Maoni yangu binafsi juu ya masuala mbalimbali yanayoendelea duniani

Maoni yangu binafsi juu ya masuala mbalimbali yanayoendelea duniani

Morning Reflection (QT)
Introduction
This psalm is a song written for use on the Sabbath, the day for rest and worship (Exodus 20:8-11; Deuteronomy 5:12-15). It celebrates God’s goodness and righteousness.
Reflection
This psalm, in addition to being a song of praise, is also written in the wisdom tradition. Reread verses 5-8 and 12-15. How are the wicked described? What is their fate? How are the righteous described? What does it mean to “flourish”? What does verse 15 affirm? Many of the psalms were intended to be sung as part of the worship in the Temple in Jerusalem. How are psalms used in your community of faith?
Pray
Most High God, I proclaim your constant love every morning and your faithfulness every night. With you, O God, I flourish like a palm tree, rooted in you and growing strong in faith. I sing your praises, and with a thankful heart I declare your goodness.

In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
Psalms 92
Psalms 92:1
A psalm. A sabbath song.
Psalms 92:2
It is good to give thanks to the LORD, to sing praise to your name, Most High,
Psalms 92:3
To proclaim your love at daybreak, your faithfulness in the night,
Psalms 92:4
With the ten-stringed harp, with melody upon the lyre.
Psalms 92:5
For you make me jubilant, LORD, by your deeds; at the works of your hands I shout for joy.
Psalms 92:6
How great are your works, LORD! How profound your designs!
Psalms 92:7
A senseless person cannot know this; a fool cannot comprehend.
Psalms 92:8
Though the wicked flourish like grass and all sinners thrive, They are destined for eternal destruction;
Psalms 92:9
but you, LORD, are forever on high.
Psalms 92:10
Indeed your enemies, LORD, indeed your enemies shall perish; all sinners shall be scattered.
Psalms 92:11
You have given me the strength of a wild ox; you have poured rich oil upon me.
Psalms 92:12
My eyes look with glee on my wicked enemies; my ears shall hear what happens to my wicked foes.
Psalms 92:13
The just shall flourish like the palm tree, shall grow like a cedar of Lebanon.
Psalms 92:14
Planted in the house of the LORD, they shall flourish in the courts of our God.
Psalms 92:15
They shall bear fruit even in old age, they will stay fresh and green,

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Morning Prayer
God, I pray for your guidance as I go about my day.

I ask that you would lead me on the path that you have set before me, and that I would be able to hear your voice and follow your direction. I pray that I would be open to the opportunities that you place before me, and that I would be able to use my gifts and talents to serve others. I trust in your guidance and provision, and I pray that I would be able to follow your lead throughout the day.

In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
Bible Verses to Read:
Joshua 1:9
I command you: be strong and steadfast! Do not fear nor be dismayed, for the LORD, your God, is with you wherever you go.

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Daily Mass
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 33:10-11, 12-13, 14-15
R. (12)
Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
The LORD brings to nought the plans of nations;
he foils the designs of peoples.
But the plan of the LORD stands forever;
the design of his heart, through all generations.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.
From heaven the LORD looks down;
he sees all mankind.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
From his fixed throne he beholds
all who dwell on the earth,
He who fashioned the heart of each,
he who knows all their works.
R. Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.
Alleluia
Jn 15:15b
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
I call you my friends, says the Lord,
for I have made known to you all that the Father has told me.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Reading I
Gn 11:1-9
Genesis 11:1
The whole world had the same language and the same words.
Genesis 11:2
When they were migrating from the east, they came to a valley in the land of Shinar and settled there.
Genesis 11:3
They said to one another, “Come, let us mold bricks and harden them with fire.” They used bricks for stone, and bitumen for mortar.
Genesis 11:4
Then they said, “Come, let us build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the sky, and so make a name for ourselves; otherwise we shall be scattered all over the earth.”
Genesis 11:5
The LORD came down to see the city and the tower that the people had built.
Genesis 11:6
Then the LORD said: If now, while they are one people and all have the same language, they have started to do this, nothing they presume to do will be out of their reach.
Genesis 11:7
Come, let us go down and there confuse their language, so that no one will understand the speech of another.
Genesis 11:8
So the LORD scattered them from there over all the earth, and they stopped building the city.
Genesis 11:9
That is why it was called Babel, because there the LORD confused the speech of all the world. From there the LORD scattered them over all the earth.
Gospel
Mk 8:34—9:1
Mark 8:34
He summoned the crowd with his disciples and said to them, “Whoever wishes to come after me must deny himself, take up his cross, and follow me.
Mark 8:35
For whoever wishes to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake and that of the gospel will save it.
Mark 8:36
What profit is there for one to gain the whole world and forfeit his life?
Mark 8:37
What could one give in exchange for his life?
Mark 8:38
Whoever is ashamed of me and of my words in this faithless and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels.”
Mark 9:1
He also said to them, “Amen, I say to you, there are some standing here who will not taste death until they see that the kingdom of God has come in power.”

