CHRISTOLOGY YOU ARE THE CHRIST
24TH SUNDAY IN ORD. TIME
O my God, I love Thee with all my heart, with all my soul, with all my strength and with no other desire than to be inseparably united to Thee. It is through Thy Divine Son that this union is about to be realized within me. In Holy Communion I long to identify myself with Him, that it will no longer be myself, but Him, who lives in me; and when I have received Jesus within myself, then I shall love and be loved by Thee in that same measure, in which I am united to Him. Hasten then, to give me Thy Divine Son, at the hands of Thy priest, that through Jesus, I may unite myself forever to Thee, O God the Father, in the unity of the Holy Spirit. Mass Readings Lectures du jour Reflection
First Reading Isaiah 50:5-9
I offered my back to those who
struck me
The Lord has opened my ear. For my part, I made no
resistance, neither did I turn away. I offered my back to those who struck me, my
cheeks to those who tore at my beard; I did not cover my face against insult
and spittle.
The Lord comes to my help, so
that I am untouched by the insults. So, too, I set my face like flint; I know I
shall not be shamed. My vindicator is here at hand. Does anyone start
proceedings against me?
Then let us go to court together.
Who thinks he has a case against me? Let him approach me.
The Lord is coming to my help,
who will dare to condemn me?
Second Reading James 2:14-18
Take the case, my brothers, of
someone who has never done a single good act but claims that he has faith. Will
that faith save him? If one of the brothers or one of the sisters is in need of
clothes and has not enough food to live on, and one of you says to them, ‘I
wish you well; keep yourself warm and eat plenty’, without giving them these
bare necessities of life, then what good is that? Faith is like that: if good works
do not go with it, it is quite dead.
This is the way to
talk to people of that kind: ‘You say you have faith and I have good deeds; I
will prove to you that I have faith by showing you my good deeds – now you
prove to me that you have faith without any good deeds to show.’
Gospel Acclamation
The only thing I can boast about is the cross of our Lord,
through whom the world is crucified to me, and I to the world.
Alleluia! Gal 614
Gospel Mark 8:27-35
The Son of Man is destined to
suffer grievously
Jesus and his disciples left
for the villages round Caesarea Philippi. On the way he put this question to
his disciples, ‘Who do people say I am?’ And they told him. ‘John the Baptist,’
they said ‘others Elijah; others again, one of the prophets.’ ‘But you,’ he
asked ‘who do you say I am?’ Peter spoke up and said to him, ‘You are the
Christ.’ And he gave them strict orders not to tell anyone about him.
And he began to
teach them that the Son of Man was destined to suffer grievously, to be
rejected by the elders and the chief priests and the scribes, and to be put to
death, and after three days to rise again; and he said all this quite openly.
Then, taking him aside, Peter started to remonstrate with him. But, turning and
seeing his disciples, he rebuked Peter and said to him, ‘Get behind me, Satan!
Because the way you think is not God’s way but man’s.’
He called the
people and his disciples to him and said, ‘If anyone wants to be a follower of
mine, let him renounce himself and take up his cross and follow me. For anyone
who wants to save his life will lose it; but anyone who loses his life for my
sake, and for the sake of the gospel, will save it.’
Lord Jesus Christ you are my Lord and Saviour. You are the Christ Son of God Most High. You are my Redeemer. You offered yourself to save the world. You are my healer. You are my wisdom. You are my deliverer. You are my light and my Salvation. You are my Saviour. You are All in All.
You are my God. Thank you for your love. Open my ears to hear you Lord. Bring me close to you my Lord and Master. Help me Lord in my work of faith. Open my heart, my eyes to see and percieve the needs of my fellow creatures.
Lord Jesus Christ I trust in you. Virgin Mary pray for me. Saint Joseph pray for me. My guardian angel guide and protect me.
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