Keep holy the sabbath.

Sisters and brothers in Christ, do we keep holy the sabbath? Do we go to Mass and give our Lord and our God praise and thanksgiving for the precious gift of our life - with its imperfections and all? Or do we allow the idols in our lives to distract us and lead us away from our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ?

It would seem that way as more and more people have stopped going to Mass or their places of worship on Sundays. Shunning the Lord and telling him "No" when he asks: "could you not be with me for an hour?" In doing so, they have forgotten who they are - beloved sons and daughters of the Father - and their true purpose in life - to love the Lord their God with all their heart, soul, and mind.

Therefore, over the next three years of the Eucharistic Revival in the U.S., it is up to us - the "remnant" - to share this message from the Lord with our sisters and brothers, who have strayed from their Father in heaven, that they may come back to Him:

"Thus says the LORD: I have heard your prayer and seen your tears. I will heal you. . ."

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Gospel of the Day

Jesus was going through a field of grain on the sabbath. His disciples were hungry and began to pick the heads of grain and eat them. When the Pharisees saw this, they said to him, “See, your disciples are doing what is unlawful to do on the sabbath.” He said to the them, “Have you not read what David did when he and his companions were hungry, how he went into the house of God and ate the bread of offering, which neither he nor his companions but only the priests could lawfully eat? Or have you not read in the law that on the sabbath the priests serving in the temple violate the sabbath and are innocent? I say to you, something greater than the temple is here. If you knew what this meant, I desire mercy, not sacrifice, you would not have condemned these innocent men. For the Son of Man is Lord of the sabbath.”