1ST READING
Number,
size, strength and so on are all irrelevant when it comes to obedience
to the Lord’s call. If God has called us to do anything, we can be sure
that everything we need to do it will be available and He will make up
for anything that is lacking, so long as we trust Him and do the best we
can with what we have. This is the basis of true obedience.
2 Samuel 24:2, 9-17
2 King
David said to Joab and the leaders of the army who were with him, “Tour
all the tribes in Israel from Dan to Beer-sheba and register the
people, that I may know their number.” 9 Joab then reported to the king the number of people registered in Israel, eight hundred thousand men fit for military service; in Judah, five hundred thousand. 10 Afterward, however, David regretted having numbered
the people, and said to the Lord: “I have sinned grievously in what I
have done. But now, Lord, forgive the guilt of your servant, for I have
been very foolish.” 11 When David rose in the morning, the Lord had spoken to the prophet Gad, David’s seer, saying: 12 “Go
and say to David, ‘This is what the Lord says: I offer you three
alternatives; choose one of them, and I will inflict it on you.’” 13 Gad
then went to David to inform him. He sked: “Do you want a three years’
famine
to come upon your land, or to flee from your enemy three months while he
pursues you, or to have a three days’ pestilence in your land? Now
consider and decide what I must reply to him who sent me.” 14 David answered Gad: “I am in very serious difficulty. Let us fall by the hand of God, for he is most merciful; but let me not fall by the hand of man.” 15 Thus David chose the pestilence. Now it was the time of the wheat harvest when the plague broke out among the people. The Lord then sent a pestilence over Israel from morning until the time appointed, and seventy thousand of the people from Dan to Beer-sheba died. 16 But
when the angel stretched forth his hand toward Jerusalem to destroy it,
the Lord regretted the calamity and said to the angel causing the
destruction among the people, “Enough now! Stay your hand.” The angel of
the Lord was then standing at the threshing floor of Araunah the
Jebusite. 17 When
David saw the angel who was striking the people, he said to the Lord:
“It is I who have sinned; it is I, the shepherd, who have
done wrong. But these are sheep; what have they done? Punish me and my
kindred.”
P S A L M
Psalm 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7
R: Lord, forgive the wrong I have done.
1 Blessed is he whose fault is taken away, whose sin is covered. 2 Blessed the man to whom the Lord imputes not guilt, in whose spirit there is no guile. (R) 5 Then I acknowledged my sin to you, my guilt I covered not. I said, “I confess my faults to the Lord,” and you took away the guilt of my sin. (R) 6
For this shall every faithful man pray to you in time of stress. Though deep waters overflow, they shall not reach him. (R) 7 You are my shelter; from distress you will preserve me; with glad cries of freedom you will ring me round. (R)
GOSPEL
Ultimately,
faith is necessary for sustained manifestations of the presence of God
in our lives. There are times when God will simply intervene in the life
of a person with weak or no faith at all but these are relatively rare,
and certainly the abundance of miracles that seem to surround the lives
of the saints would have been impossible without their faith. If you
want to see miracles in your life, pray for a deeper and stronger faith.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me.
Mark 6:1-6
1 Jesus departed from there and came to his native place, accompanied by his disciples. 2When
the sabbath came he began to teach in the synagogue, and many who heard
him were astonished. They said, “Where did this man get all this? What
kind of wisdom has been given him? What mighty deeds are wrought by his
hands! 3 Is
he not the carpenter, the son of Mary, and the brother of James and
Joses and Judas and Simon? And are not his sisters here with
us?” And they took offense at him. 4 Jesus said to them, “A prophet is not without honor except in his native place and among his own kin and in his own house.” 5 So he was not able to perform any mighty deed there, apart from curing a few sick people by laying his hands on them. 6 He was amazed at their lack of faith.
think: If you want to see miracles in your life, pray for a deeper and stronger faith.
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READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Romans 5-8
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