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

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 

Having returned from exile, 
the Jews started to rebuild their temple in Jerusalem.

But some enemies of Israel
tried to frighten and dishearten the Jews
from rebuilding the temple.

Dear God, when anyone tries to stop us from doing good, 
please give us courage to keep going

When people make fun of me for believing in you, Lord,
I deeply remember how you are my help and my shield.

Even when the whole world seems against me,
I can go to bed and sleep easy, knowing that you protect me.

O Lord, please rescue me from people who plot against me.
Lord our savior, please bless everyone who needs help.

Lord, thank you for your protection and help

For sure, some people will be self-centered and greedy; 
disobedient and ungrateful to parents; heartless, difficult to get along with;
slanderers, profligates and enemies of everything that is good

They will keep up the outward appearance of religion,
but will have rejected its inner power 

Have nothing to do with people like that

Jesus, may my faith be real, not just something external

As Jesus caught sight of Jerusalem, he shed tears over it and said
"How I wish you had accepted my message of peace.
You will be totally destroyed, because you rejected God's offer of grace"

Jesus then went into the Temple and drove out the sellers.
According to the Scripture", he said,
"my house will be a house of prayer. But you have turned it into a robbers' den"

Each day Jesus taught in the Temple. The leaders wanted to do away with him,
but they didn't know how to, since most of the ordinary  people had great respect for Jesus

Jesus, please don't let me ever reject your friendship