10 Mar Sat lst Week of Lent Deut. 26:16-19 Ps. 119:1- 2, 4-5, 7- 8 Mt. 5:43-48 How To Pray With Shalom Home Page of Shalom Index of This Month        "Happy are they whose way is blameless, who walk in the way of the Lord". These words of the Psalm implicitly teach us that it is only by walking in the way of the Lord that we will lead blameless lives. These words also contain an eternal promise: if we walk in the way of the Lord, we shall certainly be blameless. We shall also rise to an even higher level than blamelessness, for we shall be blessed. God is holy and therefore we must be holy if we desire to belong to God, as we read in the Book of Leviticus on Monday. Since holiness properly belongs to God alone, we cannot attain to holiness on the basis of our own earthly wisdom or by relying on our human strength of will. We need God, we need God's wisdom and strength. God has remarkably met these needs by speaking to us in various ways, especially through the Old Testament and then through His only Son, Jesus Christ (Heb. 1:1-4). As the climax of God's revelation, Jesus is the Truth. He is the way of the Lord for us.           Lord Jesus, You have proclaimed Yourself as the Way, the Truth and the Life. Help us to walk blamelessly in the way of God as we walk in union with You towards our heavenly homeland. 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, with the committed help of all believers, the scourge of poverty may come to an end, eliminating the intolerable social and economic inequality in the world Elaboration
- END - P R A Y I N G    W I T H    T H E    C H U R C H     INTENTION : That, with the committed help of all believers, the scourge of poverty may come to an end, eliminating the intolerable social and economic inequality in the world One might also say that poverty is the negation of economic and social rights and that the poor who suffer from absolute poverty are denied the most fundamental right which is the right to life. The international community too is becoming progressively more aware of the gravity of the problem and has declared solemnly to fight and reduce extreme poverty by 2015. Besides, how can we not realise the situation growing worse in spite of the increase in available resources. The problem of unequal distribution of resources in its correct setting is an ethical one, since it is a problem of justice: the poor are in the first place victims of injustice. In the era of globalisation we can no longer tolerate a world in which the very rich live side by side with the poor, the property less who lack even the essentials with people who shamelessly waste what others desterately need. One of the more evident worrying consequences of this phenomenon is in fact the progressive increase instead of the decrease of inequalities, in both poor countries and rich countries, and between the North and South. Let us pray that the scourge of poverty may come to an end - END -