BREAD FOR YOUTH

  22nd Week Saturday in Ordinary Time Year One Col 1:21-23 Meditation   And you who were once estranged and hostile in mind, doing evil deeds, he has now reconciled[a] in his fleshly body[b] through death, so as to present you holy and blameless and irreproachable before him—provided that you continue securely established and steadfast in the faith, without shifting from the hope promised by the gospel that you heard, which has been proclaimed to every creature under heaven. I, Paul, became a servant of this gospel. Humans were lost, hostile in mind and doing evil deeds, but the Lord reconciled them through himself to God and one another. The passion, death and resurrection have brought salvation to humans. The message of Jesus' good news is proclaimed to the entire creation. It is our duty to receive the gospel and live by it faithfully to inherit the Kingdom of God. God chooses people for his service; St Paul was chosen to do the ministry of the word to the Genti...

  22nd   Week Friday in Ordinary Time Year One Col 1:15-2 Meditation All Things are Created in Him and for Him! Jesus is visible and invisible, things in heaven and earth are under his rule and authority, he is the firstborn of creation and the firstborn of the dead.    He is in the beginning and to the end.   He reconciles the universe and humanity to God. He is the ultimate and all powers on earth, under the world, and in heaven, and all obey him. He is the supreme ruler and authority. We are in his creation, and we are in him, and he is in us.   He will not abandon humans to their will and wish, but gently leads them to the right place of repose.   Blessed are those who are under His mighty hand.   He will give us peace and joy which no one can provide.   Let us go to him and submit ourselves to him. Do we confess that Jesus has ultimate authority in heaven and earth? Year Two 1 Cor 4:1-5 You have no Right to Judge...

  22nd Week Thursday in Ordinary Time Year One Col 1:9-14 Meditation For this reason, since the day we heard it, we have not ceased praying for you and asking that you may be filled with the knowledge of God’s will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, 10 so that you may lead lives worthy of the Lord, fully pleasing to him, as you bear fruit in every good work and as you grow in the knowledge of God. May you be made strong with all the strength that comes from his glorious power, and may you be prepared to endure everything with patience, while joyfully  giving thanks to the Father, who has enabled you to share in the inheritance of the saints in the light. We do pray as individuals, but the prayer as a community is also important. Individuals make the community; if the community of believers are good, there will be love, care and joy. God loves his faithful, and he wants them to be worthy of him. God is holy, and humans are weak and sinful. Humans will lack som...

  22nd Week Wednesday in Ordinary Time Year One Col 1:1-8 Meditation In our prayers for you we always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, for we have heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of love that you have for all the saints,   because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. You have heard of this hope before in the word of the truth, the gospel that has come to you. Just as it is bearing fruit and growing in the whole world, so it has been bearing fruit among yourselves from the day you heard it and truly comprehended the grace of God.   This you learned from Epaphras, our beloved fellow servant. He is a faithful minister of Christ on your[c] behalf, and he has made known to us your love in the Spirit. St Paul thanks God for the Colossians for their faith and hope in Jesus. Faith and hope are priceless gifts for a believer in Jesus. They keep them close to God and close to their Neighbours in charity and love. Faith and hope are also cultivated...

  22nd Week Tuesday in Ordinary Time Year One Meditation 1 Thess 5:1-6, 9-11 Now concerning the times and the seasons, brothers and sisters, you do not need to have anything written to you. For you yourselves know very well that the day of the Lord will come like a thief in the night. When they say, “There is peace and security,” then sudden destruction will come upon them, as labor pains come upon a pregnant woman, and there will be no escape! But you, beloved, are not in darkness, for that day to surprise you like a thief; for you are all children of light and children of the day; we are not of the night or of darkness.   So then let us not fall asleep as others do but let us keep awake and be sober; For God has destined us not for wrath but for obtaining salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us, so that whether we are awake or asleep we may live with him. Therefore encourage one another and build up each other, as indeed you are doing....