We are called to Holiness and that is what it means to be a Saint. It does not mean we are sinless for not one of us can say we are without sin. However we strive daily to be connected to the vine our Lord and saviour Jesus Christ. To be faithful to the Gospels and muster all our strength to turn away from sin.
If we wander into the lair of the evil one and are consequently bit as a result. We do not have to curl up, lie down and wait for the poison of sin to spread and kill us! We can turn to our Lord Jesus with our contrite heart and whose mercy and love will save us. So that we can once again be free to strive for Holiness.
Let us always to turn our Heavenly Father in prayer. So that we may always know His Will for us as we sit in His loving embrace. Amen
Saint Simon and St Jude pray for us….
(Feast – St Simon & St Jude)
First reading
Ephesians 2:19-22
You are no longer aliens or foreign visitors: you are citizens like all the saints, and part of God’s household. You are part of a building that has the apostles and prophets for its foundations, and Christ Jesus himself for its main cornerstone. As every structure is aligned on him, all grow into one holy temple in the Lord; and you too, in him, are being built into a house where God lives, in the Spirit.
Gospel
Luke 6:12-16
Jesus went out into the hills to pray; and he spent the whole night in prayer to God. When day came he summoned his disciples and picked out twelve of them; he called them ‘apostles’: Simon whom he called Peter, and his brother Andrew; James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James son of Alphaeus, Simon called the Zealot, Judas son of James, and Judas Iscariot who became a traitor.
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