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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:  Ecclesiastes 3

There's a time and a season for everything:

A time for giving birth,
a time for dying.

A time for tears and mourning,
a time for laughter and dancing.

A time for embracing,
a time to refrain from embracing.

A time for keeping silent,
a time for speaking.

Reflection:
YouTube of famous song using using above words: Turn, Turn, Turn

Prayer: Dear Lord, please help me to do the right thing at the right time

If the Lord does not build the house, 
in vain do its builders labor.

If the Lord does not watch over the city,
in vain does the watchman keep vigil.

Success comes not from earlier rising or from going later to rest,
but from the Lord's blessing.

Success is from the Lord
who blesses the womb of  his beloved while she sleeps.

Truly, children are a gift from the Lord,
a blessing, the fruit of the womb.

Reflection:
I once heard a young lady say "I'm not going to be a baby factory".
Now she's a devoted and most loving mother of two beautiful children

Prayer: Lord, many people these days don't want children. Please help such people understand that children are a blessing

I saw the Holy City, the New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven.
It had God's glory, and glittered like a precious diamond

There was no temple in the city, since the Lord God and the Lamb were themselves the temple

The city did not need sun or  moon for light, since it was lit by the radiant glory of God and of the Lamb

Reflection:
No electricity bills in Heaven!
"God from God, light from light"

Prayer: Jesus, Light of the world, Light of Heaven, we adore you, Lord!

About 30 years after Jesus was born,
a man began preaching repentance,
and baptizing people in the river Jordan.

This man was John the Baptist.
His message was
"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand".

John fulfilled the prophecy:
"A voice cries in the wilderness: prepare a way for the Lord".

John said "I baptize you with water,
but one is coming who  will baptize you with the Holy Spirit".

Then Jesus came from Galilee to the Jordan to be baptized by John.
After Jesus was baptized, the heavens opened,
and Jesus saw the Spirit of God coming down on him like a dove.

And a voice from heaven said
"This is my Son, the Beloved.
My favor rests on him".

Reflection:    
Every Christian is meant to be a missionary, preparing the way for Jesus.
Yesterday, did I do anything
- a prayer
- a conversation, phone call, email
- an act of kindness
to prepare a way for Jesus in the hearts of people around me?

 Prayer: Jesus, please help me to prepare your way, like John the Baptist