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BE LIKE LITTLE CHILDREN

TUESDAY WEEK 26 IN ORDINARY TIME: Universalis
Let my prayer come into your presence, O Lord

Reading Job  3:1-3,11-17,20-23 Why did I not perish on the day I was born?

Job broke the silence and cursed the day of his birth. This is what he said:May the day perish when I was born, and the night that told of a boy conceived.Why did I not die new-born,  not perish as I left the womb?Why were there two knees to receive me, two breasts for me to suck? Had there not been, I should now be lying in peace, wrapped in a restful slumber, with the kings and high viziers of earth  who build themselves vast vaults, or with princes who have gold and to spare  and houses crammed with silver. Or put away like a still-born child that never came to be, like unborn babes that never see the light. Down there, bad men bustle no more,  there the weary rest.

Why give light to a man of grief?  Why give life to those bitter of heart, who long for a death that never comes,  and hunt for it more than for a buried treasure? They would be glad to see the grave-moundand shout with joy if they reached the tomb.

Why make this gift of light to a man who does not see his way,  whom God baulks on every side?

Responsorial Psalm: Let my prayer come into your presence, O Lord.

Gospel Matthew 18:1-5
Unless you become like little children you will not enter the kingdom of heaven

The disciples came to Jesus and said, ‘Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven?’ So he called a little child to him and set the child in front of them. Then he said, ‘I tell you solemnly, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of heaven. And so, the one who makes himself as little as this little child is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven. 

‘Anyone who welcomes a little child like this in my name welcomes me.’

Let us pray our Rosary, October is the month of the Holy Rosary: May our Blessed Mother pray for us. Jesus, I trust in you. Saint Joseph pray for me. Saint Terese pray for me. God's Holy Angels pray for me. My Angel Guardian pray for me.

Lecture: AELF

We sing to our Blessed Mother. May her maternal protection protect us, and bring us closer to her Son, Jesus Christ our Lord and Redeemer.

Hail Thou Star of  Ocean
As the Dewy Shades

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