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This plan follows the Sunday liturgy:  reading + psalm + reading + gospel               From  www.simplebible.info              Previous Bible Blogs 

O Holy Spirit, may these passages give me hope, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for my daily life     Chinese text

  Reading:  Exodus 4 

Moses said to God
"What if the people won't believe you sent me?"

God said "Throw your staff onto the ground."
When Moses threw his staff onto the ground,
it became a snake.

"Catch it by the tail" said God.
When Moses caught it by the tail,
it changed back into a staff.

Moses said to God "I'm a poor speaker."
God said "Aaron your older brother can be your mouthpiece.
Now go back to Egypt.  It's safe to go back now;
the people who wanted to kill you are dead."

Back in Egypt, 
Moses and Aaron gathered the Israelite leaders
and told them all that God had said.
The elders rejoiced that God was going to help them.

Reflection:
Why did God choose Moses?

Prayer: Dear God, please give me a bit more of Moses' humility

Reading: Psalm 41

Blessed the person who helps the poor and the weak.
He himself will be helped by the Lord when he is sick and in trouble.

The Lord will help him on his bed of pain.
The Lord will bring him back from sickness to health.

Reflection:
Helping the poor is good for ....our health!

Prayer: Lord, please help me to do more for the poor

Reading:  Ephesians 2 

In God's Church you are not foreigners. You are citizens

You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets
for its base. Christ Jesus himself is the foundation stone

You are being built into a house where God lives

Reflection: 
Some countries, in their immigration documents, refer to other nationalities as "foreigners".  Not a nice word.
In the Church: no foreigners!

Prayer:  Jesus, be the foundation stone of my life, and don't let me think of others - in my country or in the Church - as "foreigners"

Reading:  Luke 4

Jesus went to the home of Simon Peter. Simon's mother-in-law was sick in bed with a fever. Jesus was asked to help her. He bent over her, rebuked the fever and it left her. She immediately got up and served her guests

After the Sabbath finished at sunset, everyone who had sick friends brought them to Jesus. Laying his hands on each of them, he healed them

The next morning Jesus got up early and went to a lonely place to pray.  People found him and asked him not to leave the area. But he replied "I must proclaim the Good News of the kingdom of God to other towns too, because that is what I was sent to do"

Reflection:
Jesus "rebuked" the fever, he regarded it as something bad, wrong, evil
....not as something from God...not as "a cross to be carried"

Prayer: Jesus,  heal my friend ... (name)... who is sick