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

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

The Israelites yet again served false gods,
and once more they were oppressed,
this time by the Ammonites.

The Israelites appealed to Jephthah to help them.
Jephthah was the son of a prostitute.
His brothers had driven him from home
and would not give him a share of their father's inheritance.

Jephthah went into exile and became a famous soldier.

Jephthah agreed to help the Israelites
after they agreed to make him their future leader.

Jephthah tried to reason with the Ammonite king,
but the king refused to negotiate a peace agreement.

The spirit of the Lord then came on Jephthah
and he led the Israelites to victory over the Ammonites.

Dear Lord, may your spirit give courage to all leaders

Listen, everyone, to my teaching.
I will recount the lessons of our history.

The things  our parents have told us,
we will not hide from our children,
but will pass them on to the next generation.

We want the next generation to know 
all that the Lord has done for us in the past.

May the next generation in turn
pass on this knowledge to their own children,
so that they too will put their hope in God
and never forget all that God has done for us.

May future generations not be like our ancestors
who so often were unfaithful to God.

Even though our ancestors had seen God part the sea,
even though they had seen him provide food and water for them
in the desert, still they went on sinning.

Yet he who is full of compassion forgave and spared them.
He remembered they were only weak humans.

Eventually he brought them to the promised land
and gave a home to each of Israel's tribes.

But still they sinned by building mountain shrines
and serving idols.

Then God raised up David to be their leader. 
God called him from looking after sheep 
to be the shepherd of his people.

Lord, help us not to forget all you have done for us

You non-Jews were once without hope and without God

But now by the blood of Christ,
you who had nothing in common with us Jews,
have been united with us into one family

Christ is the peace between us.
He has broken down the barrier which used to keep us apart

Jesus, break down  barriers of misunderstanding 
which divide the peoples of the world

When the baby was circumcised on the 8th day,
he was given the name Jesus,
the name the angel had given him 9 months before

When Jesus was 40 days old,
his parents took him to the Temple in Jerusalem to present him to the Lord,
as the Law required

In Jerusalem there was an old man named Simeon.
The Holy Spirit had revealed to him that before he died, 
he would see the Christ of the Lord

Prompted by the Spirit, he came to the Temple,
took Jesus in his arms and praised God, saying

"Now, Master, you can let your servant go in peace,
for my eyes have seen the Savior.
He is a light to enlighten the pagans, and he is the glory of your people Israel"

Jesus, true Light of the world, we praise you Lord