Computer Cud    Vatican II asks us to read the Bible every day, 
 'to have a burning love'   for the Word of God           Resolution

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

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

  Reading:  Exodus 20 

The Ten Commandments given by God to Moses:

 1: I am the Lord your God. Do not worship anyone or anything else.

 2: Use my name with respect. Do not insult my name.

 3: Make the Sabbath Day a holy day each week.

 4: Honor your father and your mother.

 5: Do not kill.

 6: Do not commit adultery.

 7: Do not steal.

 8: Do not tell lies.

 9: Do not lust after someone else's wife.

10: Do not desire what belongs to someone else.

Reflection:
If we did a better job at keeping the above commandments, what a better place our world would be. So many places are plagued by corruption because the above commandments are largely ignored

Prayer: Dear God, please help us  put these commandments into practice

Reading: Psalm 78

O God, the nations have invaded your sacred land,
they have profaned your holy temple.
They have made Jerusalem a heap of ruins.

We have become the taunt of our neighbours,
the mockery and scorn of those who surround us.

How long, O Lord, will all this last?
How long will this sorrow keep going?

Do not hold the guilt of our ancestors against us.
If their guilt is somehow influencing our situation now
please give peace and healing to everyone and everything
in our  history.

Let the groans of the prisoners come before you.
Let your strong arm reprieve those condemned to die.

O Lord, our God, help us and save us.
Let your face shine on us and we shall be saved.

Reflection: 
Books like Healing the Family Tree and Healing Life's Hurts
show how our present situation can be caused by something or someone in our family history

Prayer: Lord, please heal any problems in my family tree

Reading:  Philippians 2

O Lord, unite us in your love
and keep our minds in you

O Lord, unite us in your love
and keep our minds in you

Though you were God in state divine
you did not cling to what you were.
No, you shed your glory's shine
so as to live just like a slave

O Lord, unite us in your love
and keep our minds in you

You came on earth in human form
and you shared our troubled life.
A humbler man there never was,
even in death obedient

Yes, Lord, death upon a cross,
yes, upon a cross

Therefore are you raised on high
and you have the name of names.
At that name should bend the knee
and tongue confess:  Jesus Christ is LORD.
And tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD.
And tongue confess that Jesus Christ is LORD.
To the glory of God the Father

 Reflection and Prayer: 
- please listen to  this recording of above reading  

Reading:  Luke 7

John the Baptist, imprisoned by King Herod, heard  the news about Jesus.  John sent two of his friends to ask Jesus "Are you the promised One?"

Jesus replied "Go and tell John what you have seen today: the blind see again, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised to life, and the Good News is proclaimed to the poor"

Jesus then spoke to the people about John: "Everyone who accepted baptism from John acknowledged God's plan. But by refusing baptism from him, the religious leaders thwarted what God had in mind for them"

Reflection:
To refuse to accept the evidence of God's love in our world, in our lives, means a heart damaged by  a virus of spiritual sickness

Prayer: Jesus, please don't let me do anything to thwart your plan for my life