Catholic Daily Readings help souls get into Heaven. Today’s Words of Jesus are not just for the Jewish men and women to whom they were spoken!
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Question 1: “What makes Catholic Daily Readings such a great blessing that many Catholics read them every day?”
Answer: “For two thousand years, Catholics have connected ourselves with God’s Words to guide our souls to Heaven. We find guidance from a few minutes of Daily Catholic Readings by linking to a source like: https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading
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Question 2: “What does Today’s Daily Reading connect?”
Answer: “It connects us with The Prophet Isaiah who joins our mind with thousands of years of God and History: ‘Thus says The Lord, Who opens a way in the sea and a path in the mighty waters, who leads out chariots and horsemen, a powerful army, till they lie prostrate together, never to rise, snuffed out and quenched like a wick.’ That connects readers with the futility of taking any Earthly Kingdom more seriously than the God Who has them come and go.”
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Question 3: “What is the next connection in Today’s Catholic Reading?
Answer: Psalm 126:1-6 connects us with what God did for those who let themselves become captives of Babylon and then be set free by His Grace! ‘When The Lord brought back the captives of Zion, we were like men dreaming’. / ‘They that sow in tears shall reap, rejoicing’ / ‘The Lord has done great things for us, we are filled with joy’. What blessed connections for our Catholic souls who have gone beyond worldly concerns to be guided by He Who Fulfilled The Prophecies!”
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Question 4: “What connection comes next?”
Answer: “St. Paul’s letter to The Philippians 3:8-4 connects us with our best way to think and live: ‘Brothers and sisters: I consider everything as a loss because of the supreme good of knowing Christ Jesus my Lord. For His sake, I have accepted the loss of all things and consider them so much rubbish.’”
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Question 5: “Are there more connections to God in Today’s Reading?”
Answer: “Today, our Verse Before The Gospel connects our mind to The Prophet Joel’s instructions to help every believer request this connecton: ‘Even now, says The Lord, return to me with your whole heart; for I am gracious and merciful.’”
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Question 6: “What concludes every Daily Catholic Connection?”
Answer: “The last Daily Reading connects the prior readings and us to Words of Jesus. Today, John 8:1-11 connects us to a woman ‘taken in the act of adultery’. When ‘the scribes and Pharisees‘ brought her to Jesus to find His punishment, Jesus connected the woman’s sins with the sins of Jewish men: ‘Let the one among you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her.’
In one sentence, Jesus connects every self-righteous person in History with God’s Love and Truth. All the Jewish men knew that Jesus had publicly shown what hypocritical, self-loving men they were because ‘in response, they went away, one by one, beginning with the elders.’”
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Question 7: “Why did the ‘elders’ leave first?”
Answer: “The ‘elders’ were the first to know they were drowning in the vanity of self-righteousness that kept them from condemning and stoning the equally ‘adulterous man’ involved in the same adulterous act! Jesus showed that institutionalized hypocrisy had taken form in centuries of self-righteous Jewish men who willfully lived the worst kind of lie to justify murdering only women who sinned.
Jesus uncovered their disgusting hypocrisy so well that the best women and men rejected the Jerusalem Establishment. They became early Catholic followers of The First Pope and Bishops who spread The Church-Creating Word of God from Jerusalem to the world: ‘And I say unto you thou art Peter and on this rock I build My Church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it. I give you the keys to The Kingdom of Heaven.’”
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Question 9: “What happened after the sanctimonious mob of self-righteous Jewish men left them, with many of them thinking, ‘We have to get rid of Jesus!'”
Answer: “He asked her: ‘Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?’ She replied, ‘No one, Sir.'” Not one person in the entire Jerusalem Establishment could argue with He Who Fulfilled The Prophecies they pretended to honor until their positions were threatened.”
Then, Jesus told every person on earth how He judges and guides those who turn to Him: ‘Neither do I condemn you. Go, and from now on do not sin any more.’”
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Today, Two Simple Rhymes! “Our Daily Readings let us know / Judgment’s coming! Don’t be slow / to live by Truths the Bible shows.”
#2: “Catholics do please God by heeding / His Wisdom in our Daily Readings: / Jesus, I trust in You.”
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