MY daily reflection and prayer:
Saturday, July 2, 2016
Thirtienth Week in Ordinary Time
The Prayer Day for Priests
Dear my friends,
Here is the Gospel for us today according to St. Matthew 9:14-17
The disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but your disciples do not fast?” And Jesus said to them, “The wedding guests cannot mourn as long as the bridegroom is with them, can they? The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast. No one sews a piece of unshrunk cloth on an old cloak, for the patch pulls away from the cloak, and a worse tear is made. Neither is new wine put into old wineskins; otherwise, the skins burst, and the wine is spilled, and the skins are destroyed; but new wine is put into fresh wineskins, and so both are preserved.”
This is the Gospel of the Lord. Praise to you Lord Jesus Christ.
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IN the Gospel reading today, Jesus Christ teaches us on the meaning of true fasting. It is not about creating hunger for food but for God. So fasting has its place in the life of holiness.
We fast for we want to feel more intensely a spiritual hunger for God. It is the practice of self-denial, that we will find the spiritual receptivity of a new life in him.
We fast not only during the lent season but also in all times we need to seek the holiness. It is oriented to the ultimate end of the spiritual life that is our union with Jesus Christ.
Perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist is a way for spiritually fasting so that we can more feel intensely a spiritual hunger for God. It leads us to live God’s will and his presence in a more loving manner. Are we always hunger for God? Do we seek him only in all things we did?
Let’s pray: Lord Jesus Christ, self-denial in order to do your will becomes a participation in your redemption. We want to be your closest friends by sharing your sorrow. Help us to be ready to live union with you by embracing periodic acts of self-denial in the Perpetual Adoration of the Eucharist movement now and forever. Amen.
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