MY HOPE IS IN GOD
Prayer before Mass: Almighty and ever-living God, I approach the sacrament of Your only-begotten Son, Our Lord Jesus Christ. I come sick to the doctor of life, unclean to the fountain of mercy, blind to the radiance of eternal light, and poor and needy to the Lord of heaven and earth. Lord, in Your great generosity, heal my sickness, wash away my defilement, enlighten my blindness, enrich my poverty, and clothe my nakedness. May I receive the Bread of Angels, the King of kings and Lord of lords, with humble reverence, with the purity and faith, the repentance and love, and the determined purpose that will help to bring me to salvation.
May I receive the sacrament of the Lord’s Body and Blood, and its reality and power. Kind God, may I receive the Body of Your only-begotten Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, born from the womb of the Virgin Mary, and so be received into His mystical body and numbered among His members.Loving Father, as on my earthly pilgrimage I now receive Your beloved Son under the veil of a sacrament, may I one day see Him face to face in glory, who lives and reigns with You forever. Amen. By Knights of the Holy Eucharist. Readings Lectures Reflection
First Reading Exodus 32:7-14
Moses pleads with the Lord his God to spare Israel
The Lord spoke to Moses, ‘Go down now, because your people whom you brought out of Egypt have apostatised. They have been quick to leave the way I marked out for them; they have made themselves a calf of molten metal and have worshipped it and offered it sacrifice. “Here is your God, Israel,” they have cried “who brought you up from the land of Egypt!”’ the Lord said to Moses, ‘I can see how headstrong these people are! Leave me, now, my wrath shall blaze out against them and devour them; of you, however, I will make a great nation.'
But Moses pleaded with the Lord his God. ‘Lord,’ he said ‘why should your wrath blaze out against this people of yours whom you brought out of the land of Egypt with arm outstretched and mighty hand? Why let the Egyptians say, “Ah, it was in treachery that he brought them out, to do them to death in the mountains and wipe them off the face of the earth”? Leave your burning wrath; relent and do not bring this disaster on your people. Remember Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, your servants to whom by your own self you swore and made this promise: I will make your offspring as many as the stars of heaven, and all this land which I promised I will give to your descendants, and it shall be their heritage for ever.’
So the Lord relented and did not bring on his people the disaster he had threatened.
Responsorial Psalm
O Lord, remember me out of the love you have for your people
Gospel John 5:31-47
You place your hopes on
Moses but Moses will be your accuser
Jesus said to the Jews:
‘Were I to testify on
my own behalf, my testimony would not be valid; but there is another witness
who can speak on my behalf, and I know that his testimony is valid. You sent
messengers to John, and he gave his testimony to the truth: not that I depend
on human testimony; no, it is for your salvation that I speak of this. John was a lamp alight and shining and for a time you were
content to enjoy the light that he gave. But my testimony is greater than
John’s: the works my Father has given me to carry out, these same works of mine
testify that the Father has
sent me. Besides, the Father who sent me bears witness to me himself. You have never heard
his voice, you have never seen his shape, and his word finds no home in you because
you do not believe in the one he has sent.
‘You study the
scriptures, believing that in them you have eternal life; now these same
scriptures testify to me, and yet you refuse to come to me for life! As for
human approval, this means nothing to me. Besides, I know you too well: you
have no love of God in you. I have come in the name
of my Father and you refuse to accept me; if someone else comes in his own name
you will accept him. How can you believe, since you look to one another for
approval and are not concerned with the approval that comes from the one God? Do
not imagine that I am going to accuse you before the Father: you place your
hopes on Moses, and Moses will be your
accuser. If you really believed him you would believe me too, since it was I
that he was writing about; but if you refuse to believe what he wrote, how can
you believe what I say?’
Lord Jesus Christ you have the message of eternl life. You are light that came into the world to dispel our darkness. Your words are spirit and they are life. Lord I believe in you. You are the Son of God most high. You came to set us free from all forms of slavery and bondage. Lord Jesus Christ I believe in your word. I trust in you. Thank you heavenly Father for your mercy and love, thank you Lord Jesus Christ for loving me
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