Saturday 4th week of Lent

 

Act of Contrition

My God, I am sorry for my sins with all my heart. In choosing to do wrong and failing to do what is good, I have sinned against You whom I should love above all things, I firmly intend, with Your help, to do penance, to sin no more, and to avoid whatever leads me to sin.

God Bless

Thursday 4th Week of Lent

 

Stiff necked people Ex. 32:7-14

An ox that was hard to control was stiff necked.

It would not turn or go in the direction needed to plow the land.

Israel was a stiff necked people.

It would not go in the direction the Lord wanted.

Instead it wanted to follow a molten calf!

How ironic!

The stiff necked people of Israel wanted to follow a stiff necked golden ox!

How willing are we to follow the Lord.

Or are we too stiff neck necked and refuse to go where the Good Lord leads us?

Wednesday 4th Week of Lent

God goes to work Jn. 5:17

What does God do all day?

Does he just sit on a cloud watching us?

The Gospel of John tells us that He is at work.

And what is His work?

God the Father's work is never done.

He is always creating.

Creating new life from the smallest creature to the infant in the womb.

Creating new planets, stars and galaxies.

Creating plants and flowers and trees;

It is a lot of work to keep the earth going let alone the universe!

God the Father is actually very busy at work.

Who like a Father goes to work,

To give the best to His children.

Tuesday 4th week of Lent

 

Water flowing from the Temple Ez. 47:1-12

Imagine turning on the faucet and no water comes out.

What would you do?

Where would you get your water?

For so many people there is no water in their soul.

For those people,

Jesus offers them life giving water;

A flood of grace that flows from the Temple of the Lord,

From the Tabernacle of the Church.

All they have to do is come to Water.

And drink freely and without cost;

And be quenched of all their desires.

Monday 4th Week of Lent

 

No more weeping Is. 65:19

Isaiah prophesied that one day there will be a New Heavens and a new Earth.

On that day the sound of weeping will no longer be heard.

Sorrow and suffering will end.

Because God will create a new heavens and a new earth.

The Past will not even be a memory

There will only be rejoicing.

So do not set your heart on the things of this world with it things that are passing away,

But on the new Heavens and the new earth

That is on the way from the Lord.

4th Sorrowful Mystery :

Jesus carries His cross to Calvary

It was not enough to come to earth

It was not enough to be Baptized

It was not enough to preach

It was not enough to feed

It was not enough to heal

It was not enough to raise the dead.

Jesus had to die on the cross.

That is why He came.

So He picked up His cross and carried it

all the way to Calvary.

Down He went;

Not once,

Not twice,

But three times.

Why did He keep getting up?

Where did He find the strength to keep going?

Love!

Because No cross is too heavy for Love.

Sin weighed Him down

But Love raised Him up.

Nothing, absolutely nothing was going to keep Jesus from dying on the cross for us.

So much did He love us.

What crosses are you carrying right now?

We all have them.

Work, family, illness whatever.

Are they carried out of Love?

If not then they will eventually crush you.

They will weigh you down until one day you can’t get up.

But if they are carried out of love

It does not matter how many times you fall,

Love will raise you up.

Like Simon of Cyrene, Love will come and help you carry it.

Life throws crosses on our back at all different times,

when we least expect them,

And when it is not fair.

But if we have love,

Our knees may be bloodied,

But our hearts will be unbroken.

4th Friday of Lent

 

Where are you from?

One of the first things we often ask someone when we first meet them is,

“Where are you from?”

Because this tells us a lot about the person.

Where was Jesus from?

People thought they knew.

They thought He was from Nazareth;

The son of a carpenter.

And so they could ignore His claims to be the Messiah.

Jesus however tries to tell them where He is REALLY from.

He is from God.

And since He is from God,

He knows God.

But since the people themselves were not from God,

And therefore did not know God,

They rejected Him.

Only those who know God

Will know Jesus

And will Know that Jesus comes from God.

But to know someone,

You have to spend time with them!