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Going deeper with the Word: Fr. Otto Week of June 28th:

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What can you do on your ride or walk on your way to Mass to better prepare for Mass?

When you sit down, are you looking at what Mrs. McGillicuty is wearing or looking at the Missal? How can you better use the moments before Mass to get ready for Mass?

If you ever stood against the wall at a junior high dance, it is probably something you are not proud of. Can you better participate in Mass by signing, by opening up the Mass book, opening your mouth? Singing is praying twice.

Read through this amazing paragraph of the Catechism of the Catholic Church (CCC)

CCC Paragraph 221 But St. John goes even further when he affirms that “God is Love”. God’s very being is love. By sending his only Son and the Spirit of Love in the fullness of time, God has revealed his innermost secret. God himself is an eternal exchange of love, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, and he has destined us to share in that exchange.

1 John 4:8,16 https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=1%20John%204%3A8-16&version=NIV

We know our origin and we our destiny and we know Gods inner most secret, tell someone!

CCC Paragraph 260 The ultimate end of the whole divine economy is the entry of God’s creatures into the perfect unity of the Blessed Trinity. But even now we are called to be a dwelling for the Most Holy Trinity: “If a man loves me”, says the Lord, “he will keep my word, and my Father will love him, and we will come to him, and make our home with him”.

Jn 14:23 Jesus replied, “Anyone who loves me will obey my teaching. My Father will love them, and we will come to them and make our home with them.

Ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten you more deeply regarding the reality that the Holy Trinity, The Father, Son and Holy Spirit dwell within us. Ask the Holy Spirit to enlighten you more deeply regarding our incredible dignity as baptized believers. Make this prayer of Elizabeth the Trinity your own.

https://carmelitequotes.blog/2023/11/24/sabeth-prayer/

Where you are at the sign of the cross at the beginning of the Mass is at the top of a roller coaster hill. As we enter into Mass our ride can get wilder and wilder as we more and more appropriate the effect of Jesus’ life, death and resurrection which is what the Mass is all about. Read and pray over-

CCC paragraph 519: 187-190 All Christ's riches "are for every individual and are everybody's property." Christ did not live his life for himself but for us, from his Incarnation "for us men and for our salvation" to his death "for our sins" and Resurrection "for our justification". He is still "our advocate with the Father", who "always lives to make intercession" for us. He remains ever "in the presence of God on our behalf, bringing before him all that he lived and suffered for us.

187 John Paul II, RH 11 https://www.vatican.va/content/john-paul-ii/en/encyclicals/documents/hf_jp-ii_enc_04031979_redemptor-hominis.html