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Sat, Feb 17, 2024
Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Reading 1 - Is 58:9b-14

Thus says the LORD:
If you remove from your midst oppression,
false accusation and malicious speech;
If you bestow your bread on the hungry
and satisfy the afflicted;
Then light shall rise for you in the darkness,
and the gloom shall become for you like midday;
Then the LORD will guide you always
and give you plenty even on the parched land.
He will renew your strength,
and you shall be like a watered garden,
like a spring whose water never fails.
The ancient ruins shall be rebuilt for your sake,
and the foundations from ages past you shall raise up;
“Repairer of the breach,” they shall call you,
“Restorer of ruined homesteads.”

If you hold back your foot on the sabbath
from following your own pursuits on my holy day;
If you call the sabbath a delight,
and the LORD’s holy day honorable;
If you honor it by not following your ways,
seeking your own interests, or speaking with malice—
Then you shall delight in the LORD,
and I will make you ride on the heights of the earth;
I will nourish you with the heritage of Jacob, your father,
for the mouth of the LORD has spoken.



Responsorial Psalm - PS 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

R. (11ab) Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.
Incline your ear, O LORD; answer me,
for I am afflicted and poor.
Keep my life, for I am devoted to you;
save your servant who trusts in you.
You are my God.
R. Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.
Have mercy on me, O Lord,
for to you I call all the day.
Gladden the soul of your servant,
for to you, O Lord, I lift up my soul.
R. Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.
For you, O Lord, are good and forgiving,
abounding in kindness to all who call upon you.
Hearken, O LORD, to my prayer
and attend to the sound of my pleading.
R. Teach me your way, O Lord, that I may walk in your truth.



Verse Before the Gospel - Ez 33:11

I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked man, says the Lord,
but rather in his conversion, that he may live.



Gospel - Lk 5:27-32

Jesus saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at the customs post.
He said to him, “Follow me.”
And leaving everything behind, he got up and followed him.
Then Levi gave a great banquet for him in his house,
and a large crowd of tax collectors
and others were at table with them.
The Pharisees and their scribes complained to his disciples, saying,
“Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”
Jesus said to them in reply,
“Those who are healthy do not need a physician, but the sick do.
I have not come to call the righteous to repentance but sinners.”



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Sun, Feb 18, 2024
First Sunday of Lent

Reading 1 - Gn 9:8-15

God said to Noah and to his sons with him:
"See, I am now establishing my covenant with you
and your descendants after you
and with every living creature that was with you:
all the birds, and the various tame and wild animals
that were with you and came out of the ark.
I will establish my covenant with you,
that never again shall all bodily creatures be destroyed
by the waters of a flood;
there shall not be another flood to devastate the earth."
God added:
"This is the sign that I am giving for all ages to come,
of the covenant between me and you
and every living creature with you:
I set my bow in the clouds to serve as a sign
of the covenant between me and the earth.
When I bring clouds over the earth,
and the bow appears in the clouds,
I will recall the covenant I have made
between me and you and all living beings,
so that the waters shall never again become a flood
to destroy all mortal beings."



Responsorial Psalm - Ps 25:4-5, 6-7, 8-9.

R. (cf. 10) Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.
Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;
teach me your paths,
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my savior.
R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.
Remember that your compassion, O LORD,
and your love are from of old.
In your kindness remember me,
because of your goodness, O LORD.
R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.
Good and upright is the LORD,
thus he shows sinners the way.
He guides the humble to justice,
and he teaches the humble his way.
R. Your ways, O Lord, are love and truth to those who keep your covenant.



Reading 2 - 1 Pt 3:18-22

Beloved:
Christ suffered for sins once,
the righteous for the sake of the unrighteous,
that he might lead you to God.
Put to death in the flesh,
he was brought to life in the Spirit.
In it he also went to preach to the spirits in prison,
who had once been disobedient
while God patiently waited in the days of Noah
during the building of the ark,
in which a few persons, eight in all,
were saved through water.
This prefigured baptism, which saves you now.
It is not a removal of dirt from the body
but an appeal to God for a clear conscience,
through the resurrection of Jesus Christ,
who has gone into heaven
and is at the right hand of God,
with angels, authorities, and powers subject to him.



