7 Jun
Thu 		9th Week in Ordinary Time
Tob. 6:10-11, 7:1, 9-17, 8:4-9a
Ps. 128:1-5
Mk. 12:28b-34
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Tobit and Sarah had a marriage truly made in heaven. The parents followed the laws of God promulgated by Moses and blessed the young couple. The prayer of the spouses praised God and showed their understanding of the union as one of mutual help and support to propagate their family and of sacrificing love. How many couples today have similar lofty ideals of marriage as planned from the beginning? The Bible story continues with the Lord's blessings on Tobit and Sarah.

Our Lord Jesus praised the religious leader who acknowledged the love of God and neighbour as the greatest commandment. Such love would be the natural response of grateful persons to the God who is love and created us in His own image. Human love is the reflection of divine love, and the love of spouses should be the ideal model for the human family. What neighbour is closer than one's spouse?

Genuine love of God must be total, with all one's heart, mind, soul and strength. Married love reaches out to involve the whole person with complete self- giving. The Christian is to follow Jesus' words in loving one's neighbour as one's self. But the Lord challenges us even further and commands us to love one another as He loved us.


Lord, let me share Your divine love with others, and as Christ's disciple offer my energy, time and even my life in helping especially those in need.

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 our every activity may have its beginning and its end in Christ present in the Eucharist
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INTENTION : That our every activity may have its beginning and its end in Christ present in the Eucharist

In this month, dedicated to the Sacred Heart, we are encouraged to contemplate the Heart of Jesus in the Eucharist. It will spur us to seek in that Heart the inexhaustible mystery of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church. It will enable us to taste the spiritual sweetness of charity at its very source. It will make us rediscover our baptismal promises and thus be made more aware of having to live our apostolic dimension by spreading love and participating in the mission of evangelisation.

We pray the Lord of the harvest to grant the Church "shepherds after His own Heart" who will be ready to go out into the highways of the world to proclaim that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. We pray that today's young people, docile to the voice of the Holy Spirit, will let the great expectations of the Church and of humanity resonate in the depths of their hearts and respond to Christ's invitation to consecrate, themselves enthusiastically and joyously with Him "for the life of the world".

The entire devotion to the Heart of Jesus is rooted and finds its summit in participation in the Holy Mass where we fraternally assembled, listen to the Word of God and learn to offer with Christ our lives.



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