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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:  Baruch 3-4

Listen, Israel, to commands that bring life and peace.
Remember all that God has taught us.

As by your will you strayed away from God,
so now turn back and search for him ten times as hard.

Reflection: 
A person, a family, a group, an organisation, a nation
....can stray away from God...can forget God
...and thereby stray from the source of life and peace.
But it's not a one-way trip.
We can make the return journey, just by turning back and searching hard for God

Prayer: Lord, please help us not to stray from you....and help anyone who has strayed from you ...to come back to you

   Reading:  Psalm 104

Bless the Lord, my soul!
Lord God, how great you are.

You make the clouds your chariot.
You walk on the wings of the wind.

You make springs gush forth in the valleys.
They give drink to all the animals of the field.

You make grass grow for the cattle
and plants to provide food for people.

You give us  wine, to cheer our hearts
and oil to make our faces shine.

You made the moon to mark the months.
The sun knows the time for its setting.

How many are your works, O Lord.
In wisdom you have made them all.

The earth is full of your riches
and the sea is swarming with life.

All things, great and small, look to you for food.
You open your hand, they have their fill.

You send forth your spirit, and life is created.
You renew the face of the earth.

I will sing to the Lord all my life.
May my thoughts be pleasing to him.

Reflection: 
One wise choice we can make, even if we live in a noisy, busy city:  
make a decision to notice flowers, trees, gardens as we pass them; notice the sounds of birds.  
After a while our noticing will become automatic
....and each sight of a lovely flower, each sound of a bird, will be picked up by our senses
...and give a little thrill of joy to our hearts
...which can lead on to a prayer to the One responsible for birds and flowers 

Prayer:  Lord, please help us more often notice the beauty of creation, and praise you for it

Reading:  Romans 5

By faith and through Jesus we can live in the friendship of God

We look forward to heaven and an end to all suffering

In the meantime our suffering teaches us patience. 
Patience produces perseverance. Perseverance produces hope

This hope is not imaginary.
It's real, since the love of God has been poured into our hearts by the Holy Spirit who has been given to us

Reflection:  
Our poor world is short of hope. Many people have "given up". 
Worried and sad faces are more common than happy faces.
If we stray from the Source of hope, no wonder our hope decreases.
If we return to the Source of hope, our hope will revive.

Prayer: Jesus, through your Holy Spirit, please give us more hope

Reading: Mark 3     

Jesus went up a hill and called  his disciples.
He chose 12 of them to be his special companions.

He commissioned them for preaching.
He gave them power to cast out devils.

The names of the 12:
Simon, to whom he gave the name Peter;
James and John the sons of Zebedee.

Andrew, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus,  Thaddaeus, Simon the Zealot
and Judas Iscariot the one who would betray him.

Reflection:
Jesus gave his first apostles power to heal.
The same power should be evident in today's apostles.
But how many bishops/pastors/priests have or exercise such a power?
Why so power-less?  
Many books written on this...many of them say: power-less because Holy Spirit not (much) involved

Prayer: Jesus, may all Gospel workers have the power of your Holy Spirit in their ministry