God says : I Love you
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Thank you Lord for Loving me
and thanks for your Love
passing through me
into others hearts.
Wednesday, April 1 Holy Wednesday
Isaiah 50:4-9a
“Morning after morning God wakens my ear to hear as disciples do.”
And I can keep my ear awake to listen to him all day long amid my activities and all night long while I sleep.
Matthew 26:14-25
“Where do you want us to prepare for you to eat the Passover?”
They did not know what was the Passover meal that was being prepared before them. Jesus becomes the one who offers his food for the forgiveness of sins.
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Tuesday, March 31 Holy Tuesday
Isaiah 49:1-6
"Before birth the Lord called me, from my mother’s womb he gave me my name."
Because life in the womb is the life of God.
John 13:21-33, 36-38
Truly, no one can fully grasp the true mission of Jesus in the world. It is also a challenge today to bring people to discover God's presence within them.
Let us reveal the joy in each person, and in doing so, we reveal God to them.
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Made in Love we are. No one can undo that work of love. We can only reject it.
Monday, March 30 Holy Monday
Isaiah 42:1-7
“formed you, and set you as a covenant for the people, a light for the nations.”
This text foreshadows the presence of Jesus in the world. It can also challenge us.
The covenant God makes with us is to fill us with his grace. Let us share his grace by helping people discover joy in their lives.
John 12:1-11
“Mary took a liter of costly perfumed oil made from genuine aromatic nard and anointed the feet of Jesus.”
When a person welcomes God’s love, their heart overflows with the sweet fragrance of love.
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Sunday, March 29 Passion
Old Testament
Jesus is on his way to Jerusalem. Riding on a donkey signifies that he is king. Solomon, the son of David, also entered Jerusalem riding on a donkey before he was crowned king. This is what Jesus' triumphant entry into Jerusalem represents.
No one truly knows Jesus. Even his closest friends and family cannot imagine the kingship Jesus possesses. He enters as a king.
New Testament
Those who joyfully wave their palm branches may think that Jesus was sent by God to dethrone the king of Israel, fight the king of Egypt, and liberate Jerusalem. They have no idea of Jesus' true divine mission.
Jesus also encounters people who do not know God.
Jesus has a mission that comes from the Father, and to gather every person in Love. Today, do we welcome the love, joy, and peace of God that is within us?
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Saturday, March 28
Ezekiel 37:21-28
“I will be their God.”
In the present tense: I am their God. Let us welcome God who is already in our hearts. God is our God.
John 11:45-57
It is difficult to realize that God is in our midst when people are campaigning against his love, his joy, and his peace.
Let us start a network of joy, so that the world may discover God’s presence in every heart.
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Friday, March 27
Jeremiah 20:10-13
Listening and talking with someone is easier than persecuting them.
Jeremiah has good intentions, but some people don't know how to listen to him, and they want to kill him.
John 10:31-42
Some people want to stone Jesus.
Learning to discover the beauty of God in people's hearts helps us avoid judging too quickly.
Thursday, March 26
Genesis 17:3-9
God said to Abram, “Between you and me I will establish my covenant.”
God makes a covenant with every person. And he sends us out on the road to share his peace.
John 8:51-59
Jesus said, “Before Abraham came to be, I AM.”
“I AM” is very clear. God is present and always with us in the present. No one can fully grasp the present. Let us welcome God’s grace in the present moment.
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Wednesday, March 25
Isaiah 7:10-14; 8:10
Asking for signs is seeking God.
Let us observe the joy of the child within us, and we will discover more about God.
Hebrews 10:4-10
The presence of God in our lives keeps us from sin. Glory to God, Alleluia!
Luke 1:26-38
Mary says yes and receives the presence of the child Jesus within her. Mary's joy is filled by the presence of the joy of the Child Jesus within her.
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Tuesday, March 24
Numbers 21:4-9
“We have sinned in complaining against the Lord.”
To grumble against God is to distance ourselves from God, and this leads to evil. Let us allow God to walk with us, and joy will be revealed more fully.
John 8:21-30
Jesus said, “You will look for me, but you will die in your sin.”
To distance oneself from God, is a sin. Sin, just like seeking (looking for), is a separation from God.
Let us allow God’s grace within us to heal and purify us.
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Monday, March 23
Daniel 13:41c-62
What is remarkable about Susanna is that she turned to the Lord.
John 8:1-11
Often, people who do evil want to condemn others to ease their conscience. This is what is happening here, with the sinful men.
