Shalom

10 Jun Sun	Feast of the Blessed Trinity
	Prov. 8:22-31 Ps. 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9 Rom. 5:1-5 Jn. 16:12-15

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There are many highpoints of spirituality in the Old Testament, especially when the writers reflect on the greatness of the human person. Psalm 8 affirms that God has made us a little less than a god. This recalls the teaching of Genesis: God created us in the divine image. The fullness of revelation which came in Christ Jesus, however, carries us to even deeper levels of understanding. While the status of being "little less than a god" is indeed high praise for what God has done in us, the New Testament rises above this "little less" to affirm a deeper and more pervasive relationship with the Blessed Trinity. Both St John and St Paul reflect eloquently on this greater thing that God has done for us in Christ Jesus. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, through his incarnation and Paschal mystery, we have been brought to peace with God. In Paul's words, "we have been admitted into God's favour". This favour is that of a Father for those who have become his well-beloved children in the eternal Son made flesh. Then, because of the Paschal mystery of the Incarnate Son, the Holy Spirit dwells in our hearts in a special way.

Come Holy Spirit, guide our lives along the pathways of truth into the fullness of the mystery of God's love.

DAILY OFFERING

Eternal Father, I offer You everything I do this day; my thoughts, words, joys and sufferings. Grant that, vivified by the Holy Spirit and united to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, my life this day may be of service to You and to others. I also pray that all those preparing for marriage discover in Sacrament the source of Christ's grace for living a fithful and fruitful love. Amen.

PRAYING WITH THE CHURCH

INTENTION
That our every activity may have its beginning and its end in Christ present in the Eucharist
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P R A Y I N G W I T H T H E C H U R C H

INTENTION :	That our every activity may have its beginning and its end in Christ present in the Eucharist
In this month, dedicated to the Sacred Heart, we are encouraged to contemplate the Heart of Jesus in the Eucharist. It will spur us to seek in that Heart the inexhaustible mystery of the priesthood of Christ and of the Church. It will enable us to taste the spiritual sweetness of charity at its very source. It will make us rediscover our baptismal promises and thus be made more aware of having to live our apostolic dimension by spreading love and participating in the mission of evangelisation. We pray the Lord of the harvest to grant the Church "shepherds after His own Heart" who will be ready to go out into the highways of the world to proclaim that He is the Way, the Truth and the Life. We pray that today's young people, docile to the voice of the Holy Spirit, will let the great expectations of the Church and of humanity resonate in the depths of their hearts and respond to Christ's invitation to consecrate, themselves enthusiastically and joyously with Him "for the life of the world". The entire devotion to the Heart of Jesus is rooted and finds its summit in participation in the Holy Mass where we fraternally assembled, listen to the Word of God and learn to offer with Christ our lives.
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