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 

O Holy Spirit, please guide me as I read these passages for today. 
May these passages give me hope, strength, wisdom, courage and peace for my daily life 

Once again the Israelites attacked the town of Ai,
this time with a special strategy:

5,000 men went by night to the back of the town 
and hid themselves in the nearby hills.

In the morning Joshua and the rest of the people
marched towards the front of Ai.

When the king of Ai saw them coming, 
he led his people out for battle.

In chasing the Israelites,
the king of Ai left his town undefended.

Then the 5,000 Israelites attacked
Ai from the rear and set it on fire.

When the men of Ai looked back and saw their town on fire,
they realized they were caught in a trap.

The Israelites easily won the battle
and captured Ai.

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.

Lord, please help me to do more for the poor

What makes us God's friends is not obedience to the Law,
but faith in Jesus Christ

I have been crucified with Christ, and I live now,
not with my own life, but with the life of Christ who lives in me

The life I now live in this body, I live in faith: 
faith in the Son of God who loved me and who sacrificed himself for my sake

Jesus, help me understand how you live in me, and I live in you

Jesus was put on the cross sometime after  9am.
From about noon until 3pm there was darkness over all the land

About 3pm Jesus cried out the words of Psalm 22
"My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?"

A little while later he again cried out in a loud voice.
Then he died.
At that moment the holy curtain in the Temple was torn in two from top to bottom

The leader of the Roman soldiers who crucified Jesus,
when he saw how Jesus died,
said "Truly this man was a son of God"

Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for the salvation of the world