September 15, 2015
The Exaltation of the Holy Cross -
Feast
But with their patience worn out by
the journey, the people complained against God and Moses, "Why have you
brought us up from Egypt to die in this desert, where there is no food or
water? We are disgusted with this wretched food!"
In punishment the LORD sent among the
people saraph serpents, which bit the people so that many of them died. Then
the people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned in complaining against
the LORD and you. Pray the LORD to take the serpents from us."
So Moses
prayed for the people, and the LORD said
to Moses, "Make a saraph and mount it on a pole, and if anyone who has
been bitten looks at it, he will recover."
Moses accordingly made a bronze serpent and mounted it on a pole, and
whenever anyone who had been bitten by a serpent looked at the bronze serpent,
he recovered.
Attend, my people, to my teaching;
listen to the words of my mouth. I will open my mouth in a parable, unfold the
puzzling events of the past.
When he slew them, they began to seek
him; they again looked for God. They remembered that God was their rock, God
Most High, their redeemer.
But they deceived Him with their mouths, lied
to Him with their tongues. Their hearts were not constant toward Him; they were
not faithful to his covenant.
But God being compassionate forgave
their sin; He did not utterly destroy them. Time and again he turned back His
anger, unwilling to unleash all His rage.
No one has gone up to heaven except
the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted
up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that
everyone who believes in Him may have eternal life.
For God so loved the
world that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him might not
perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send His Son into the world
to condemn the world, but that the world
might be saved through Him.
Reference: The New American Bible
Reference: The New American Bible
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Dear Humanity,
I personally encourage everyone to emulate JESUS' values on LOVE, FAITH, HOPE
and CHARITY, as the humanity has been a failure; which resulted to the more than two (2) years of pandemic and its after-effects on economy, not only here in the Philippines but worldwide.
And the saddest part of it, is that, it affected the POOREST of the POOR to even extremely be more poorer, in exchange of the affluent to be more richer.
Thank you and may GOD bless you and the whole family to have an enjoyed life's journey at home, Church, schools/universities, corporate commitments, public and places of interest.