Our lives are fleeting no matter for hard we try to hold on. In our aging bodies our souls are often young, alive, yet mournful for we may not have the energy we had in our youth. What about our spirit? Is it fully alive and are our minds renewed in Christ?
Are we living in the promise of new life in Christ knowing that even if we should pass on from this life will be with Him? Do we then walk with joy in our hearts as we walk in His presence? If so then everyone should be eager, even anxious to know Jesus as we do intimately.
I am Yours Lord, as You are my one and only. Amen
Saints Cosmas and Damian, pray for us..
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First reading
Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 ·
Nothing is new and all is vanity
Vanity of vanities, the Preacher says. Vanity of vanities. All is vanity! For all his toil, his toil under the sun, what does man gain by it?
A generation goes, a generation comes, yet the earth stands firm for ever. The sun rises, the sun sets; then to its place it speeds and there it rises. Southward goes the wind, then turns to the north; it turns and turns again; back then to its circling goes the wind. Into the sea all the rivers go, and yet the sea is never filled, and still to their goal the rivers go. All things are wearisome. No man can say that eyes have not had enough of seeing, ears their fill of hearing. What was will be again; what has been done will be done again; and there is nothing new under the sun. Take anything of which it may be said, ‘Look now, this is new.’ Already, long before our time, it existed. Only no memory remains of earlier times, just as in times to come next year itself will not be remembered.
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Gospel
Luke 9:7-9
‘John? I beheaded him; so who is this?’
Herod the tetrarch had heard about all that was being done by Jesus; and he was puzzled, because some people were saying that John had risen from the dead, others that Elijah had reappeared, still others that one of the ancient prophets had come back to life. But Herod said, ‘John? I beheaded him. So who is this I hear such reports about?’ And he was anxious to see Jesus.
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