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REFLECTIONS

September 24
You created us from nothing, may we live always before you in Thanksgiving and praise.

September 25
You are a people sacred to the Lord, your God; he has chosen you from all the nations on the face of the earth to be a people peculiarly his own. (Deuteronomy 7: 6) 

September 26
For we are the temple of the living God; as God said: “I will live with them and move among them and move among them, and I will be their God and they shall be my people.” (2Corinthians 6) 

September 27
Brothers and sisters: if in Christ, any solace in love, any participation in the Spirit, any compassion and mercy, complete my joy by being of the same mind, with the same love, united in heart, thinking one thing.  Do nothing out of selfishness or out of vainglory; rather, humbly regard others as more important than yourselves, each looking out not for his own interests, but also for those of others. (Philippians 2: 1-5) 

September 28
Remain faithful to what you have learned and believed, because you know from whom you learned it, and that from infancy you have known [the] sacred scriptures, which are capable of giving you wisdom for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus. (2 Timothy 3:14) 

September 29
In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth. (John 1:1,14) 

September 30
For who is God but the Lord? Who is a rock but our God? The God who girds me with strength and makes the path safe before me.  (Psalm 18)

October 1:   “When somenone virtuous turns away from virtue to commit iniquity, and dies, it is because of the iniquity he commited that he must die.  But if he turns from the wickedness he has committed, and does what is right and just, he shall preserve his life;  since he has turned away from all the sins that he has committed, he shall surely live, he shall not die.” (Ezekiel 18: 26-28)

 October 2:   “No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the Kingdom of God.” (Luke 9:62)

 October 3:   “ For by the grace given to me not to think of himself more highly than one ought to think, but to think soberly, each according to the measure of faith that God has apportioned.  Have the same regard for one another; do not be haughty but associate with the lowly; do not be wise in your own estimation.” (Romans 12: 3, 16)

 October 4:  “Thus says the Lord: See, I am sending an angel before you, to guard you on the way and bring you to the place I have prepared.  Be attentive to him and heed his voice.  Do not rebel against him, for he will not forgive your sin.  My authority resides in him.  If you heed his voice and carry out all I tell you, I will be an enemy to your enemies and a fore to your foes.”  (Exodus: 23: 20-22)

 October 5:  “We ourselves boast of you in the churches of God regarding your endurance and faith in all your persecutions and the afflictions you endure.” (2 Thessalonians 1: 4)

 October 6:  “The Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces; The reproach from his people he will remove from the whole earth; for the Lord has spoken.” (Isaiah 25: 8)

 October 7:  “I prayed to the Lord, my God, and confessed, “Ah, Lord, great and awesome God, you who keep your merciful covenant toward those who love you and observe your commandments.  We have sinned, been wicked and done evil;  we have rebelled and departed from your commandments and your laws.  But yours, O Lord, our God, are compassion and forgiveness!”  (Daniel 9:4-5,9)

 October 8:  “Whoever listens to you listens to me.  Whoever rejects you rejects me.  And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me.” (Luke 10:13-16)

 October 9:   “ Now if you invoke as Father him who judges impartially according to each one’s works, conduct yourselves with reverence during the time of your sojourning, realizing that you were ransomed from your futile conduct, handed on by your ancestors, not with perishable things like silver or gold but with the precious blood of Christ as of a spotless unblemished lamb.” (1Peter 1:17-18)

 October 10:  “Everything created by God is good, and nothing is to be rejected when received with thanksgiving, for it is made holy by the invocation of God in prayer.”  (1 Timothy 4:4-5)

 October 11:  “Blessed are the poor in spirit; the kingdom of heaven is theirs!” (Mt 5:3)

 October 12:  “Behold, I have given you the power ‘to tread upon serpents’ and scorpions and upon the full force of the enemy and nothing will harm you. Nevertheless, do not rejoice because the spirits are subject to you, but rejoice because your names are written in heaven.”  (Luke 10: 7-8)

 October 13:  “I will never leave you until I have done what I promised you.”  (Genesis 28:15)

 October 14:  “They show that the demands of the law are written in their hearts, while their conscience also bears witness and their conflicting thoughts accuse or even defend them on the day when, according to my gospel, God will judge people’s hidden works through Christ Jesus.”  (Romans 2:15-16)

October 15:  “Everything that becomes visible is light.  Therefore, it says: ‘Awake, O sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will give you light.” (Ephesians 5:14)

October 16:  “The Spirit of God is upon me; he has anointed me. He sent me to bring good news to the poor, and to heal the broken-hearted. (Luke 4:18)

October 17:  “I, the Lord, am with you always, until the end of the world.” (Mt 28:20)

October 18:  “They shall not hunger or thirst, nor shall the scorching wind or the sun strike them; For he who pities them leads them and guides them beside springs of Water.”  (Is 49: 9b-10)

October 19:   “He guides me along the right path; he is true to his name. If I should walk in the valley of darkness no evil would I fear.”  (Psalm 23)

October 20:   “Rejoice with me because I have found my lost sheep. I tell you, in just the same way there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous people who have no need of repentance.”  (Luke 15: 7)

October 21:  “The lost I will seek out, the strayed I will bring back, the injured I will bind up, the sick I will heal, shepherding them rightly.” (Ez. 34: 16)

October 22:  “All these devoted themselves with one accord to prayer, together with some women, and Mary the mother of Jesus, and his brothers.” (Acts 1:14)

October 23:  “But when he, who from my mother’s womb had set me apart and called me through his grace, was pleased to reveal his Son to me, so that I might proclaim him to the Gentiles, I did not immediately consult flesh and blood, nor did I go up to Jerusalem to those who were Apostles before me; rather, I went into Arabia and then returned to Damascus.”  (Galatians 1: 13)

October 24:  “I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth. (Is 49:6)

October 25:  “I, the Lord, have called you for the victory of justice, I have grasped you by the hand;  I formed you, and set you as a covenant of the people, a light for the nations, to open the eyes of the blind, to bring out prisoners from confinement, and dfrom the dungeon those who live in darkness.” (Isaiah 42:6-7)

October 26:  “Holy Father, keep them in your name that you have given me, so that they may be one just as we are.  When I was given them I protected them in your name that you gave me, and I guarded them, and none of them was lost except the son of destruction, in order that the scripture might be fulfilled.”