GOSPEL - Mt 12:38-42
Some of the scribes and Pharisees said to Jesus, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.” He said to them in reply, “An evil and unfaithful generation seeks a sign, but no sign will be given it except the sign of Jonah the prophet. Just as Jonah was in the belly of the whale three days and three nights, so will the Son of Man be in the heart of the earth three days and three nights. At the judgment, the men of Nineveh will arise with this generation and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and there is something greater than Jonah here. At the judgment the queen of the south will arise with this generation and condemn it, because she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and there is something greater than Solomon here.”
My God, I believe, I adore, I trust, and I love Thee! I beg pardon for all those who do not believe, do not adore, do not trust, and do not love Thee.
Monday is dedicated to the Holy Spirit & the Holy Souls in Purgatory
STUDY - An excerpt from Link to Liturgy Lesson Communion with Jesus
To be in communion with Christ means that we follow Him. “Henceforth time has only one purpose: to get man, individually and collectively, into step on his journey toward eternity.” [1]
To be in communion with Jesus also means to convert away from our old way of life and be united with Jesus. “The first condition is conversion, the profound change in our life which requires, above all, a struggle against sin, the denial of everything that makes us deviate from the love and the law of God. This is a conversion like that which God had called for at Nineveh through Jonah and which the Ninevites had carried out for ‘they turned from their evil way’ (Jon 3:10). But abstaining from sin is only the first phase of the conversion preached by Jesus; a second condition is also required which is clearly expressed in Mark’s ‘believe in the Gospel.’ The Christian must adhere to the Gospel in a positive way with faith made alive by love which is not satisfied with accepting the Gospel only in theory, but translates it into life, and puts it into practice.” [2]
To be in communion with Christ means that we follow Him. “Henceforth time has only one purpose: to get man, individually and collectively, into step on his journey toward eternity.” [1]
To be in communion with Jesus also means to convert away from our old way of life and be united with Jesus. “The first condition is conversion, the profound change in our life which requires, above all, a struggle against sin, the denial of everything that makes us deviate from the love and the law of God. This is a conversion like that which God had called for at Nineveh through Jonah and which the Ninevites had carried out for ‘they turned from their evil way’ (Jon 3:10). But abstaining from sin is only the first phase of the conversion preached by Jesus; a second condition is also required which is clearly expressed in Mark’s ‘believe in the Gospel.’ The Christian must adhere to the Gospel in a positive way with faith made alive by love which is not satisfied with accepting the Gospel only in theory, but translates it into life, and puts it into practice.” [2]