Verse Before the Gospel - Mt 4:4b

One does not live on bread alone,
but on every word that comes forth from the mouth of God.



Gospel - Mk 1:12-15

The Spirit drove Jesus out into the desert,
and he remained in the desert for forty days,
tempted by Satan.
He was among wild beasts,
and the angels ministered to him.

After John had been arrested,
Jesus came to Galilee proclaiming the gospel of God:
"This is the time of fulfillment.
The kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent, and believe in the gospel."



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Daily Mass
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 145:2-3, 4-5, 10-11
R. (see 1)
I will praise your name for ever, Lord.
Every day will I bless you,
and I will praise your name forever and ever.
Great is the LORD and highly to be praised;
his greatness is unsearchable.
R. I will praise your name for ever, Lord.
Generation after generation praises your works
and proclaims your might.
They speak of the splendor of your glorious majesty
and tell of your wondrous works.
R. I will praise your name for ever, Lord.
Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
Let them discourse of the glory of your Kingdom
and speak of your might.
R. I will praise your name for ever, Lord.
Alleluia
Mk 9:6
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
The heavens were opened and the voice of the Father thundered:
This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Reading I
Heb 11:1-7
Hebrews 11:1
Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not seen.
Hebrews 11:2
Because of it the ancients were well attested.
Hebrews 11:3
By faith we understand that the universe was ordered by the word of God, so that what is visible came into being through the invisible.
Hebrews 11:4
By faith Abel offered to God a sacrifice greater than Cain’s. Through this he was attested to be righteous, God bearing witness to his gifts, and through this, though dead, he still speaks.
Hebrews 11:5
By faith Enoch was taken up so that he should not see death, and “he was found no more because God had taken him.” Before he was taken up, he was attested to have pleased God.
Hebrews 11:6
But without faith it is impossible to please him, for anyone who approaches God must believe that he exists and that he rewards those who seek him.
Hebrews 11:7
By faith Noah, warned about what was not yet seen, with reverence built an ark for the salvation of his household. Through this he condemned the world and inherited the righteousness that comes through faith.
Gospel
Mk 9:2-13
Mark 9:2
After six days Jesus took Peter, James, and John and led them up a high mountain apart by themselves. And he was transfigured before them,
Mark 9:3
and his clothes became dazzling white, such as no fuller on earth could bleach them.
Mark 9:4
Then Elijah appeared to them along with Moses, and they were conversing with Jesus.
Mark 9:5
Then Peter said to Jesus in reply, “Rabbi, it is good that we are here! Let us make three tents: one for you, one for Moses, and one for Elijah.”
Mark 9:6
He hardly knew what to say, they were so terrified.
Mark 9:7
Then a cloud came, casting a shadow over them; then from the cloud came a voice, “This is my beloved Son. Listen to him.”
Mark 9:8
Suddenly, looking around, they no longer saw anyone but Jesus alone with them.
Mark 9:9
As they were coming down from the mountain, he charged them not to relate what they had seen to anyone, except when the Son of Man had risen from the dead.
Mark 9:10
So they kept the matter to themselves, questioning what rising from the dead meant.
Mark 9:11
Then they asked him, “Why do the scribes say that Elijah must come first?”
Mark 9:12
He told them, “Elijah will indeed come first and restore all things, yet how is it written regarding the Son of Man that he must suffer greatly and be treated with contempt?
Mark 9:13
But I tell you that Elijah has come and they did to him whatever they pleased, as it is written of him.”

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Evening Reflection (QT)
Introduction
Today’s reading includes a description of the person and work of Christ and concludes with Paul’s exhortation to remain faithful.
Reflection
Verses 15-20 are probably derived from an early Christian hymn. What do these verses say about Jesus? (You may wish to compare verses 15 and 16 with John 1:1-3.) According to verse 22, what has God done? What does Paul admonish the Colossians to do (verse 23)? Is this verse relevant for us today as well?
Pray
Lord God, I thank and praise you that you made me your friend and have brought me into your presence. Help me to remain faithful and not stray from your teachings. Guide me each day in the way of your truth.

