God intended that from the very beginning that we become one Holy family united in Him. That we should not remain alone but help one another strive for Holiness. And we can call on Him for help unafraid and unashamed. In His time and in His ways He answers all our prayers. He loves us all, each and everyone equally.
Are we then obedient to His call? To His Will for us? Do we hear Him tirelessly calling sinners back to Him? Do we love and honour Him by our Faith in Him? By the way we live our lives? Do we truly worship Him with our very being? Body, mind and soul? Do we give Him thanks and praise?
Loving Father, all creation rightly gives You thanks and praise. We are able to love because You loved us first. Guide us so that we may always give glory to You O Lord. Through your Son Jesus Christ and the Holy Spirit who reigns with You, one God forever and ever. Amen
First reading
Genesis 2:18-25
The Lord God said, ‘It is not good that the man should be alone. I will make him a helpmate.’ So from the soil the Lord God fashioned all the wild beasts and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call them; each one was to bear the name the man would give it. The man gave names to all the cattle, all the birds of heaven and all the wild beasts. But no helpmate suitable for man was found for him. So the Lord God made the man fall into a deep sleep. And while he slept, he took one of his ribs and enclosed it in flesh. The Lord God built the rib he had taken from the man into a woman, and brought her to the man. The man exclaimed:
‘This at last is bone from my bones,
and flesh from my flesh!
This is to be called woman,
for this was taken from man.’
This is why a man leaves his father and mother and joins himself to his wife, and they become one body.
Now both of them were naked, the man and his wife, but they felt no shame in front of each other.
Gospel
Mark 7:24-30
Jesus left Gennesaret and set out for the territory of Tyre. There he went into a house and did not want anyone to know he was there, but he could not pass unrecognised. A woman whose little daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him straightaway and came and fell at his feet. Now the woman was a pagan, by birth a Syrophoenician, and she begged him to cast the devil out of her daughter. And he said to her, ‘The children should be fed first, because it is not fair to take the children’s food and throw it to the house-dogs.’ But she spoke up: ‘Ah yes, sir,’ she replied ‘but the house-dogs under the table can eat the children’s scraps.’ And he said to her, ‘For saying this, you may go home happy: the devil has gone out of your daughter.’ So she went off to her home and found the child lying on the bed and the devil gone.
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