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How easy it is to go with the crowd, with what is popular. To think that some laws are meant to be broken, or some rules don’t apply or are old fashioned. To do as we please when we please. If we have these thoughts how can we keep our Heavenly Father’s commandments? Given to us in love, so that we may live in His love and love one another without discrimination or reservation.

Many perhaps out of desperation seek foreign gods to help with a situation or sick loved one. Convincing themselves that it is okay or that it may still be only one god just many different ways of worship and so is just another way to reach God and seek His mercy and saving Grace.

My brothers and sisters in Christ, there is only one God. Who loves us so much He sent us His only begotten Son to love and save us. The Holy Spirit who proceeds from the Father and the Son; speaks to us as He has spoken through the prophets. He shows us the way to holiness and life with and in Him. He is the Lord the giver of life.

Let us remain in His love by turning away from Sin and being faithful to the Gospels. Amen

St Barnabas pray for us.

First Reading
1 Kgs 18:20-39

Gospel
Mt 5:17-19

Jesus said to his disciples: “Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill. Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law, until all things have taken place. Therefore, whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the Kingdom of heaven. But whoever obeys and teaches these commandments will be called greatest in the Kingdom of heaven.”

There will be periods in our lives where we will find ourselves facing certain challenges. In which all may look bleak and empty. Yet when we continue to walk with the Lord in faith and obedience, we will find ourselves not wanting or needing anything. Our Lord’s face shines on us.

Many having grown in faith however still hold to a ‘private’ worship. A self contained love for the Lord which hardly ever grows or blossoms. Some even hold to “It is between God and I alone.” While others over time allowing worldly values to mingle with our Kingdom values begin to lose the taste of Heaven.

Our love and worship of our Heavenly Father, our Lord Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit should shine brightly within us that it cannot be contained! It should penetrate our hearts, illumine our minds and shine forth from our very being; such that the light of Christ embraces all whom we meet. Darkness is compelled to retreat.

Glory and praise be to God our Father! Amen

FIRST READING
1 Kings 17:7–16

GOSPEL
Matthew 5:13–16

Jesus said to his disciples:
“You are the salt of the earth. But if salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. You are the light of the world. A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden. Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket; it is set on a lampstand, where it gives light to all in the house. Just so, your light must shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly Father.”