Saturday 25th Week of Ordinary Time

Prayer to Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament

Virgin Immaculate, perfect lover of Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament, we ask thee to obtain for us the graces we need to become true adorers of our Eucharistic God. Grant us, we beg of thee, to know Him better, to love Him more, and to center our lives around the Eucharist, that is, to make our whole life a constant prayer of adoration, thanksgiving, reparation, and petition to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Amen.

  Pray for us, O Virgin Immaculate, Our Lady of the Most Blessed Sacrament. That the Eucharistic Kingdom of Jesus Christ may come among us! (St. Peter Julian Eymard)  

 

Reflections of St. Padre Pio

"A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament."

Friday 25th Week Of Ordinary Time

 Friday Feast of Padre Pio

Padre Pio once said

“Whoever does not meditate,

is like someone who never looks in the mirror before going out,

and may go out dirty and disheveled without knowing it.

While The person who meditates

Looks into the mirror of his soul,

And seeks to know his faults,

And correct them and clean up their own soul.

The next time we look in the mirror,

May it be a time To look into our own souls

To see if our soul is clean;

Before we go out to face the world.

Thursday 25th Week of Ordinary Time

 

All rivers go to the sea Ecclesiastes 1:7

Ecclesiastes tells us that all rivers go to the sea.

Each one of us is a river.

Our life flows on like a river.

Some great and long like the Mississippi

And others small and short lie a creek.

But they all flow to the sea which is God.

All that we do and say in our life,

Should be directed to God.

For our life is like a river that does not end in ourself;

But flows to the sea of Eternity.

Wednesday feast of St. Matthew

 

St. Matthew

One must not underestimate how sinful and evil of a person Matthew was.

He took advantage of the poor.

He broke all of the laws of religion and the synagogue.

Whenever Matthew had a dinner party he did not invite the poor and hungry to dinner, or the religious.

Rather all of the guests were other tax collectors and sinners.

No wonder the Pharisees were upset. Mt. 9:11

They did not want to condone such behavior and encourage such associations.

So what did Jesus do when He walked past Matthew's tax collectors desk?

Did He condemn him.

Jesus showed him Mercy! Mt. 9:13

Mercy is a gift given only to sinners.

Mercy is a gift given only to the immoral.

Mercy is a gift given only to those who seek to destroy the Faith.

The holy and moral do not need Mercy. Mt. 9:12

Jesus offers Mercy to sinners and tax collectors;

Do we offer the same mercy?

Tuesday 25th Week of Ordinary Time

Right and Just. Prov. 21:3

The Jews were always making sacrifices of turtle doves or lambs to God,

And the book of Proverbs tried to tell them that what was pleasing to God

was to do what is right and just.

What good is it, if we go to Mass

And then when we leave Church

We fail to do what is right and just?

Then what we do in church is not pleasing to God either.

Monday 25th week of Ordinary Time

 Proverbs 3:27-8

“Refuse no one the good on which he has a claim

when it is in your power to do it for him.

Say not to your neighbor, “Go, and come again,

tomorrow I will give,” when you can give at once.

Plot no evil against your neighbor,

against one who lives at peace with you.

Quarrel not with a man without cause,

with one who has done you no harm.”

These words from the Book of Proverbs, need to be taken to heart and put into practice in a world where there is too much quarreling!

25th Sunday of Ordinary Time

 

Stewards Lk. 16:1-13

If you were rich and worked hard all your life, would you want to see all your hard work and money squandered by some banker or lawyer or employee.

Well neither does God.

God is rich; beyond rich.

Everything you see God made.

The mountains, the oceans, the plains.

The stars and the planets.

Ever since Adam and Eve,

God has made us stewards of His creation.

And one day, just like the rich man in the Gospel;

God is going to ask us to give an accounting of what we have done with all that He gave us.

It doesn’t matter how much God gave us,

What matters is what we have done with what God gave us.

Whether great of small.

Today is a good day to take an inventory all that we have.

Sit down with a piece of paper

And write down all the blessings;

All the riches;

All the things;

All the people in your life

And then ask yourself.

How have I taken care of these things?

How have I used them?

Because God is going to ask an accounting of all that He gave us.

And if we have not squandered it;

He will bless us with even more in Eternity.

Because He can trust us.

But if we have not!

If we misused the gifts He gave us;

Mistreated the people He put in our lives.

If we pocketed His Riches.

What do you think God will do?

What would you do if you were in God’s shoes,

And someone had misused, mistreated or pocketed what you had given to someone to take care of?