Shalom

12Sep Wed	23rd Week in Ordinary Time
	Col. 3:1-11 Ps. 145:2-3, 10-13 Lk. 6:20-26

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Jesus fixes the eyes of love and compassion on the seekers after truth. The face of Jesus has challenged painters, poets, lovers. Luke's words paint their own picture. Jesus offers a recipe for happiness, broad hints of the joys of the kingdom. Paul applies the gospel to daily life, indicating opportunities and warning of obstacles along the road. Jesus offers freedom from the petty and demeaning tyrannies of self-seeking. For Paul the Christian's task is to develop and bring up to its perfection the image of God that we are. Only through a disciplined and purposeful life can we realise that 'there is only Christ: He is everything and He is in everything.

Lord, let me always reflect Your image in me.

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 the adolescents and young people of the third millennium may discover a profound ideal to devote themselves to.
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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 the adolescents and young people of the third millennium may discover a profound ideal to devote themselves to.
"Lord Jesus, you have made these young people your friends; keep them for ever close to you! Amen." This closing prayer of John Paul II at the Mass in Korazim in the Holy Land last year indicates the deep concern he has for the youth of the third millennium. At the Mount of Beatitudes, the Holy Father looked down on the assembled youth and said, "How may generations before us have been deeply moved by the Sermon on the Mount! How many young people down the centuries have gathered around Jesus to learn the words of eternal life, as you are gathered here today! It is wonderful that you are here!" The ideal the Holy Father proposes to the youth of today is that they look at Jesus, who embodies the Beatitudes. They will see what it means to be poor in spirit, gentle and merciful, to mourn, to care for what is right, to be pure in heart, to make peace, to be persecuted. He challenges them to go out into the world and preach the message of the Ten Commandments and the Beatitudes which speak of truth and goodness, and grace and freedom: of all that is necessary to enter Christ's Kingdom. Now it is their turn to be courageous apostles of that kingdom.
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