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1st Week of Lent
Lev. 19:1-2,11-18
Ps. 19(18):8,9,10,15
Mt. 25:31-46
(Ps Wk I)
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Our God is a self-revealing God, who is anxious to communicate with us to reveal what He is like. What is God like, then? From Yahweh's conversation with Moses (today's first reading), we see God in a bundle of dynamic, loving relationships, which bind the Triune God, ourselves and our neighbour together, like a triangle.

God tells us that he is the Holy One, and commands us to be holy like him. The commandment of holiness is most striking in the ways God commands us to deal with one another. A God-fearing person makes peace in the family, speaks out firmly against the wrong-doings of fellow-countrymen, plays fair with the neighbour's life and possessions, and gives facility to the deprived and disabled. Here is the kind of person in whom the Holy One works!

The Son of Man, presiding over the Last Judgement in the name of the Father, will single out the holy ones to present them to the Father. In their lives they have been holy and compassionate like Jesus of the gospels, who reveals the Father.




Lord God, may our hearts rejoice in your commandment of love and compassion. May you be blessed!

DAILY OFFERING
Eternal Father, I offer You everything I do this day; my thoughts, words, joys and sufferings. Grant that, vivified by the Holy Spirit and united to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, my life this day may be of service to You and to others. I also pray that all those preparing for marriage discover in Sacrament the source of Christ's grace for living a fithful and fruitful love. Amen.

PRAYING WITH THE CHURCH
INTENTION
That all cultures may respect the rights and dignity of women.
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