There can be no compromise in our worship of our Heavenly Father. No trading on empty promises, no concessions to be made for leading sinful lives without repentance. Nor can we ever disregard reverence for our Heavenly Father, whether in dress, body and mind. Let us always prepare ourselves so that when we receive His Word. We will receive Him with joy into our very beings and be transformed each and every time.
Thank You Lord for sharing Your body, blood, soul and divinity with us, may we always stand ready and worthy to receive You each and everyday. Amen
First reading
Apocalypse 10:8-11
I, John, heard the voice I had heard from heaven speaking to me again. ‘Go,’ it said ‘and take that open scroll out of the hand of the angel standing on sea and land.’ I went to the angel and asked him to give me the small scroll, and he said, ‘Take it and eat it; it will turn your stomach sour, but in your mouth it will taste as sweet as honey.’ So I took it out of the angel’s hand, and swallowed it; it was as sweet as honey in my mouth, but when I had eaten it my stomach turned sour. Then I was told, ‘You are to prophesy again, this time about many different nations and countries and languages and emperors.’
Gospel
Luke 19:45-48
Jesus went into the Temple and began driving out those who were selling. ‘According to scripture,’ he said ‘my house will be a house of prayer. But you have turned it into a robbers’ den.’
He taught in the Temple every day. The chief priests and the scribes, with the support of the leading citizens, tried to do away with him, but they did not see how they could carry this out because the people as a whole hung on his words.
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