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Why do we cling to our mortality and jealously guard our faith? Do we behave as we should as children of God our Father or some elite religious group? Why do we limit ourselves by thanking and praising God with ordinary human thoughts? That is to say we utter what we think our Lord wants to hear.

Let us praise our Lord rejoicing in the Spirit! Let our lives led in holiness be our living testimony to His glory. Let the Word of God be in our hearts and on our lips. And His love we have been given in abundance be shared with all whom we meet. And may almighty God our Father bless us all, in the name of the Father, the Son and Holy Spirit. Amen

First reading
Galatians 3:22-29

Gospel
Luke 11:27-28

As Jesus was speaking, a woman in the crowd raised her voice and said, ‘Happy the womb that bore you and the breasts you sucked!’ But he replied, ‘Still happier those who hear the word of God and keep it!’

If we have made up our minds to believe only what we see with our eyes and again only what we can explain, without having faith then we are in fact blind to the wonders of God our Father. For it is through faith we are His children.

Our hearts are opened as we sing the glory of God when we witness His hand in our lives. In the miracle of birth, in the beauty and order of nature, in the sun and the moon, in the liberation of the oppressed, in the peace and joy of the reconciled, in the love we have for one another. Impossible it is to list them all for our Father’s love cannot be contained.

No evil can befall us for we are children of the almighty God our Father. And so no evil do we ever need fear for we are under our Lord’s protection. Our Lord dwells in us as we dwell in Him.

We are doomed only by our choice of evil over good. Of choosing to sin over walking in the light.

Lord Jesus You are my Lord and King, rule in my heart always. Amen

First reading
Galatians 3:7-14

Gospel
Luke 11:15-26

When Jesus had cast out a devil, some of the people said, ‘It is through Beelzebul, the prince of devils, that he casts out devils.’ Others asked him, as a test, for a sign from heaven; but, knowing what they were thinking, he said to them, ‘Every kingdom divided against itself is heading for ruin, and a household divided against itself collapses. So too with Satan: if he is divided against himself, how can his kingdom stand? – Since you assert that it is through Beelzebul that I cast out devils. Now if it is through Beelzebul that I cast out devils, through whom do your own experts cast them out? Let them be your judges then. But if it is through the finger of God that I cast out devils, then know that the kingdom of God has overtaken you. So long as a strong man fully armed guards his own palace, his goods are undisturbed; but when someone stronger than he is attacks and defeats him, the stronger man takes away all the weapons he relied on and shares out his spoil.
‘He who is not with me is against me; and he who does not gather with me scatters.
‘When an unclean spirit goes out of a man it wanders through waterless country looking for a place to rest, and not finding one it says, “I will go back to the home I came from.” But on arrival, finding it swept and tidied, it then goes off and brings seven other spirits more wicked than itself, and they go in and set up house there, so that the man ends up by being worse than he was before.’