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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:  Jeremiah 36

God told Jeremiah to write down
all the messages he had spoken for God.

So Jeremiah got Baruch to make a written record of all his messages.
Baruch wrote the messages on a scroll.

Some good officials took the scroll to the king to read.
The officials hoped the king would obey the words of the scroll.

The king had the scroll read aloud for him.
As each section was read, the king used a knife to cut off the section,
and then threw the section into a fire.

Eventually the whole scroll was burnt.
The king then issued an order for  Jeremiah to be arrested.

God protected Jeremiah and did not allow him to be arrested for the time being.
God also told Jeremiah to have another scroll made.

Reflection: 
At any level of society, a leader who is not interested in God's word is usually not much of a leader 

Prayer: Lord, please move world leaders to open their hearts to your message of justice and peace and love

Reading:   Psalm 98

Sing a new song to the Lord for he has worked wonders.
His right hand has brought salvation.

The Lord has made known his salvation.
He has shown his justice to the nations.

He has remembered his truth and love 
for the house of Israel.

All the ends of the earth have seen the salvation of our God.
Shout to the Lord all the earth, ring out your joy.

Sing psalms to the Lord with the harp,
with the sound of music.

Let the sea, the world and all peoples
acclaim the King, the Lord.

Let the rivers clap their hands
and the hills ring out their joy

at the presence of the Lord, 
for he comes to rule the earth.

He will rule the world with justice
and the peoples with fairness.

Reflection: 
God loves all peoples in all nations, just like parents love all their children.
All peoples/nations should love God, just like all children should love their parents

Prayer: Lord, may all peoples in all countries know your love and goodness

Reading:  Romans 1

I thank God for the way people everywhere speak of your faith

I never fail to mention you in my prayers. I pray for the opportunity to visit you if God wills

I long to see you to encourage you and to be encouraged by you

For I am not ashamed of the Good News. 
It is the power of God saving everyone who has faith, Jews first then everyone else

Reflection: 
Paul, like many Christians of all ages, had a list of special people for whom he prayed every day

Prayer: Jesus, please bless all those on my list of special people for whom I pray each day

Reading: Mark 1

A leper came to Jesus and on his knees pleaded
"If you want to, you can heal me".

Feeling sorry for him, Jesus stretched out his hand,
touched him and said "Of course I want to heal you. Be healed!"

The leprosy left him at that moment and he was healed.

Jesus told the man not to tell people what had happened
(in case people misunderstood Jesus' spiritual mission and tried to use him politically).  But the man told everyone.

Soon Jesus could not go openly into any town (for fear the crowds would become unruly) so he stayed in remote places.

Even so, people from all around the district would come to him.

Reflection:
Never once did Jesus say "No" or "Sorry, not this time" to anyone who asked for healing.
Jesus' policy: "Of course I want to heal you. Be healed!"

Prayer: Jesus, please heal people who are lepers