1ST READING
We
know that God loves us because He sent His Son to die for us. We know a
person loves his country when he is willing to lay down his life for
it. We know a person believes in a cause when he is willing to give all
he has to see it progress. We have known or seen one of the above
examples. Do we live our faith with the same focus of mind, heart and
spirit that these examples express?
1 John 4:7-10
7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. 8Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. 9In
this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only begotten
Son into the world so that we might have life through him. 10 In this is love: not that we have loved God, but that he loved us and sent his Son as expiation for our
sins.
P S A L M
Psalm 72:1-2, 3-4, 7-8
R: Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.
1 O God, with your judgment endow the king, and with your justice, the king’s son; 2 He shall govern your people with justice and your afflicted ones with judgment. (R) 3 The mountains shall yield peace for the people, and the hills justice. 4 He shall defend the afflicted among the people, save the children of the poor. (R) 7 Justice shall flower in his days, and profound peace, till the moon be no more. 8 May he rule from sea to sea, and from the river to the ends of the earth. (R)
GOSPEL
To
understand the image of the heart of a shepherd, it is necessary to
know that the sheep depend totally upon the shepherd to guard them from
danger and to lead them to food and water each day. In other words,
without a shepherd, the sheep will die. This is how Jesus sees the
Jewish people of His time —like sheep slowly dying for want of good
spiritual leadership. We now know what He means when He uses this image.
GOSPEL ACCLAMATION
The Lord has sent me to bring glad tidings to the poor and to proclaim liberty to captives.
Mark 6:34-44
34 When
Jesus saw the vast crowd, his heart was moved with pity for them, for
they were like sheep without a shepherd; and he began to teach them many
things. 35 By now it was already late and his disciples approached him and said, “This is a deserted place and it is already very late. 36Dismiss them so that they can go to the surrounding farms and villages and buy themselves something to eat.” 37He said
to them in reply, “Give them some food yourselves.” But they said to him, “Are we to buy two hundred days’ wages worth of food and give it to them to eat?” 38He asked them, “How many loaves do you have? Go and see.” And when they had found out they said, “Five loaves and two fish.” 39So he gave orders to have them sit down in groups on the green grass. 40 The people took their places in rows
by hundreds and by fifties. 41 Then, taking the five loaves and the two fish and looking up to heaven, he said the blessing, broke the loaves, and gave them to his disciples to set before the people; he also divided the two fish among them all. 42 They all ate and were satisfied. 43And they picked up twelve wicker baskets full of fragments and what was left of the fish. 44
Those who ate of the loaves were five thousand men.
think: We know that God loves us because He sent His Son to die for us.
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 Luke 22-24
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