8 Jun
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9th Week in Ordinary Time
Tob. 11:5-17
Ps.146:2, 7, 8-10
Mk. 12:35-37
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The story of Tobit is one showing God's concern for His people, especially those who are poor and without resources. Tobit is blind, due to something like cataracts, but now his son, Tobias, guided by Raphael, the angel of God, is returning home with a fish. When the gall of the fish is rubbed on the old man's eyes, the cloudly film falls away and he can see his son again. He then breaks into a prayer of praise and thanksgiving. The story is an example of how God's providence, symbolised by Raphael under the appearance of a young man, takes care of those in need. This is something which happens to us every day. There are many Raphaels in our life, if only we could recognise them. They take the form of people we know, people we don't know, people we like and people we don't like. We might also, like Tobit, ask that the scales be removed from our own eyes so that we too can see, especially that we may recognise Jesus coming to us in the ordinary events of our daily lives.



Lord, grant that we may see and that we may help others too, to see how Your love touches our lives every day.

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
Elaboration

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P R A Y I N G    W I T H    T H E    C H U R C H    

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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