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:  Ruth 1

In the days of the judges, there was famine in the land.
Because of the famine, 
a man from Bethlehem named Elimelech moved to Moab.

Elimelech took with him his wife Naomi and his two sons.

Elimelech died.
The two sons married Moabite women: Orpah and Ruth.
But then the two sons also died.

Naomi was heart-broken. 
She had lost her husband and two sons.

She decided to return to Bethlehem
and told her daughters-in-law to go back to their own homes.

Orpah went back to her people.
But Ruth with great loyalty and love chose to go with Naomi.

Ruth said:
"Wherever you go, I will go. Wherever you live, I will live.
Your people shall be my people.
Your God shall be my God.
Wherever you die, I will die, and there I will be buried."

Reflection: 
YouTube: Wherever you go (Monks of Weston Priory)

Prayer:  Dear God,  in time of trouble, 
 please help people to be loyal and kind to each other

Reading:  Psalm 71

In you, O Lord, I take refuge.
Please hear me and help me.

Be a rock where I can take refuge.
Rescue me from people who want to hurt me.

It is you, O Lord, who are my hope.
In you I have trusted since I was young.

From my mother's womb you have been my help.
My hope has always been in you.

Now that I am old, please do not forget me.
Now that my strength fails, do not abandon me.

Now that I am old and grey-headed,
may I continue to trust in you and proclaim your help.

To you I will sing with the harp.
All day long my tongue will tell of your goodness to me.

Reflection: 
Looking back on God's goodness to us right through our lives
gives us hope and trust for the future

Prayer: Lord, may all elderly people put their trust and hope in you

Reading:  One John 1

Something which has existed since the beginning,
that we heard,
that we saw with our own eyes,
that we touched with our hands:
the Word, who is life
- this is our subject

That life was made visible.
We saw it, and we are giving our testimony,
telling you of the eternal life
which was with the Father and has been made visible to us

Reflection: 
As we think about Jesus and his words and his actions, we should often remember that as God the Son he has always existed. His human birthday is December 25, but he doesn't have a divine birthday!

Prayer:  Jesus, Word-made-flesh, you are the Way, the Truth and the Life

Reading:  John 12

Many people believed in Jesus, even some important people,
but they did not admit it, through fear of being expelled from the prayer hall. They put honor from people before the honor that comes from God

Jesus said openly "I, the light, have come into the world, so that whoever believes in me, need not stay in the dark any more"

Reflection:
The sentence in green (They put ...) is a good one for politicians who don't follow their principles

Prayer: Jesus, true Light of the world, please help me put honor from you before honor from people