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Saturday, March 21
Jeremiah 11:18-20
Jeremiah speaks with the Lord: “At that time you showed me their doings.”
People who prey on others often do so openly. Jeremiah realizes he is caught in their trap.
John 7:40-43
“The Messiah will not come from Galilee, will he? Does not scripture say that the Messiah will be of David’s family and come from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”
This demonstrates how a small detail can lead uninformed people to turn away from Jesus.
By focusing too much on details, people drift away from God’s love.
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Friday, March 20
Wisdom 2:1a, 12-22
Those who attack the righteous say, “He calls blest the destiny of the righteous and boasts that God is his Father.”
Being happy is for the end of our lives, but also right now.
John 7:1-2, 10, 14, 25-30
So some of the inhabitants of Jerusalem said, “Is he not the one they are trying to kill? And look, he is speaking openly and they say nothing to him. Could the authorities have realized that he is the Messiah”
Normally, people who hear rumors, they don’t go to the source to check. And this confuses the people. And no one knows who Jesus is.
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Thursday, March 19 Luke 2:41 or Matthew 1:16 Romans 4:13 2 Samuel 7:4
2 Samuel 7:4-5a, 12-14a, 16
God said to David, “I will raise up your offspring after you, sprung from your loins, and I will establish his kingdom.”
This is a prefiguration of the coming Messiah, God with us, Emmanuel.
Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22
Grace is God’s inheritance for us.
Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24a
“Joseph, son of David, do not be afraid to take Mary your wife into your home. For it is through the holy Spirit that this child has been conceived in her. She will bear a son and you are to name him Jesus.”
When the work is God’s, he clearly informs the one (Joseph) who will be with him (the Lord) in the mission (of the Lord).
Luke 2:41-51a
“Why were you looking for me?”
For parents, it’s normal to look for their child. But Jesus is already beginning to point toward heaven.
The reality of God is that it’s not necessary to look for him, since he is with us.”
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Wednesday, March 18
Isaiah 49:8-15
“I form you and set you as a covenant for the people, to restore the land.”
Lord, thank you for walking with us, and we want to receive your wisdom to guide your people well.
John 5:17-30
“The Father gives life.”
God is life within us. This life is love, peace, and joy.
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Tuesday, March 17
Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12
“Along each bank of the river every kind of fruit tree will grow.”
Despite our limitations in allowing God’s grace to flow freely, together we allow joy and peace to flow from heart to heart.
John 5:1-16
Let us place our trust in the Lord. God’s love is the first healing.
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Monday, March 16
Isaiah 65:17-21
“No longer shall the sound of weeping be heard there, or the sound of crying.”
When we live in the present moment, when we welcome God’s love, life, joy, and peace, we are more joyful. To be with God in this moment is already to live with him.
John 4:43-54
Jesus reveals that life continues in the child. He performs this sign in preparation for his resurrection, and a sign that life continues.
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Sunday, March 15
1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a
The anointing with oil represents God's grace in David's being.
David must constantly remain in the Lord's presence so that God's grace may be perceived by others.
Ephesians 5:8-14
"You are light in the Lord. Live as children of light."
This connects to the reality of grace in every person, as in David. Let us become beings of peace and joy.
John 9:1-41
"The blind man went, washed and came back able to see."
This is what happens when we listen to the wisdom of Christ. Everything becomes clear and simple.
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Saturday, March 14
Hosea 6:1-6
“It is loyalty that I desire, not sacrifice.”
God needs nothing; He has everything; He is Love. He simply invites us to be close to Him as He is close to us. In this way, it is easy to receive His Love from the source of His Heart.
Luke 18:9-14
The parable of the tax collector and the Pharisee remind us not to judge others or ourselves. Let us remain in the peace of the Lord, and those around us will receive this peace from the Heart of God.
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Friday, March 13
Hosea 14:2-10
“We will never again say, ‘Our god,’ to the work of our hands.’”
This is logical; we do not worship a representation, but what it represents, that is, God, when it is God. We do not worship an image of our parents, but God who, through his love, entered the hearts of our parents and who experienced it with us.
Mark 12:28b-34
“The Lord our God is Lord alone! You shall love the Lord your God.”
To love God, let us learn to let ourselves be loved by him, let us remain with him.
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Thursday, March 12
Jeremiah 7:23-28
“This is the nation which does not listen to the voice of the Lord, its God.”
In the Bible, there is always the duality between the love of God, listening to Him, and the distance from God’s love… not listening to Him.
Luke 11:14-23
“Whoever is not with me is against me.”
Whoever is not with Jesus hurts themselves and others.
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