First Reading – Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9 ©
Responsorial – Daniel 3:52-56 ©
Second Reading – 2 Corinthians
13:11-13 ©
Gospel Acclamation – Revelation 1:8
The
Gospel According to John 3:16 - 18 ©
(NJB)
Listen!
God, the creator of the universe, God is a loving
God.
The creator of the universe loves the divine
creation, and each of us along with it. God has promised our salvation, which
simply means: to be made well, God has promised our salvation and the salvation
of the entire created order, the whole that includes each and every part, each
and every person.
Be mindful.
The salvation that God has promised is not of this
world.
God does not intervene in human affairs, or in the
movement of the planets and stars.
God did not travel with the Israelites, God did not
speak with Moses, accept in his heart where God speaks to all of us.
Know this!
God does not require, or even desire our praise and
exaltations, except insofar as those praises take the form of mercy, humility
and compassion expressed toward one another.
God does not dwell in a temple; God is present in
all places, in everyone…and to everyone.
Remember, God is not a king.
Serve the divine will through the love and kindness
you show one another., do it with a generous spirit, and without a thought of
reward for yourself.
Be mindful.
The eyes of God are on all people, the just and the
unjust alike. God hears everything and feels everything. Though God is not
sensate in the way that we are, nevertheless, God knows our thoughts and
understands our experiences, even as we understand them ourselves.
It is true that God desires that we be perfect,
though God does not expect it, and God understands all of our failures.
The spiritual path is a movement toward perfection,
it is like reaching for the sun.
Know this!
We did not originate in perfection, perfection is
not a thing that we ever possessed there fore we did not lose it. The story of
The Fall, its material conditions and its final cause is a myth, it is a poor
myth that misconstrues reality, the misconstrual is tantamount to a lie, to
perpetuate it is to violates our obligation to the spirit of truth.
Listen!
We are born in the evolutionary muck, with the
innate desire to discover the divine. Our perfection is intimately bound up
with the perfection of others, because the other—every other person is a part
of who we are.
Know this.
Jesus is not a king or a ruler, he is not a priest
but a prophet; Jesus is a friend, a comforter and healer. He came to show us the
way.
Consider
the gospel for today.
The
gift of life is not transactional.
It
is free.
We
do not have to ask for it, just as we did not ask to be born; like true love,
eternal life comes to us without conditions.
God
spoke to us in the person of Jesus. If you trust in his teachings you will find
peace in the world; this is the essence of Christian hope. You will understand
that the things we endure here: pain, suffering, alienation, uncertainty,
hunger, disease and death are all temporary.
You
will see the world of light and life beyond the funeral shroud that is our
common inheritance
Know
this!
There
is no condemnation in God, and you will not find it in Jesus’ ministry. There
is hope and love, and mercy; there is justice.
No
one is condemned because they refuse to believe in the scriptures, in Christian
doctrine, or the dogma of the church. God continuously pours out the divine
love on all creation. We are often too poor to receive it, or even see it
flowing through us, but God is patient.
There
is no magic power in a name or an article of belief, not even in the name of
Jesus or belief in him, whatever that might mean.
Rather,
if you do not trust in the way of Jesus, and trust is the meaning of
faith, if you are not able to have faith in the way, if you are selfish instead
of giving, malicious instead of loving, harmful instead of healing, then you
will suffer in this world…you will suffer
from broken relationships, social resentments and alienation.
Faith
in Jesus means liberation in the here and now, liberation in the present
reality, which is a blessing to everyone who finds it, and to all whom they
encounter.
First Reading – Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9 ©
'Lord, Lord, a God of Tenderness and Compassion'
With the two tablets of stone in his hands, Moses
went up the mountain of Sinai in the early morning as the Lord had commanded
him. And the Lord descended in the form of a cloud, and Moses stood with him
there.
He called on the name of the Lord. The Lord passed
before him and proclaimed, ‘The Lord, a God of tenderness and compassion, slow
to anger, rich in kindness and faithfulness.’ And Moses bowed down to the
ground at once and worshipped. ‘If I have indeed won your favour, Lord,’ he
said ‘let my Lord come with us, I beg. True, they are a headstrong people, but
forgive us our faults and our sins, and adopt us as your heritage.’
Responsorial
– Daniel 3:52-56 ©
To you glory and praise for evermore.
You are blest, Lord God of our fathers.
To you glory and praise for evermore.
Blest your glorious holy name.
To you glory and praise for evermore.
You are blest in the temple of your glory.
To you glory and praise for evermore.
You are blest on the throne of your kingdom.
To you glory and praise for evermore.
You are blest who gaze into the depths.
To you glory and praise for evermore.
You are blest in the firmament of heaven.
To you glory and praise for evermore.
Second Reading – 2 Corinthians
13:11-13 ©
The Grace of Jesus Christ, the Love
of God, and the Fellowship of the Holy Spirit
Brothers, we wish you happiness; try to grow
perfect; help one another. Be united; live in peace, and the God of love and
peace will be with you.
Greet one another with the holy kiss. All the saints
send you greetings.
The grace of the Lord Jesus Christ, the love of God
and the fellowship of the Holy Spirit be with you all.
Gospel Acclamation – Revelation 1:8
Alleluia, alleluia!
Glory be to the Father, and to the Son, and to the Holy
Spirit; the God who is, who was, and who is to come.
Alleluia!
The Gospel According to John 3:16 -
18 ©
Jesus
said to Nicodemus:
‘God
loved the world so much that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who
believes in him may not be lost but may have eternal life. For God sent his Son
into the world
not
to condemn the world, but so that through him the world might be saved. No one
who believes in him will be condemned; but whoever refuses to believe is
condemned already, because he has refused to believe in the name of God’s only
Son.’
The Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time (Year
A) The Most Holy Trinity
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