MATTHEW 18:12-14 (2024)

MATTHEW 18:12-14

What do you think? If a shepherd has a hundred sheep, and one of them has gone astray, does he not leave the ninety-nine on the mountains and go in search of the one that went astray? And if he finds it, truly I tell you, he rejoices over it more than over the ninety-nine that never went astray. So it is not the will of your Father in heaven that one of these little ones should be lost.

---- mine,

Every person who ever lived, lived, and will live is cared for as tenderly by God as that one sheep who strayed from the fold. Not a single soul entrusted to Me by My Father will be lost for they are given to Me by Him. You belong to the Father and all that belongs to the Father belongs to His Son. This is why I say you are Mine and I will keep you with Me, I will watch over you and care for you. I will seek you when you are lost, I will look for you until I find you and carry you back to My Father's house. And not just you, ---- my own, but also those for whom you pray with sighs and tears, and with a broken heart. You cannot desire their salvation more than My Father does, He sent Me into the world to redeem the world not condemn it. Have faith! Pray without ceasing, but pray with this confidence that in the end, they will come to the knowledge of Truth and be saved.

LUKE 7:22-23 (2024)

LUKE 7:22-23

And he answered the messengers, ‘Go and tell John what you have seen and heard: the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news brought to them. And blessed is anyone who takes no offense at me.’

---- mine,

I give you and every other disciple the same message that I gave the messengers of John when he sent them to find out if I was the one or if they were to wait for another. Having heard the reports of Me spreading through the entire region he wanted to have what he heard confirmed by Me. What about you, ---- my own? What is your experience of Me in your life? Do you speak of Me to others? Do you make known to all you meet what I have done for you and for those you love? Have you shared with others how times without number I walked with you, talked with you, carried you and your burdens, consoled you, raised you to life over and over again in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, nourished you, also times without number with My Body and Blood, and blessed you with a superabundance of blessings always? Have you shared the Good News of salvation with anyone, especially by the way you live your life?  Your life must be a megaphone announcing what God has done for you and continues to do for you and your loved ones so all who meet you encounter Me in you.