He wants our love.

Telling Him what we need, what we want, how much we love Him.

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 Acts 28:16-20, 30-31

Upon our arrival in Rome,

Stay in His presence."

“The Lord God has given Me (Christ) The tongue of the learned,

That I should know how to speak A word in season to him who is weary.

He awakens Me morning by morning, He awakens My ear To hear as the learned.

St. Marcellinus and St. Peter, martyrs

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Acts 19:1-8

While Apollos

You will never enjoy the sweetness of a quiet prayer,

unless you shut your mind, to all worldly desires and temporal affairs.                                                                     

                                                                  ~~~ St. Norbert, bishop

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Acts 25:13b-21

As they were to stay

 “ The messiah had to suffer. ”

This idea is rooted in Old Testament prophecies,

a suffering servant who will eventually be glorified.

Jesus Christ, fulfilled the prophecies of suffering and death,

The resurrection is seen as a confirmation of Christ's victory over sin

and death, and his ultimate glory. 

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Acts 1:1-11

In the first part of my work,

 He wants our love.

Telling Him what we need, what we want, how much we love Him.

I learn about Him by turning to Him, depending on Him, thanking Him, and loving others.

St. Boniface, bishop and martyr

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1st Reading: Acts 22:30; 23:6-11

The next day,

 Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah,

where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.

Elizabeth, filled with the Holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said,

“Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb."

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Zephaniah 3:14-18a (or Romans 12:9-16)

Cry out with joy, O daughter of Zion;

 "To bring the truth to others."

“We need to bring the truth to others, The truth teaches us to love one another,

because love covers over many offences.

God sometimes moves the soul that it reaches

the perfection of justice at once, as took place in the conversion of Paul”

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Acts 20:28-38

Keep watch over yourselves,

 "Christ never leaves us."

Worldly happiness dissipates or ends, while the path of Christ,

It will be a joy that no one will be able to take away from us.

For He Himself has said, “I will never leave you nor forsake you.” 

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Acts 18:9-18

One night, in a vision,

To have life to the full."

Jesus is for us. He guides us in the way we should live.

When we follow our Jesus, we are filled with peace and hope.

We manifest the fruit of the Spirit.

Charity is that with which no man is lost, and without which no man is saved.

  St. Charles Lwanga and companions, martyrs

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Acts 20:17-27

From Miletus,

 "Christian as an enemy of joy."

The mind of the Church in regard to Evangelisation at this time.

It matters very much for the success of the mission of the Church

that these roles be properly understood, lovingly accepted and dynamically carried out.”

St. Paul VI, pope

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1st Reading: Acts 18:1-8

After this, Paul left Athens and went to Corinth.