MARY, OUR MOTHER: Sunday Is Not Just Another Day of the Week

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Sunday Is Not Just Another Day of the Week | Courageous Priest

My Dear People,

Take the Lenten Challenge to Make God Your First Priority

Jesus was led into the desert by the devil to be tempted. In the first temptation, the devil tells Jesus to change stones into bread. Our Lord refused to make idols of things that have no life in them. We are tempted to make animation objects come alive. TV, the internet, money, homes can all take a life of their own if we allow them. The second temptation involved the sin of presumption. “Call down your angels to rescue you after leaping from the parapet of the Temple.” Jesus refused to temp the Lord God. How many times do we presume, because of our pride, that it is OK to assume authority that is not ours? The third temptation involved lusting after the goods of this world. Jesus refused to worship anything that was not glorifying His Heavenly Father. When do we chase after the goods of the earth, in place of loving Our God first.

Sunday has become another day of the week. We work, shop, become consumed by sports activities all in the name of “pleasure” and convenience. And where does this leave Our Lord? Jesus gained for us all the graces that we need so we will not offend God by committing these sins. Lent is a time to reflect and re-arrange our lives to better know, love and serve God. Take the Lenten challenge to make God your first priority.

Entrusting you to the care of Our Lady,

Fr. Mark Bozada

May we seek the living God this Lent, confessing our many sins, and choosing to live a more merciful life.

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

Saturday, March 19, 2011

Sunday Is Not Just Another Day of the Week | Courageous Priest

Take the Lenten Challenge to Make God Your First Priority

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