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On Today’s Gospel

Posted: August 1, 2024 by CatholicJules in Personal Thoughts & Reflections
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God our Father fashioned us in His likeness and image and each every one of us are a unique Masterpiece in His eyes, truly loved by Him.

If we should get distorted or spoilt by sin and our sinful ways, we are not discarded or abandoned. Through our repentance, we are moulded back into shape by our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. We must be mindful that this only lasts when we are still alive and are able to repent of our sins. What if tomorrow never comes for us? Are we ready to meet our Lord?

To be ready let us fill our days with His Word both the old and the new! For Heaven and earth will pass away, but His words will never pass away. Matt 24:35

Your Word and Will be done in my life Lord. Amen

Saint Alphonsus Mary de’ Liguori, pray for us…

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First reading
Jeremiah 18:1-6


When the clay goes wrong, the potter starts afresh

The word that was addressed to Jeremiah by the Lord, ‘Get up and make your way down to the potter’s house; there I shall let you hear what I have to say.’ So I went down to the potter’s house; and there he was, working at the wheel. And whenever the vessel he was making came out wrong, as happens with the clay handled by potters, he would start afresh and work it into another vessel, as potters do. Then this word of the Lord was addressed to me, ‘House of Israel, can not I do to you what this potter does? – it is the Lord who speaks. Yes, as the clay is in the potter’s hand, so you are in mine, House of Israel.’


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Gospel
Matthew 13:47-53


The fishermen collect the good fish and throw away those that are no use

Jesus said to the crowds: ‘The kingdom of heaven is like a dragnet cast into the sea that brings in a haul of all kinds. When it is full, the fishermen haul it ashore; then, sitting down, they collect the good ones in a basket and throw away those that are no use. This is how it will be at the end of time: the angels will appear and separate the wicked from the just to throw them into the blazing furnace where there will be weeping and grinding of teeth.
    ‘Have you understood all this?’ They said, ‘Yes.’ And he said to them, ‘Well then, every scribe who becomes a disciple of the kingdom of heaven is like a householder who brings out from his storeroom things both new and old.’
    When Jesus had finished these parables he left the district.

Father’s Love

Posted: December 18, 2022 by CatholicJules in Life's Journeys, Memory Book, Personal Thoughts & Reflections
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As the year draws to a close, I am especially thankful this year to have drawn closer to my Father’s heart more than I have ever been. To learn or rather re-learn about His heart for me and for others.

There are three such learnings and all three, are more deeply embraced when a decision is made to live and apply them daily.

First is speaking words of my Father into the hearts of all that I meet. It has the power to transform, comfort and heal. It carries the grace of our loving Father and is life giving. Hence just as my words have the power to uplift, so too it can tear down. Hence if my desire is to reflect the heart of my Father then I must be always careful with what I say and how I say it. If I cannot be life giving then I should be silent till I can.

Second is loving others with the heart of my Heavenly Father. I must see everyone beliver and unbeliever alike with the heart and mind of my Father for them. His children whom He loves and adores. While it is far easier to love those who love and respect us. It is far greater to love those most difficult to love. For if we love them with our Father’s heart then we become fully aligned with Him. We enter into full communion with Him, by taking up our cross and following after His Son our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ who loves us after the heart of His Father.

Third and finally is that I must carry the joy of my Lord wherever I go. For I carry His very presence with me. I can speak His peace, love and joy into any situation, place or atmosphere. How then can the joy of His presence not be reflected on my face, in all that I say and do? I want to bring His joy with me always. Amen

In all my endeavors I shall seek progress not perfection. For I know I can only be perfected through Christ my Lord. ❤️

On Today’s Gospel

Posted: April 21, 2021 by CatholicJules in Personal Thoughts & Reflections
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Unless a grain of wheat falls on the ground and dies it remains a single seed. But if it dies in produces many seeds.

If we say we have died to ourselves and have taken up our cross to follow Jesus then where are the many seeds we have produced? How many have we led to RCIA? How many have we touched and ministered to? How many have we led out of bondage and have set free through Christ our Lord? How many no longer hunger and thirst for they have experienced the living bread, the Bread of Life?

It is not about being thick skinned enough but rather how filled are You with the love of God our Heavenly Father? Have you not partaken of the Bread of Life yourself? Are you not nourished daily through His living Word? For if you were truly living as a child of God so loved by Your Heavenly Father and are a disciple of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; then you will not allow criticism, persecution or anything for that matter, get in the way of sharing His truth, way and life!

It is my Father’s will, says the Lord, that whoever believes in the Son shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him up on the last day. Amen

Alleluia!

First reading

Acts 8:1-8

They went from place to place, preaching the Good News

That day a bitter persecution started against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except the apostles fled to the country districts of Judaea and Samaria.

    There were some devout people, however, who buried Stephen and made great mourning for him.

    Saul then worked for the total destruction of the Church; he went from house to house arresting both men and women and sending them to prison.

    Those who had escaped went from place to place preaching the Good News. One of them was Philip who went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to them. The people united in welcoming the message Philip preached, either because they had heard of the miracles he worked or because they saw them for themselves. There were, for example, unclean spirits that came shrieking out of many who were possessed, and several paralytics and cripples were cured. As a result there was great rejoicing in that town.

 

Gospel

John 6:35-40

It is my Father’s will that whoever sees the Son should have eternal life

Jesus said to the crowd:

‘I am the bread of life.

He who comes to me will never be hungry;

he who believes in me will never thirst.

But, as I have told you,

you can see me and still you do not believe.

All that the Father gives me will come to me,

and whoever comes to me I shall not turn him away;

because I have come from heaven, not to do my own will,

but to do the will of the one who sent me.

Now the will of him who sent me

is that I should lose nothing of all that he has given to me,

and that I should raise it up on the last day.

Yes, it is my Father’s will

that whoever sees the Son and believes in him shall have eternal life, and that I shall raise him up on the last day.’