Death comes for all of us it is just a matter of time. Most of us will not know when. Question is how loving, faithful and obedient to the Lord our God will we be found when our turn comes?
Are we confident that we shall proclaim, ”Death where is your sting?” Our Lord has told us, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live, even though they die”
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have eternal life.
This is our Christian faith that we share with all our Christian sisters and brothers across all denominations. Shall we fight and bicker over Theology? Or interpretations? Let us stand as One to serve, build and advance the kingdom of God. Amen
Saint Rita of Cascia pray for us…
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First reading
James 4:13-17
You cannot know what will happen tomorrow
Here is the answer for those of you who talk like this: ‘Today or tomorrow, we are off to this or that town; we are going to spend a year there, trading, and make some money.’
You never know what will happen tomorrow: you are no more than a mist that is here for a little while and then disappears. The most you should ever say is: ‘If it is the Lord’s will, we shall still be alive to do this or that.’ But how proud and sure of yourselves you are now! Pride of this kind is always wicked. Everyone who knows what is the right thing to do and doesn’t do it commits a sin.
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Gospel
Mark 9:38-40
You must not stop anyone from working miracles in my name
John said to Jesus, ‘Master, we saw a man who is not one of us casting out devils in your name; and because he was not one of us we tried to stop him.’ But Jesus said, ‘You must not stop him: no one who works a miracle in my name is likely to speak evil of me. Anyone who is not against us is for us.’
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