Thank you Abba Father for your mercy on me, You have been kind and patient. When I was bent out of shape and would have been discarded by most, it was You who guided me and moulded me. You loved me in spite of my offenses against Your Will for me. You saw the good in me and looked upon my strengths and not my weaknesses. Truly I had not experienced such unconditional love before.
Throughout the ages, Your saving Word O Lord has been upon us. A living Word which transform and gives new life to all who receive it. One which transcends time for Your Word is eternal. And yet what is considered old in our minds illuminates the new and gives it new meaning, new dimensions, greater depths. Thank You Jesus for allowing all of us who have opened our hearts and minds to You, the oppprtunity to fall deeply in love with You; our living Word. And through You we bring forth and share the old and the new with all.
Thy Kingdom come, Thy Will be done for now and forever. Amen
FIRST READING
Jeremiah 18:1–6
GOSPEL
Matthew 13:47–53
Jesus said to the disciples:
“The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea, which collects fish of every kind. When it is full they haul it ashore and sit down to put what is good into buckets. What is bad they throw away. Thus it will be at the end of the age. The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous and throw them into the fiery furnace, where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.”
“Do you understand all these things?” They answered, “Yes.” And he replied, “Then every scribe who has been instructed in the Kingdom of heaven is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom both the new and the old.” When Jesus finished these parables, he went away from there.
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