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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 

Jephthah was judge in Israel for 6 years.
For the following 25 years,
Ibzan (7 years), Elon (10 years)  and Abdon  (8 years) were judges.

After these judges, the Israelites again were unfaithful to the Lord
and so they were oppressed by the Philistines for 40 years.

It was then that the angel of the Lord appeared to Manoah's wife
and said to her:

"You are barren and have had no child.
But you will soon conceive and bear a son.
No razor is to touch his head,
for he shall be dedicated to the Lord from his mother's womb.
It is he who will rescue Israel from the Philistines".

The woman gave birth to a son and called him Samson.
The child grew and the Lord blessed him.

Dear Lord, please bless all barren women

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.

Lord, please heal any problems in my family tree

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

Jesus, be the foundation stone of my life

Joseph and Mary moved back to their own town of Nazareth.
The child Jesus was filled with wisdom as he grew older

Each year  Joseph and Mary would take Jesus to Jerusalem for the celebration of the  Passover. When Jesus was 12 years old, they went to Jerusalem as usual

But when their traveling group left Jerusalem, Jesus stayed behind without his parents knowing it.  They presumed he was somewhere with the group . When they couldn't find him,
they went back to Jerusalem to look for him

After 2 days, they found him,  in the Temple, listening to the religion teachers
and asking them questions. People who heard him were astounded at his intelligence

His mother said to him "My child, why have you done this to us?
Your father and I have been really worried about you"

Jesus replied "Why were you looking for me? Didn't you know
that I must be concerned with my Father's work?"
But they didn't understand what he meant

He went with them to Nazareth and lived under their authority.
His mother stored all these things in her heart

Jesus, please help all "lost children" to be found!