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

  Reading:  Deuteronomy 32

The Song of Moses:

Listen, O heavens, and I will speak;
let the earth hear the words on my lips.
May my teaching fall like the rain,
my speech descend like the dew,
like rain drops on the young green,
like showers falling on the grass.

For I shall praise the name of the Lord.
O give glory to this God of ours!
The Rock - his deeds are perfect,
and all his ways are just,
a faithful God, without deceit,
a God who is right and just.

Those whom he begot unblemished
have become crooked, false, perverse.
Is it thus you repay the Lord,
O senseless and foolish people?
Is he not your father who created you,
he who made you, on whom you depend?

Remember the days of old,
consider the years that are past;
ask you father and he will show you,
ask your elders and they will tell you.

When the Most High gave the nations their heritage
and disposed men according to his plan,
in fixing the boundaries of the nations
he thought first of Israel's sons.
For Israel was the Lord's possession,
Jacob the one he had chosen.

God found him in a wilderness,
in fearful, desolate wastes;
he surrounded him, he lifted him up,
he kept him as the apple of his eye.

Like an eagle that watches its nest,
that hovers over its young,
so he spread his wings; he took him,
placed him on his outstretched wings.
The Lord alone was his guide
and no other god was with him.

Reflection:
The aim of this song is to remind us not to forget our Creator

Prayer: Dear Lord, thank you for life and all your love and care

Reading: Psalms 14-15

So many people live and act as if God doesn't exist.
Some foolish people even say there is no God.

So many people have left the way of justice and truth.
So many people follow the way of falsehood.

Lord, help us to live as we should.
Help us not to slander, help us not to wrong others.

Reflection:
Only foolish people would say they never had any human parents.
Only foolish people say that this beautiful universe had no Creator.
Once you say "there's no God", then there's no reason for trying to live a good life

Prayer: Lord, we believe....and we rely on your grace to follow the way of justice and truth

Reading:  Hebrews 12-13

Your ancestors were at Mount Sinai when God spoke to Moses.
But you already have one foot in the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerusalem, where millions of angels gather in praise

So, continue to live a life of love and hospitality.
Keep in mind those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them

Keep your marriage undefiled. Avoid greed. Be content with what you have

Reflection: 
As a prison chaplain I find the green line very appealing
 
Prayer:  Jesus, help me remember heaven....and people in prison

Reading:  John 4

Jesus visited a Samaritan town. Near a well there, Jesus said to a Samaritan woman "Give me a drink"

He also said to her  "If you drink water from this well, you will get thirsty again. But if you drink the water that I shall give, you will never be thirsty again.

The water that I shall give will turn into a spring of eternal life inside you"

Reflection:
Let's use water to remind us of the Holy Spirit.  
e.g. while washing face, in the heart/mind a simple prayer: Come Holy Spirit!

Prayer:  Jesus, please give me a drink of your eternal life water
 - which is your Holy Spirit