6 December 2014 Saturday of the First week of Advent Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ according to Saint Matthew 9:35-38.10:1.6-8 Jesus went around to all the towns and villages, teaching in their synagogues, proclaiming the gospel of the kingdom, and curing every disease and illness. At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity for them because they were troubled and abandoned, like sheep without a shepherd. Then he said to his disciples, The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few; so ask the master of the harvest to send out laborers for his harvest. Jesus summoned his Twelve disciples and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness. Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel. As you go, make this proclamation: The kingdom of heaven is at hand. Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons. Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give. At the sight of the crowds, his heart was moved with pity. They were lying prostrate from exhaustion Hope in Gods everlasting mercy supports us in the tumult of passions and the flood of annoyances; it is with this confidence that we hasten to the sacrament of penance where the Lord is always there, waiting for us as a Father of mercy. In front of him, of course, we are well aware of not deserving his forgiveness; but we may have no doubts as to his unlimited mercy. So let us forget our sins, as God has done with us, long time before us. And we must not come back, in thought or in confession, to sins already confessed in previous confessions. Because of our sincere repentance, God has already forgiven us once and for all. To want to go back over sins already pardoned only to be once more absolved from these, or only because we doubt whether they have been really and fully forgiven, isnt this a lack of faith in Gods goodness? If this may comfort you, you may think over the offences you committed against Gods justice, against his wisdom, his mercy, but just to shed tears of repentance and of love.
Posted on: Sat, 06 Dec 2014 03:18:35 +0000
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