In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
Colossians 1:15-23
Colossians 1:15
He is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of all creation.
Colossians 1:16
For in him were created all things in heaven and on earth, the visible and the invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or powers; all things were created through him and for him.
Colossians 1:17
He is before all things, and in him all things hold together.
Colossians 1:18
He is the head of the body, the church. He is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things he himself might be preeminent.
Colossians 1:19
For in him all the fullness was pleased to dwell,
Colossians 1:20
and through him to reconcile all things for him, making peace by the blood of his cross [through him], whether those on earth or those in heaven.
Colossians 1:21
And you who once were alienated and hostile in mind because of evil deeds
Colossians 1:22
he has now reconciled in his fleshly body through his death, to present you holy, without blemish, and irreproachable before him,
Colossians 1:23
provided that you persevere in the faith, firmly grounded, stable, and not shifting from the hope of the gospel that you heard, which has been preached to every creature under heaven, of which I, Paul, am a minister.

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Morning Prayer
Heavenly Father, I pray for your courage as I face the challenges of this day.

I ask that you would help me to be brave in the face of adversity, and that you would give me the strength to overcome any obstacles that come my way. I pray that I would trust in your power and presence, and that I would be able to step out in faith even when I feel afraid. I trust in your courage and provision, and I pray that I would experience that courage in a powerful way today.

In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.
Bible Verses to Read:
Philippians 4:13
I have the strength for everything through him who empowers me.

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Daily Mass
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 93:1ab, 1cd-2, 5
R. (1a)
The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty.
The LORD is king, in splendor robed;
robed is the LORD and girt about with strength.
R.
The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty.
And he has made the world firm,
not to be moved.
Your throne stands firm from of old;
from everlasting you are, O LORD.
R.
The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty.
Your decrees are worthy of trust indeed:
holiness befits your house,
O LORD, for length of days.
R.
The Lord is king; he is robed in majesty.
Alleluia
2 Tm 1:10
R. Alleluia, alleluia.
Our Savior Jesus Christ has destroyed death
and brought life to light through the Gospel.
R.
Alleluia, alleluia.
Reading I
Sir 1:1-10
Sirach 1:1
All wisdom is from the Lord and remains with him forever.
Sirach 1:2
The sands of the sea, the drops of rain, the days of eternity—who can count them?
Sirach 1:3
Heaven’s height, earth’s extent, the abyss and wisdom—who can explore them?
Sirach 1:4
Before all other things wisdom was created; and prudent understanding, from eternity.
Sirach 1:6
The root of wisdom—to whom has it been revealed? Her subtleties—who knows them?
Sirach 1:8
There is but one, wise and truly awesome, seated upon his throne—the Lord.
Sirach 1:9
It is he who created her, saw her and measured her, Poured her forth upon all his works,
Sirach 1:10
upon every living thing according to his bounty, lavished her upon those who love him.
Gospel
Mk 9:14-29
Mark 9:14
When they came to the disciples, they saw a large crowd around them and scribes arguing with them.
Mark 9:15
Immediately on seeing him, the whole crowd was utterly amazed. They ran up to him and greeted him.
Mark 9:16
He asked them, “What are you arguing about with them?”
Mark 9:17
Someone from the crowd answered him, “Teacher, I have brought to you my son possessed by a mute spirit.
Mark 9:18
Wherever it seizes him, it throws him down; he foams at the mouth, grinds his teeth, and becomes rigid. I asked your disciples to drive it out, but they were unable to do so.”
Mark 9:19
He said to them in reply, “O faithless generation, how long will I be with you? How long will I endure you? Bring him to me.”
Mark 9:20
They brought the boy to him. And when he saw him, the spirit immediately threw the boy into convulsions. As he fell to the ground, he began to roll around and foam at the mouth.
Mark 9:21
Then he questioned his father, “How long has this been happening to him?” He replied, “Since childhood.
Mark 9:22
It has often thrown him into fire and into water to kill him. But if you can do anything, have compassion on us and help us.”
Mark 9:23
Jesus said to him, “‘If you can!’ Everything is possible to one who has faith.”
Mark 9:24
Then the boy’s father cried out, “I do believe, help my unbelief!”
Mark 9:25
Jesus, on seeing a crowd rapidly gathering, rebuked the unclean spirit and said to it, “Mute and deaf spirit, I command you: come out of him and never enter him again!”
Mark 9:26
Shouting and throwing the boy into convulsions, it came out. He became like a corpse, which caused many to say, “He is dead!”
Mark 9:27
But Jesus took him by the hand, raised him, and he stood up.
Mark 9:28
When he entered the house, his disciples asked him in private, “Why could we not drive it out?”
Mark 9:29
He said to them, “This kind can only come out through prayer.”

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