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  February 17 Meditation: God’s Love is His Law! Happy are those whom you discipline, O Lord, and whom you teach out of your law (Ps 94:12). A father who disciplines a child teaches gives new life to his children. Happy are the children who are disciplined by their father. One needs a strict father who teaches what is right and wrong. God is loving Father who gives us loving laws to follow.  Those who love their father love to obey the laws taught by their father. If we love God, then we keep God's law.  Are we aware of the Law of God? Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb

February 16 Meditation: Be Humble!  Before I was humbled, I went astray, but now I keep your Word (Ps 119:67). If someone smile because of your goodness and sweetness be humble and thank God. Learn to be humble. Accept and acknowledge that we have gone astray and accept we have sinned, failed and broken. Repent and aske pardon and long for God’s mercy and human acceptance and forgiveness. Mean what you say! Say what you mean and let there be no ambiguity in words and actions. Do we keep God’s Word? Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb

  February 12 Meditation: Give Justice! Happy are those who observe justice, who do righteousness at all times Ps 106:3). In every religion, every civilization, every culture has one way or the other way of confessing sins for overcoming guilt and be forgiven by God and the persons and people concerned. The practice in the Catholic Church has the Sacrament of confession in which sins are forgiven, and reconciliation is made possible with God and others to be set free internally and externally. Do we set things right in our lives? Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb

  February 11 Meditation: Trust is Life! Commit your way to the LORD; trust in him, and he will act (Ps 37:5). Those who are commit to the Lord will be blessed. The Lord is faithful to generation of people and to each individual as community and as an individual. He will act for good therefore one must have trust in God. Life is all about trust in God and others. Do we trust God? Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb

  February 10 Meditation: Church is a Mother! Happy are those who live in your house (Ps 84:4). Happy are those who live in their father’s house. Everyone longs to be at home in the company of the loved.   God is Father and creator of the universe; we are his children; we are happy to live in his home. God dwells in the heaven and on earth in the Churches we build for him. Church is a mother who takes care of her children. Happy are those who live in love in communion with God and communion with community of faithful who are is a living home. Do we long to live in communion with God and community? Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb

  February 9 Meditation: God is Available to Us! Rise up, O Lord, and go to your resting place, you and the ark of your might.   Let your priests be clothed with righteousness, and let your faithful shout for joy (Ps 132: 8-9). God’s presence was with Israel in the ark of the covenant, and he led them in ages. God’s presence is there with us always and particularly in the Tabernacles of the Churches. Priests and people love and adore you, Lord. Do we in trust in God’s constant presence?   Fr Putti Anthaiah Sdb