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A mazing possibilities await us.  Let’s look to the saints and how they live we can follow in their foot steps.   Reflection from Dynamic Catholic Readings from USCCB.org   Alleluia  MT 11:29AB  R.  Alleluia, alleluia. Take my yoke upon you and learn from me, for I am meek and humble of heart.  R.  Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel  LK 14:1, 7-11  On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. He told a parable to those who had been invited, noticing how they were choosing the places of honor at the table. “When you are invited by someone to a wedding banquet, do not recline at table in the place of honor. A more distinguished guest than you may have been invited by him, and the host who invited both of you may approach you and say, ‘Give your place to this man,’ and then you would proceed with embarrassment to take the lowest place. Rather, when you are invited,...

A mazing possibilities await us when we remain open and willing. In the classroom of silence go before the Lord open and available  Reflection from Dynamic Catholic  Reading from USCCB.org Alleluia  JN 10:27  R.  Alleluia, alleluia. My sheep hear my voice, says the Lord; I know them, and they follow me. R.  Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel  LK 14:1-6  On a sabbath Jesus went to dine at the home of one of the leading Pharisees, and the people there were observing him carefully. In front of him there was a man suffering from dropsy. Jesus spoke to the scholars of the law and Pharisees in reply, asking, “Is it lawful to cure on the sabbath or not?” But they kept silent; so he took the man and, after he had healed him, dismissed him. Then he said to them    “Who among you, if your son or ox falls into a cistern, would not immediately pull him out on the sabbath day?”   But they were unable to answer his question. Blessings

A mazing possibilities await all of us who make ourselves available to God.  Reflection from Dynamic Catholic Readings from USCCB.org Responsorial Psalm  144:1B, 2, 9-10  R. (1b)  Blessed be the Lord, my Rock! Blessed be the LORD, my rock, who trains my hands for battle, my fingers for war. R.  Blessed be the Lord, my Rock! My mercy and my fortress, my stronghold, my deliverer, My shield, in whom I trust, who subdues my people under me. R.  Blessed be the Lord, my Rock! O God, I will sing a new song to you; with a ten-stringed lyre I will chant your praise, You who give victory to kings, and deliver David, your servant from the evil sword. R.  Blessed be the Lord, my Rock!     Alleluia  See LK 19:38; 2:14  R.  Alleluia, alleluia. Blessed is the king who comes in the name of the Lord. Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace to those on whom his favor rests. R.  Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel  LK 13:31-35 Some Pharis...

A mazing possibilities await us. Follow the example of the apostles. Giving up everything and being available to God Following Him everywhere.  Reflection from Dynamic Catholic Reading from USCCB.org  Alleluia  R.  Alleluia, alleluia. We praise you, O God, we acclaim you as Lord; the glorious company of Apostles praise you. R.  Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel  LK 6:12-16  Jesus went up to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. Blessing 

A mazing possibilities are waiting for us. Open to the will of the Father and open to the guidance of the Holy Spirit though Our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. This openness will allow the Kingdom of God to begin here and now.  Reflections from Dynamic Catholic Readings from USCCB.org Responsorial Psalm  PS 128:1-2, 3, 4-5  R. (1a)  Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Blessed are you who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways! For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; blessed shall you be, and favored. R.  Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recesses of your home; Your children like olive plants around your table. R.   Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD. The LORD bless you from Zion: may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem all the days of your life. R.  Blessed are those who fear the Lord.     Alleluia  See MT 11:25  R.  ...

A mazing possibilities await us when we remain open to God. Allow the Holy Spirit to guide you. Go before Him in the classroom of silence seeking the will of the Father the Spirit will guide you. Listen Reflection from Dynamic Catholic Readings from USCCB.org Alleluia  JN 17:17B, 17A R.  Alleluia, alleluia. Your word, O Lord, is truth; consecrate us in the truth. R.  Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel  LK 13:10-17  Jesus was teaching in a synagogue on the sabbath. And a woman was there who for eighteen years had been crippled by a spirit; she was bent over, completely incapable of standing erect. When Jesus saw her, he called to her and said, “Woman, you are set free of your infirmity.” He laid his hands on her, and she at once stood up straight and glorified God. But the leader of the synagogue, indignant that Jesus had cured on the sabbath, said to the crowd in reply, “There are six days when work should be done. Come on those days to be cured, not on the sabbath day....

A mazing possibilities await us  let us open ourselves to God and ask the Holy Spirit to guide us.  Reflection from Dynamic Catholic Reading from USCCB.org Alleluia  JN 14:23  R.  Alleluia, alleluia. Whoever loves me will keep my word, says the Lord, and my Father will love him and we will come to him. R.  Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel  MT 22:34-40  When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law tested him by asking, "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?"  He said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your neighbor as yourself.  The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments." Blessing 

A mazing possibilities await us when we remain available to God. Sometimes this will bring change. Sometimes this brings growth. It always will bring light if we allow it.  Reflections from Dynamic Catholic  Readings from USCCB.org   Alleluia  EZ 33:11  R.  Alleluia, alleluia. I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, says the Lord, but rather in his conversion that he may live. R.  Alleluia, alleluia. Gospel  LK 13:1-9  Some people told Jesus about the Galileans whose blood Pilate had mingled with the blood of their sacrifices. He said to them in reply,  “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way  they were greater sinners than all other Galileans? By no means! But I tell you, if you do not repent, you will all perish as they did! Or those eighteen people who were killed  when the tower at Siloam fell on them– do you think they were more guilty  than everyone else who lived in Jerusalem? By n...