Think about it, does it make any sense to question the Lord our God? Even in our greatest sorrows and pain can we blame it on Him? Can we say then, that we really know Him? That we have an intimate relationship with Him?
If we truly have a deep personal relationship with Him then we know that He is all powerful, all loving, all merciful, all patient and kind. Our hearts are truly restless till we rest in Him. His peace reigns in our hearts. And He empowers us whom He loves to lead others into the same relationship we have with Him. ‘Anyone who listens to you listens to me. ‘
Lead me, O Lord, in the path of life eternal. Amen
Saint Francis of Assisi pray for us…
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First reading
Job 38:1,12-21,40:3-5 ·
The immeasurable greatness of God
From the heart of the tempest the Lord gave Job his answer. He said:
Have you ever in your life given orders to the morning or sent the dawn to its post, telling it to grasp the earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it, when it changes the earth to sealing clay and dyes it as a man dyes clothes;
stealing the light from wicked men and breaking the arm raised to strike?
Have you journeyed all the way to the sources of the sea, or walked where the Abyss is deepest?
Have you been shown the gates of Death or met the janitors of Shadowland?
Have you an inkling of the extent of the earth?
Tell me all about it if you have!
Which is the way to the home of the light, and where does darkness live?
You could then show them the way to their proper places, or put them on the path to where they live!
If you know all this, you must have been born with them, you must be very old by now!
Job replied to the Lord:
My words have been frivolous: what can I reply? I had better lay my finger on my lips.
I have spoken once… I will not speak again; more than once… I will add nothing.
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Gospel
Luke 10:13-16
Anyone who rejects me rejects the one who sent me
Jesus said to his disciples:
‘Alas for you, Chorazin! Alas for you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes. And still, it will not go as hard with Tyre and Sidon at the Judgement as with you. And as for you, Capernaum, did you want to be exalted high as heaven? You shall be thrown down to hell.
‘Anyone who listens to you listens to me; anyone who rejects you rejects me, and those who reject me reject the one who sent me.’
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