Catholic Mass Readings – Today – New Jerusalem Bible

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   Romeo

   February 9, 2025

   Notes on Luke 5:1‐11:
   1. When God asks us to get out of our comfort zones, trust Him. The results would be great.
   2. God provides us with more than what we need, and in proportion to our faith in Him.

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   Romeo

   January 29, 2025

   Insights on today’s Gospel: Mark 4: 1- 20 (Parable of the Sower and the Seed)
   There are three obstacles to God’s work in our lives:
   1. Our mind- our Ego, beliefs and unbeliefs
   2. Our priorities in life
   3. Our attachments to material things and our relationships.
   God works in an open mind and an open heart. Be like a child.

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   Romeo

   January 20, 2025

   Comments on Mark 2:18‐22:
   “No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak; if he does, the patch pulls away from it, the new from the old, and the tear gets worse. And nobody puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the wine will burst the skins, and the wine is lost and the skins too. No! New wine, fresh skins!’

   Comments: Our mind is like the old cloak, and the old wineskin….the word of God is like the new cloth and the new wine. For the word of God to work in our life, we need a mind change, i.e. changing our old ways of thinking which are not compatible with God’s word. This is “to be born again”. After this, we need to accept God’s word and live God’s word…”patching the new cloth to a renewed cloak, and putting new wine to a new wine skin”.
   “Sewing a new cloth into an old cloak and putting new wine to an old wineskin” is like living a life of hypocrisy like the Pharisees. We are called by God to live a life of integrity…i.e. our values and mindset are consistent with our words and deeds.

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   Romeo

   January 18, 2025

   Notes on Mark 2:13‐17:
   1. Jesus is God in human form, socializing with common people of low stature, being tempted, but not giving in to temptations.
   2. To follow Jesus, we should be “in the world, but not of the world”, doing our everyday tasks and responsibilities, but doing good and not giving in to everyday temptations, to positively influence (inspire) and help people we come into contact with, through our words and deeds, and through “social media”.

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   Romeo

   January 17, 2025

   Notes on Healing based on Mark 2:1‐12:
   1. To be healed is to find all possible means to be healed (it’s like a “Mission Impossible” thing).
   2. To be healed we have to connect to God who is within us.
   3. Jesus has the power to forgive our sins.
   3. Our Healing = repentance for our sins = forgiveness of our sins
   4. The cause and effect thing is: Cause- Sin; Effect: Disease and Death.
   5. On a physical side, we sin if we consume food and drinks that are not good for our health. On the Mind-side, we sin through our wrong ways of thinking. On our soul-side, we sin if we do not love God, love ourselves and love others as we love ourselves.

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