Today is Sunday in the Eleventh Week of Ordinary Time. Today's Bible 
readings portray God as kind, good, loving, compassionate, even moved with 
pity. Can God be emotionally moved with compassion? We do not know. But he 
can be so in and through the heart of the Lord Jesus. The message of today 
is: We, you and I, are God's own, his special possession. Let us appreciate 
this invitation to intimacy with God! Love is a two-way street. A love 
relationship can easily lose its flavor through indifference and lack of 
constant care. Keep contact with God, especially through regular meditative 
Bible reading.
    The manifestations of God on Mount Sinai are perhaps the best known of the 
Bible. Of course, a human imagery in vogue during Biblical times is used. 
Clouds, thunder, lightning - these are so many images to describe the 
awe-inspiring presence of God.
    In the second reading, again, God's love is suggested as a topic for 
meditative reading. "God proves his love for us." Paul brings out that God's 
love is not a sentimental love. He reasons: Someone may have the courage to 
die for a good man. But Christ died for us while we were still sinners. Hence, 
we should be all the more appreciative of God's love.
    "The heart of Jesus was moved with pity." In the Lord Jesus, God's loving 
care became a really human, emotional love, for all of us. He cares, and he 
shows it through compassion for deprived, sick, and unhappy people. Notice 
that in the mind of the ancients disease was caused by evil spirits or 
demons. Hence, a sick person did not go first of all to a doctor but to the 
holy man to ask him to pray and cast out the demon.
    

Today's Prayer

Almighty God, our hope and our strength, without you we falter. Help us to follow Christ and to live according to your will. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Spiritual Communion Prayer

Please join us with this prayer in asking the Lord Jesus to be with you.

Act of Spiritual Communion My Jesus, I believe that You are in the Blessed Sacrament. I love You above all things, and I long for you in my soul. Since I cannot now receive You sacramentally, come at least spiritually into my heart. I know You have already come. I embrace You and unite myself entirely to You; never permit me to be separated from You.

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