

He was calling: "Honor God and praise him.
Worship the maker of heaven and earth and sea.
The time has come for him to judge the world"

A voice from heaven said to me
 "Happy are those who are the Lord's friends when they die. 
Now they can rejoice for ever, since their good deeds go with them"

Reflection:
To be God's friends when we die. Nothing is more important than this

Prayer: Jesus, may I live and grow and die in your friendship

Joseph of Arimathea,  a disciple of Jesus, asked Pilate for the body of Jesus.
Pilate agreed and Jesus' body was taken down from the cross

Another man, Nicodemus, brought burial spices. 
He and Joseph wrapped Jesus' body in  linen cloths with the spices

Since the Passover was due to begin at sunset, 
they put the body in an  unused tomb close to  the place of Crucifixion

Reflection:
Dead bodies are not a pretty sight.
Jesus' body, after the scourging and crucifixion, must have looked hideous,
like a badly-mangled and disfigured body after a high-speed road accident.
Yet that same body of Jesus was like a seed going into the ground....about to become a plant

Prayer: Jesus, dead in the tomb, please give eternal life to everyone who dies today