1ST READING
If
we were to obey no other adage than to love one another, we would live
right and become saints. Is it really that easy? Well, learning to love
one another in all things is actually not that easy. It will take us a
lifetime to learn how to do this and there will be a multitude of
failures along the way.
2 John 4-9
4 [Chosen Lady:] I rejoiced greatly to find some of your children walking in the truth just as we were commanded by the Father. 5 But
now, Lady, I ask you, not as though I were writing a new commandment
but the one we have had from the beginning: let us love one another. 6 For
this is love, that we walk according to his commandments; this is the
commandment, as you heard from the beginning, in which you should walk.
7 Many
deceivers have gone out into the world, those who do not acknowledge
Jesus Christ as coming in the flesh; such is the deceitful one and the
antichrist. 8 Look to yourselves that you do not lose what we worked for but may receive a full recompense. 9 Anyone
who is so “progressive” as not to remain in the teaching of the Christ
does not have God; whoever remains in the teaching has the Father and
the Son.
P S A L M
Psalm 119:1, 2, 10, 11, 17, 18
R: Blessed are they who follow the law of the Lord!
1 Blessed are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the law of the Lord. (R) 2 Blessed are they who observe his decrees, who seek him with all their heart. (R) 10 With all my heart I seek you; let me not stray from your commands. (R) 11
Within my heart I treasure your promise, that I may not sin against you. (R) 17 Be good to your servant, that I may live and keep your words. (R) 18 Open my eyes, that I may consider the wonders of your law. (R)
GOSPEL
Lot’s
wife looks back on the destruction of Sodom and is immediately turned
into a pillar of salt. This teaches us that our actions have
consequences – and the consequence of looking back on Sodom, and Lot’s
wife was aware of this, was turning into a pillar of salt. Let us
realize that we should consider the consequences of our actions before
we act if we want to avoid a lot of suffering.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
Stand erect and raise your heads because your redemption is at hand.
Luke 17:26-37
26 Jesus said to his disciples: “As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be in the days of the Son of Man; 27 they
were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage up to the day
that Noah entered the ark, and the flood came and destroyed them all. 28 Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot: they were eating, drinking, buying, selling, planting, building; 29
on the day when Lot left Sodom, fire and brimstone rained from the sky to destroy them all. 30 So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed. 31 On
that day, a person who is on the housetop and whose belongings are in
the house must not go down to get them, and likewise a person in the
field must not return to what was left behind. 32 Remember the wife of Lot. 33 Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it, but whoever loses it will save it. 34 I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed; one will be taken, the other left. 35 And there will be two women grinding meal together; one will be taken, the other left.” 36 37 They said to him in reply, “Where, Lord?” He said to them, “Where the body is, there also the vultures will gather.”
BLESSING
LIST LIST
think: We should consider the consequences of our actions before we act if we want to avoid a lot of suffering.
T O D A Y’S BLESSING LIST
Thank You Lord for: ___________________________
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God’s special verse/thought for me today_________
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READ THE BIBLE IN ONE YEAR Jeremiah 31-34
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