Shalom

2 Jun Sat	7th Week of Easter
	Acts 28:16-20, 30- 31 Ps. 9:4-5, 7 Jn. 21:20-25

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"You are to follow me" - an instruction to Peter, but a timely reminder to us on this the last day of glorious Eastertide, before we embark on the 'ordinariness' 1 of the rest of the Liturgical Year.

Peter was told to follow Jesus unquestioningly not once but, emphatically, twice.

'Following Jesus' meant more than a 'physical going after' to Peter, to the other disciples who came after, and to committed Christians of later times like Cardinal John Newman. 'Following Jesus' compelled a complete devotion to keeping His commandment on spreading His teachings and His truth, as St Paul in captivity in Rome so aptly exemplifies. 'Following Jesus' involved a complete trust in Him, a trust succinctly verbalised by Cardinal Newman as "Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perpliexity, my perplexity may serve Him; He does nothing in vain ... He may take away my friends. He may throw me among strangers. (How true for Paul in Rome!). He may ... hide my future from me - still He knows what He is about."

It was Peter and Paul's understanding of this trust, this commitment to service of God that enabled them to carry on in their most desolate hours of trials, persecution and imprionment. This was how they understood "You are to follow me."

Lord, therefore I will trust in You for You know what You are about. Amen.

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
Elaboration

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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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