Monday 10 November 2025
When we seek the Lord with a humble heart and simplicity, we will surely find Him. Let every word that comes from our mouth bring life, healing, and love. We are called to always forgive, just as we are forgiven. If a brother or sister wrongs us seven times, we must forgive them seven times.
God reminds us that we can perform miracles, signs, and wonders through Him, if we have faith even as small as a mustard seed. We often forget the saying that we could tell a mulberry tree, ‘Be uprooted and be planted in the sea.’ It’s easy to overlook that trees planted in the sea will not survive. However, God is reminding us that with Him, everything is possible. Even a mulberry tree planted in the sea can thrive and live, just as we hope to live with Him forever.
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Pray for us…
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First reading
Wisdom 1:1-7 ·
Seek the Lord in simplicity of heart
Love virtue, you who are judges on earth, let honesty prompt your thinking about the Lord, seek him in simplicity of heart; since he is to be found by those who do not put him to the test, he shows himself to those who do not distrust him.
But selfish intentions divorce from God; and Omnipotence, put to the test, confounds the foolish.
No, Wisdom will never make its way into a crafty soul nor stay in a body that is in debt to sin; the holy spirit of instruction shuns deceit,
it stands aloof from reckless purposes, is taken aback when iniquity appears.
Wisdom is a spirit, a friend to man, though she will not pardon the words of a blasphemer, since God sees into the innermost parts of him, truly observes his heart,
and listens to his tongue.
The spirit of the Lord, indeed, fills the whole world, and that which holds all things together knows every word that is said.
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Gospel
Luke 17:1-6
If your brother does wrong, reprove him
Jesus said to his disciples: ‘Obstacles are sure to come, but alas for the one who provides them! It would be better for him to be thrown into the Sea with a millstone put round his neck than that he should lead astray a single one of these little ones. Watch yourselves!
If your brother does something wrong, reprove him and, if he is sorry, forgive him. And if he wrongs you seven times a day and seven times comes back to you and says, “I am sorry,” you must forgive him.’
The apostles said to the Lord, ‘Increase our faith.’ The Lord replied, ‘Were your faith the size of a mustard seed you could say to this mulberry tree, “Be uprooted and planted in the sea,” and it would obey you.’
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