2:03 am

The Catholic Calendar for Friday, March 4, 2004
Friday of the Third Week of Lent

Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Hosea 14:2-10
Psalm 81:6-11,14,17
Mark 12:28-34

A reflection on today's Sacred Scripture:

"You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart. . ."

The first and most important of the commandments is to have complete love and self-giving to God. We are called to love Him with all of our strength, heart, soul, and mind--in other words, with every fiber of our being. And the second commandment follows from the first--we will love those who are in the image and likeness of God. In the first letter of John we are asked how we can pretend that we love God whom we cannot see if we do not show evidence of loving our neighbor whom we can see.

And this sacrifice of love is worth all the sacrifices of the old covenant. When we can let go of ourselves enough to love God completely, we have sacrificed the only thing of value to God--our self-will. When we love Him, we will love those He has created--it cannot be otherwise. And once we grasp these truths, we too shall not be far from the kingdom of God.

- JuandelaCruz
(sriddle415 at yahoo dot com)
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As we talked about a passion for God, a growing awareness of his presence, and a desire to do whatever I can to increase that, I realised that the thing which cultivated this passion in me, was to read and tell stories of Jesus.

This blog provides Daily stories of Jesus - some straight from various translations of the gospels, I hope about once a week- a re-told story. I find that the more I hear stories of Jesus , and the more we hear them, the more I discover what it means for us to have a passion for Jesus in our lives, and an deeper involvement with him.

As I ponder the stories I post, I am finding more and more that things hit me a few days later. What better to occupy my mind than stories of Jesus.

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