February
11, 2016
Thursday
after Ash Wednesday
Saint
of the Day: Saint Severinus of Agaunum, Abbot (+507)
Reading 1
15Moses
said to the people: “Today
I have set before you life
and prosperity, death and doom. 16If
you obey the commandments of the LORD, your God, which
I enjoin on you today, loving Him, and walking in His ways, and
keeping His commandments, statutes and decrees, you
will live and grow numerous, and
the LORD, your God, will
bless you in the land you are entering to occupy.
17If,
however, you turn away your hearts and will not listen, but
are led astray and adore and serve other gods, 18I
tell you now that you will certainly perish; you
will not have a long life on
the land that you are crossing the Jordan to enter and occupy.
19I
call heaven and earth today to witness against you: I
have set before you life and death, the
blessing and the curse. Choose
life, then, that
you and your descendants may live, 20by loving the LORD, your God, heeding His voice, and holding fast to him. For
that will mean life for you, a
long life for you to live on the land that the LORD swore He
would give to your fathers Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.”
Responsorial Psalm
1Blessed
the man who follows not the
counsel of the wicked Nor
walks in the way of sinners, nor
sits in the company of the insolent, 2But
delights in the law of the LORD and
meditates on His law day and night.
R.
Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
3He
is like a tree planted
near running water, That
yields its fruit in due season,
and
whose leaves never fade. Whatever
he does, prospers.
R.
Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
4Not
so the wicked, not so; they
are like chaff which the wind drives away.
6For
the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but
the way of the wicked vanishes.
R.
Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
Verse
Before The Gospel Matthew 4:17
Repent,
says the Lord;
the
Kingdom of heaven is at hand.
Gospel
22Jesus
said to His disciples: “The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected by
the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes, and be killed and on the third
day be raised.”
23Then
He said to all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself and
take up his cross daily and follow Me.[1]
24For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life
for my sake will save it. 25What
profit is there for one to gain the whole world yet lose or forfeit himself?”
Notes on Readings:
[1] Luke 9:23 - Daily: this is a Lucan
addition to a saying of Jesus, removing the saying from a context that
envisioned the imminent suffering and death of the disciple of Jesus (as does
the saying in Mark 8:34-35 to one that
focuses on the demands of daily Christian existence.
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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.