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This plan follows the Sunday liturgy:  reading + psalm + reading + gospel       From  www.simplebible.info         Previous R-R-P 

O Holy Spirit, please guide me as I read these passages for today.                     
May these passages give me hope, strength, wisdom, compassion, courage and peace for my daily life             Chinese text

Reading:  Proverbs 7-8

Wisdom says:
"The Lord created me before time began.
I was by his side, delighting him day after day.

Happy those who keep my ways.
Happy those who listen to me.

Whoever finds me finds life.
I am more precious than silver or gold."

Reflection:
I know many people in prison who wish they had been better friends with Wisdom when they were younger. The opposite of wisdom is foolishness, and foolishness can afflict us from earliest days to old age....as in the saying "there's no fool like an old fool"!   We need to keep on praying for Wisdom right through our lives

Prayer: Dear Lord, please help me to be a friend of Wisdom all my days

O God whom I praise, do not be silent,
for people are bombarding me with  words of hate.

They speak to me with lying tongues
and attack me without cause.

They repay me evil for good.
While I pray for them,  they show me hatred.

I have become an object of scorn.
Help me, Lord my God.

Reflection: 
When people send words of hate in our direction, let's do what Jesus on the Cross did: 
send words of forgiveness in the direction of Heaven. 

Prayer:  Lord, when people are unkind to me, 
please give me the grace to pray for them

He gave me this message for the church in Laodicea:

"You are neither cold nor hot. I wish you were one or the other.
But since you are lukewarm, you are cutting yourself off from me

You are rich in this word's goods, but you are spiritually poor

Listen to this message and repent"

Reflection:
Teachers are happy when they have enthusiastic students.
Nothing breaks a teacher's heart more than students who are only half-hearted, lukewarm, about their studies 

Prayer: Jesus, please don't ever let me become a lukewarm Christian

After their Last Supper, Jesus and his disciples went to a garden near the Kedron valley

Judas knew they would be there, since they had often gathered there.
Judas led the police and soldiers there to arrest Jesus

Jesus said to Judas' group "Who are you looking for?" They replied "Jesus the Nazarene".  Jesus said "I am the one you are looking for. Let these other men go free"

The group then arrested Jesus and bound him. They took him to the religious leaders

Reflection: 
Getting arrested and being held in detention, even for a few hours, is not a very nice experience. Happened to me in China in November 2008. Most unpleasant....especially if, as in Jesus' case, you know you're going to be executed the next day. Must have been frightening. Chilling.

Prayer: Jesus, please bless everyone who is arrested today, in every country