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'It was the stone rejected by the builders that became the keystone' (Mk. 12:10). In today's Gospel, once again Jesus makes use of a parable to present to the Jews about the Kingdom of God. Jesus was being rejected just as the prophets were also rejected by those who were blinded by their own prejudices. Those who rejected Jesus would have the Kingdom taken away from them and given to those who were willing to recognise and accept the Son sent by the Father.

The right to be in the Kingdom has now been given to us, to those who accept Jesus as the keystone. We live in the vineyard with the life of God as has been revealed to us by the Son sent by the Father. Therefore, our life in the world must shine with the values like that of those who live and work in the vineyard. Jesus must constantly become the keystone of our lives, the deciding norm in our personal lives, families and in society at large. Jesus reminds us that those who do not make the Son the keystone of their lives will have the Kingdom taken away from them.


Dear Lord, help me accept and make You the keystone of my life. 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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