Saints Martha, Mary and Lazarus' story

Martha, Mary, and their brother Lazarus were evidently close friends of Jesus.

Martha generously offered him hospitality, Mary listened attentively to his words

and Lazarus promptly emerged from the tomb.

 

Saint Martha, Saint Mary and Saint Lazarus

1st Reading: Jeremiah 13:1-11

This is what Yahweh said to me:

 Jesus’ words is the key to life.

Ears devoted to the words of Jesus are good soil.

The word of God falls on sterile grounds. It could not bear fruit.

It can also be choked and stifled by our many concerns.

 

 St. Sharbel Makhluf, priest

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Jeremiah 1:1, 4-10

These are the words of Jeremiah,

 

People are out in the open following the Lord and listening to every word that comes from His mouth. It must have been their hunger for the word of life.'

He also makes use of other created reality to nourish us and hence for us to experience his boundless and overflowing goodness.

  

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2 Kings 4:42-44

A man came from

                                                 

                                                                                                                                                                            "Therefore, making a Synod on Synodality does not mean doing it on a theme like so many others,

                                                                                                                                            but on the deeper identity of the Church as communion and mission that becomes concrete,

                                                                                                                                            historically incisive when it is participated by all. the Church is such, in fact,

                                                                                                                                            only when it is carried on its shoulders by all and shared in its heart by all,

                                                                                                                                            at the service of its brothers and sisters, especially beginning with the last,

                                                                                                                                            the discarded, and the existential and spiritual peripheries of our time."

                                                                                                           Msgr. Piero Coda,

                                                                                                            Member of the theological 

                                                                                                              Commission of the Synod 2021-2023

St. Bridget, religious

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Micah 7:14-15, 18-20

Shepherd your people

 

Jesus is sowing gospel seeds throughout the world.

The enemy is in the world spreading counterfeit seed.

Evil sometimes mix with the good. It subtly grows and wreak havoc.

 

Blessed Virgin Mary

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Jeremiah 7:1-11

These words were spoken

 

 Pope Benedict said. “A disciple of Christ is one who,

in the experience of human weakness, has had the humility to ask for his help,

has been healed by him and has set out following closely after him,

becoming a witness of the power of his merciful love that is stronger than sin and death.”

 

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Song of Songs 3:1-4b (2 Corinthians 5:14-17)

On my bed at night

 What does the parable mean?

Jesus teachings because it is drawn from the ordinary popular life exeriences of people.

The heart is important in receiving God’s word.

Clean our hearts from things that might choke the fertile capacity of God’s word to grow in our lives.

It determines the abundance of harvest one could make when listening to God’s word.

 

 Saint Joachim and Saint Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary

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Jeremiah 3:14-17

Come back, faithless people –

 Mission is not just about works and activities. Rest is part of doing mission.
That is why He asks His disciples to go to secluded place by themselves.

In today's Gospel, Jesus is presented to have empathized both with his disciples and the people.

Jesus must have felt the tiredness of the apostles whom he sent out on a mission.

Hence, he invited them to a remote place where they could rest.

Likewise, Jesus had empathy with the people when he saw their condition likened to sheep without a shepherd.

 

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Jeremiah 23:1-6

"Woe to the shepherds

 

Whoever wants to become great among you must be your servant,

Jesus is calling the disciples to follow the same path to greatness: humble, sacrificial service to each other.

 

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1st Reading: 2 Corinthians 4:7-15

However, we carry this treasure

Though the Pharisees persecuted Christ for doing good, yet he went on in it.

Christ’s intention in his miracles was to prove himself the Messiah,

That our Saviour was God’s Servant, He submitted himself to the Father’s will, in the great work of our redemption.

The pleasure of the Father in Christ ; Behold, my Servant whom I have chosen, my Beloved in whom my soul is well pleased.

 

 Blessed Virgin Mary

St. Apollinaris, bishop & martyr

 

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Micah 2:1-5

Woe to those