Archive for 'Eucharist'

Always Prepared to Serve

Luke 12: 39-48 Rom 6:12-18 / Psa 124 …from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked. (Luke 12:48) What do we have to sacrifice For all the favors we receive? When trials come, don’t be surprised, Trust in God’s mercy and believe. (Jesus said), “But understand this: If the [...]

The War of Good Against Evil

Luke 4: 31-37 1Thes 5: 1-6,9-11 / Psa 27 What words these are! With authority and power He gives orders to impure spirits and they come out! (Luke 4:36) Don’t fear to face iniquity, No evil spirits can withstand, When we speak with authority The Name ‘Jesus’ at our command. Jesus went down to Capernaum, [...]

Hunger for the Bread of Life

John 6: 52- 59 Acts 9:1-20 / Ps 117 Amen, amen, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life within you. (John 6:53) Nothing nourishes more than Jesus, And as precious as His Word we’re fed. In Scriptures we receive [...]

The Bread of Eternal Life

John 6: 30-35 Acts 7:51-8:1a / Ps 31 I am the bread of life. Whoever comes to me will never go hungry, and whoever believes in me will never be thirsty. (John 6:35) What good are these bodies well fed If our souls are undernourished? It is Jesus the living Bread Who feeds us in [...]

Gathered As One

John 6:1-15 Acts 5:34-42 / Ps 27 Gather the fragments left over, so that nothing will be wasted. ( John 6:12) The miracle of the loaves was when Thousands on a mountainside were fed. Today miracles still happen When we receive God’s Living Bread. Some time after this, Jesus crossed to the far shore of [...]

Honoring God on the Sabbath

Matthew 12: 1-8 Is 38: 1-6, 21-22, 7-8 / Is 38: 10-12, 16 For the Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath. (Matthew 12: 8) God asks but little of our time For us to honor Him at Mass; So let us leave all cares behind To worship ere this week will pass At [...]