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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 6-7

Even if a person studies wisdom, what use is it?
Wise person and fool both must die.

Yet wisdom gives protection and strength.
And wisdom reminds us that all of us make mistakes.
Therefore we should be slow to condemn others.

Reflection:
It's so easy to think badly of others who have made mistakes....e.g. prisoners and drug addicts.
But as we get to know them, and know that most of them come from troubled homes, most had little education etc
then think of our own background of happy homes and plenty of education....then we should indeed be very slow to condemn others

Prayer: Lord, may the memory of my own mistakes, and awareness of other's backgrounds, make me slow to judge other people

Out of the depths I cry to you, O Lord. 
Lord, hear my voice.

If you, O Lord, should  record our guilt,
Lord, who would survive?

But with you is found forgiveness.
For this we revere you.

My soul is waiting for the Lord.
I count on his word.

My soul is longing for the Lord
more than watchman for the daybreak.

With the Lord there is mercy
and fullness of redemption.

Israel indeed he will redeem
from all its  iniquity.

Reflection:
The good news: no matter how many mistakes, no matter how many sins, no matter how many times we come off the rails....God redeems us, picks us up and puts us back on the track

Prayer: Lord, please forgive me for all the bad things I have done

I, Jesus, have sent my angel to make these revelations to you
for the sake of the churches

I am of David's line, the Root of David,
the Bright Star of the Morning"

The Spirit and the Bride say: "Come".
Let all who want eternal life say: "Come"

Amen. Come, Lord Jesus!

Reflection:
This is our final reading from Revelation....from the last page of the Bible.
Next time, back to the Acts of the Apostles.
Each time we finish the Bible we experience an ever stronger longing for God's kingdom to come:
in our hearts, in our world, and especially....in Heaven!

Prayer: Come Lord Jesus! Come into my heart! Come into our world! Come on my last day!

After his time in the desert,
Jesus began preaching the same message as John the Baptist:
"Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close as hand".

Jesus called four fishermen to become "fishers of men":
Peter and his brother Andrew, James and his brother John.
They left their boats and went with Jesus.

Jesus went all round the area of Galilee,
preaching in local prayer halls
and healing all kinds of sick people

News spread about the sick being healed,
and soon even  people from distant places came to Jesus to be healed.

Reflection:    
Jesus is not a pie-in-the-sky person. He is totally down to earth, caring for the weakest and poorest members of the human family. His help is at hand everywhere and at any time.... like electricity....we just need to plug in and turn on the switch

 Prayer: Jesus, please heal the people I know who are sick: (...names...)