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"The New Covenant is not a covenant of written letters but of the Spirit; the written letters bring death, but the Spirit gives life." This is precisely what Christ's teachings do to us, His followers. Our relationship with Him in the New Covenant is one that is spirit-filled and alive! Being alive, we can be constantly in touch with the voice of God and respond according to the Spirit. But with his saying, "I have not come to abolish the Law but to complete it." This response to the spirit may seem contradictory. However, Jesus intended that we value the Jewish inheritance without their negative developments the Pharisees had brought about. The whole of the Old Testament has religious value for Jesus' followers and should continue to be preserved, prayed, studied and preached as Jesus did, so as to be a new covenant for all of us. It is in this context that Jesus wanted to further condemn hypocrisy and stress the authenticity required in discipleship. Constant practice of the examination of conscience helps us to distinguish between what is for God or otherwise. Lord, help us to be true in both our words and actions so that we may be true witnesses to Your Word. |
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That our every activity may have its beginning and its end in Christ present in the Eucharist
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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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