Does God our Father care? If the answer is other than a resounding YES! Then we are not living virtuous lives in His presence. We are not seeking His word and will for us daily. We have instead distant ourselves from Him by perhaps living life by our own strength and wisdom. Seeking cheap comforts through sinful pleasures.
For if we were living in His presence then our hearts will be aflamed with the fire of His love. For our Lord truly fills the earth with His love. It is our deep personal, intimate relationship with treasure most above all others. For only through it can we love our family as we should. And the power of His love and grace flows out through us for our brethren and all God our Father’s children.
Set my heart ablaze Jesus for You and my brethren. Amen
Saint Antony Mary Claret, pray
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First reading
Ephesians 3:14-21
A prayer that faithful may know the love of Christ
This is what I pray, kneeling before the Father, from whom every family, whether spiritual or natural, takes its name:
Out of his infinite glory, may he give you the power through his Spirit for your hidden self to grow strong, so that Christ may live in your hearts through faith, and then, planted in love and built on love, you will with all the saints have strength to grasp the breadth and the length, the height and the depth; until, knowing the love of Christ, which is beyond all knowledge, you are filled with the utter fullness of God.
Glory be to him whose power, working in us, can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine; glory be to him from generation to generation in the Church and in Christ Jesus for ever and ever. Amen.
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Gospel
Luke 12:49-53
How I wish it were blazing already!
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already! There is a baptism I must still receive, and how great is my distress till it is over!
‘Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division. For from now on a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three; the father divided against the son, son against father, mother against daughter, daughter against mother, mother-in-law against daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law against mother-in-law.’
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