1ST READING
St.
Martha has a great heart for service but there eventually comes a time
when silence and reflection are more important than running around and
serving everybody. Without silence and prayer, we cannot be formed in
the ways of God and will not know how He wants us to serve Him. Both are
needed for a healthy faith relationship with Jesus.
1 John 4:7-16 (or Jeremiah 14:17-22)
7 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. 8 Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. 9 In
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. 11 Beloved, if God so loved us, we also must love one another. 12 No one has ever seen God. Yet, if we love one another, God remains in us, and his love is brought to perfection in us. 13 This is how we know that we remain in him and he in us, that he has given us of his Spirit. 14 Moreover, we have seen and testify that the Father sent his Son as savior of the world. 15 Whoever acknowledges that Jesus is
the Son of God, God remains in him and he in God. 16 We
have come to know and to believe in the love God has for us. God is
love, and whoever remains in love remains in God and God in him.
P S A L M
Psalm 34: 2-3, 4-5, 6-7, 8-9, 10-11 (or Psalm 79:8, 9, 11, 13)
R: I will bless the Lord at all times.
1 [2] I will bless the Lord at all times; his praise shall be ever in my mouth. 2 [3] Let my soul glory in the Lord; the lowly will hear me and be glad. (R) 3 [4] Glorify the Lord with me, let us together extol his name. 4 [5] I sought the Lord, and he answered me and delivered me from all my fears. (R) 5 [6] Look to him that you may be radiant with joy, and your faces may not blush with shame. 6 [7] When the poor one called out, the Lord heard, and from all his distress he saved him. (R) 7 [8] The angel of the Lord encamps around those who fear him, and delivers them. 8 [9] Taste and see how good the Lord is; blessed the man who takes refuge in him. (R) 9 [10] Fear the Lord, you his holy ones, for nought is lacking to those who fear him. 10 [11] The great grow poor and hungry; but those who seek the Lord want for no good thing. (R)
GOSPEL
John 11:19-27 (or Luke 10:38-42 or Matthew 13:36-43)
Martha
is completely aware of who Jesus is as the Son of God and of His power
to raise Lazarus from the dead. She believes in the fullness of the
Gospel message even though Jesus has not yet died and risen from the
dead. Is this possible? Jesus is there at the scene, so that makes
anything possible. The graces of the resurrection were made available
before Jesus was even born, so that makes this scenario possible, too.
I am the light of the world, says the Lord; whoever follows me will have the light of life. 19 Many of the Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother [Lazarus, who had died]. 20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him; but Mary sat at home. 21 Martha said to Jesus, “Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died. 22 But even now I know that whatever you ask of God, God will give you.” 23 Jesus said to her, “Your brother will rise.” 24 Martha said to him, “I know he will rise, in the resurrection on the last day.” 25 Jesus told her, “I am the resurrection and the life; whoever believes in me, even if he dies, will live, 26 and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die. Do you believe this?” 27
She
said to him, “Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the
Christ, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world.”
think: Silence and prayer are needed for a healthy faith relationship with Jesus.
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 Esther C 5-7
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