1ST READING
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people in exile always looks for signs of hope. Here, Isaiah prophesies
of a time when Jerusalem will be the City of God , full of splendor and
life. This vision gives hope to those who are far from their homeland,
that there will be a time when they are able to return home and restart
the life they once had. Prophecies of hope always promise a life that is
better than the one before. God never holds back and always seeks to
outdo Himself in His love for us.
Isaiah 65:17-21
17 Thus
says the Lord: Lo, I am about to create new heavens and a new earth;
the things of the past shall not be remembered or come to mind. 18 Instead,
there shall always be rejoicing and happiness in what I create; for I
create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight; 19 I
will rejoice in Jerusalem and exult in my people. No longer shall the
sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying; 20 no
longer shall there be in it an infant who lives but a few days, or an
old man who does not round out his full lifetime; he dies a mere youth
who reaches but a hundred years, and he who fails of a hundred shall be
thought accursed. 21 They shall live in the houses they build, and eat the fruit of the vineyards they plant.
P S A L M
Psalm 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11-12, 13
R: I will praise you, Lord, for you have rescued me.
1 [2] I will extol you, O Lord, for you drew me clear and did not let my enemies rejoice over me. 3 [4] O Lord, you brought me up from the nether world; you preserved me from among those going down into the pit. (R) 4 [5] Sing praise to the Lord, you his faithful ones, and give thanks to his holy name. 5 [6] For his anger lasts but a moment; a lifetime, his good will. At
nightfall, weeping enters in, but with the dawn, rejoicing. (R) 10 [11] “Hear, O Lord, and have pity on me; O Lord, be my helper.” 11 [12] You changed my mourning into dancing; 12 [13] O Lord, my God, forever will I give you thanks. (R)
GOSPEL
Jesus
brings life from death and restores life to those who have died. This
prepares us for His own resurrection when the Father raises Him from the
dead. If death is under God’s control, then so is everything else.
Mortal man fears death. He has no control over it. Death ends everything
from a physical point of view. It is God alone who has power over
death.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Seek good and not evil so that you may live, and the Lord will be with you.
John 4:43-54
43 At that time Jesus left (Samaria) for Galilee. 44 For Jesus himself testified that a prophet has no honor in his native place. 45 When
he came into Galilee, the Galileans welcomed him, since they had seen
all he had done in Jerusalem at the feast; for they themselves had gone
to the feast. 46 Then he returned to Cana in Galilee, where he had made the water wine. Now there was a royal official whose son was ill in Capernaum. 47 When
he heard that Jesus had arrived in Galilee from Judea, he went to him
and asked him to come down and heal his son, who was near death. 48 Jesus said to him, “Unless you people see signs and wonders, you will not believe.” 49 The royal official said to him, “Sir, come down before my child dies.” 50 Jesus said to him, “You may go; your son will live.” The man believed what Jesus said to him and left. 51 While the man was on his way back, his slaves met him and told him that his boy would live. 52 He asked them when he began to recover. They told him, “The fever left him yesterday, about one in the afternoon.” 53 The
father realized that just at that time Jesus had said to him, “Your son
will live,” and he and his whole household came to believe. 54 Now this was the second sign Jesus did when he came to Galilee from Judea.
think: God never holds back and always seeks to outdo Himself in His love for us.
T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST
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