Daily Readings, Ho̔milíes, and Prayers - 04월/05日/2022ياش

Peace and All Good!

Today is the 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐨𝐟 𝐒𝐚𝐢𝐧𝐭 𝐕𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐅𝐞𝐫𝐫𝐞𝐫, 𝐅𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐫, 𝐋𝐨𝐠𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐧, 𝐌𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐚𝐫𝐲, 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐞𝐫, 𝐎𝐫𝐝𝐨 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐞𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫𝐮𝐦

At age seventeen, he joined the Ordo Praedicatorum (the Order of Preachers, OP, or the Dominicans). He is Valencian and was successful in converting around twenty-five thousand Jews, and thousands more Moors. He continued to Brittany where he died in Vannes in April 5, 1419. 𝘍𝘳𝘰𝘮 𝘜𝘯𝘪𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘴𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘴

In the name of the Father, ✠
and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit,
𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻.

𝐓𝐨𝐝𝐚𝐲'𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 is from the Book of 𝕷𝖆𝖒𝖊𝖓𝖙𝖆𝖙𝖎𝖔𝖓𝖘 1:1-11

CHAPTER 1

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗗𝗲𝘀𝗼𝗹𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗲𝗿𝘂𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗺
1 How solitary sits the city,
once filled with people.
She who was great among the nations
is now like a widow.
Once a princess among the provinces,
now a toiling slave.

2 She weeps incessantly in the night,
her cheeks damp with tears.
She has no one to comfort her
from all her lovers;
Her friends have all betrayed her,
and become her enemies.

3 Judah has gone into exile,
after oppression and harsh labor;
She dwells among the nations,
yet finds no rest:
All her pursuers overtake her
in the narrow straits.

4 The roads to Zion mourn,
empty of pilgrims to her feasts.
All her gateways are desolate,
her priests groan,
Her young women grieve;
her lot is bitter.

5 Her foes have come out on top,
her enemies are secure;
Because the Lord has afflicted her
for her many rebellions.
Her children have gone away,
captive before the foe.

6 From daughter Zion has gone
all her glory:
Her princes have become like rams
that find no pasture.
They have gone off exhausted
before their pursuers.

7 Jerusalem remembers
in days of wretched homelessness,
All the precious things she once had
in days gone by.
But when her people fell into the hands of the foe,
and she had no help,
Her foes looked on and laughed
at her collapse.

8 Jerusalem has sinned grievously,
therefore she has become a mockery;
Those who honored her now demean her,
for they saw her nakedness;
She herself groans out loud,
and turns away.

9 Her uncleanness is on her skirt;
she has no thought of her future.
Her downfall is astonishing,
with no one to comfort her.
“Look, O Lord, at my misery;
how the enemy triumphs!”

10 The foe stretched out his hands
to all her precious things;
She has seen the nations
enter her sanctuary,
Those you forbade to come
into your assembly.

11 All her people groan,
searching for bread;
They give their precious things for food,
to retain the breath of life.

𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: she has no thought of her future.

Jerusalem is known to be the daughter, and the Father is God. I have explained this before, on the sixth day last week. And here is the continuation. Something a father, or any parent fears is to have no future for their child. That is why the father is restless because of his love for his daughter. This text happened in history, when Jerusalem and all the Jews were exiled into Babylon.

The writer was great when they used the term lover. This was because the Israelites went into a spree with the Edomites, Moabites the other pagans that worship other gods. God is a jealous god that is why He is angry at those who partake in idolatry. At God's wrath He spoke that he would not listen to them in their need. Retribution for sin is harder than not sinning. I fear what will happen to me because Israel had suffered a lot.

God is righteous and just. He will do everything accordingly. But above righteousness and justice, God is a man of Love, Compassion, Mercy. I watched a video about the greatest scandal of the Holy Bible and Christianity. It is God's divine mercy and love. When we do good things, it is repaid with good things. But with God, a loving Father to His children; good thing, bad thing, or nothing, we receive God's love whatever it may be. It is a good thing to think about.

But we take it wrongly and continue on our bad habits. So I repeat this again, at the very least, out of gratitude of His Love, when will we follow Him? We are given what is good, in moral conscience should we repay it with our worst? I am guilty of this, but it is not something to be ashamed of. The most important is changing. This is how we can be Christians, by changing our ways, living in the spirit, accepting the cross of living in the world, and loving. Above all we are loving people.

𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐲𝐞𝐫: «13 So faith, hope, love remain, these three; but the greatest of these is love.» 1 Corinthians 13:13

𝐋𝐞𝐭 𝐮𝐬 𝐏𝐫𝐚𝐲.

God may Your love reign above all like it did in the death of Your Son. Through the Death of Your Son on the cross may we die also from our sins and leave them. Through the resurrection of Jesus Christ may we rejoice in the coming, and the living, and the dying through which the Hope of what You have promised has now come into the fullness and perfection. Amen.

In the name of the Father, ✠
and of the Son,
and of the Holy Spirit,
𝗔𝗺𝗲𝗻.

℟. Thanks be to God!