Whether it is through punishment for our misdeeds or providing, caring and nourishing us. God our Father does it all for love of us.
Through His Son or Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; we have been redeemed and set free. His peace now reigns in our hearts. He has made all things new for us, so that we can live renewed lives to the full in Him!
Let us never turn back to our old way of life. Resisting always any and all habitual sin!
Father Bless and anoint us afresh for identity and destiny. Amen
Saint Maria Goretti, pray for us…
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First reading
Amos 9:11-15 ·
I will restore the fortunes of my people Israel
It is the Lord who speaks:
‘That day I will re-erect the tottering hut of David, make good the gaps in it, restore its ruins
and rebuild it as it was in the days of old, so that they can conquer the remnant of Edom and all the nations that belonged to me.’
It is the Lord who speaks, and he will carry this out.
‘The days are coming now – it is the Lord who speaks – when harvest will follow directly after ploughing, the treading of grapes soon after sowing, when the mountains will run with new wine and the hills all flow with it.
I mean to restore the fortunes of my people Israel; they will rebuild the ruined cities and live in them,
plant vineyards and drink their wine, dig gardens and eat their produce.
I will plant them in their own country, never to be rooted up again out of the land I have given them, says the Lord, your God.’
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Gospel
Matthew 9:14-17
When the bridegroom is taken from them, then they will fast
John’s disciples came to him and said, ‘Why is it that we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not?’ Jesus replied, ‘Surely the bridegroom’s attendants would never think of mourning as long as the bridegroom is still with them? But the time will come for the bridegroom to be taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one puts a piece of unshrunken cloth on to an old cloak, because the patch pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse. Nor do people put new wine into old wineskins; if they do, the skins burst, the wine runs out, and the skins are lost. No; they put new wine into fresh skins and both are preserved.’
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