General. God’s praise during the Eucharistic Liturgy is bound to pour forth from our hearts which are kindled with the divine love shown and renewed om the celebration of the same sacrifice which took place on Calvary. This infused love will make us go out of this Mass full of forgiveness of ourselves and all around us, bestowing upon all a ray of irradiating spiritual love.

Deuteronomy. It is the prophet’s duty to listen to the Word of God before preaching. He certainly should not speak out his own reasonings and if doubt arises in him as to whether God has ever spoken about any particular matter, then one’s heart must be obfuscated with the world’s teachings, and that prophet neither knows the true nature of God’s Word as found in the Scripture, nor how to interpret it.

Psalm 94. If we today hear God speaking to us, through life’s events or by His Word in the Scripture, let us not harden our hearts but follow His Will for us. He has created heaven and earth and He rules over all history, and we form part of the whole creation, collectively and individually, if only we deaden our will and collate it with God’s Will for us, no matter what it demands of us.

First Letter to the Corinthians. St Paul bids one and all to concentrate on the mission given to us by God and not to hold a divisive mind on the things of the world. A Christian may accomplish God’s mission, or work, by accomplishing it with a sense of duty, like that undertaken by Jesus in his mission on earth, of prayer and sacrifice, offering oneself to God in a sacrifice of love.

St Mark. The key-word to this Gospel-story is that Jesus taught with authority. All that which Jesus believed in, which really came out of His heart, was given to the people in preaching and healing with authority. Truth has to be set forth in authority, unlike the popular sub-culture which resorts to repetitivity, boisterousness and demagoguery, with the ever apparent result of vulgarity that is currently permeating society. The authority of the Word of God, as brought to us by the Church, has to be felt if only it is still felt by the prophets who speak out fearlessly the true Word of God (link to First Reading).

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