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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 

God said to Moses:

"The Israelites must make the sabbath a holy day each week,
because the sabbath is a sign between you and me.

Do not do any ordinary work on the sabbath.

Work for six days, then rest on the sabbath.

Consecrate the sabbath to me."

God's words were inscribed on two stone tablets.

Dear God, please help us to make Sunday a holy day

O Lord, listen to my prayer in my distress.
Do not hide your face from me.

For my days are vanishing like smoke,
my bones burn away like a fire.

I forget to eat my bread.
My skin clings to my bones.

All day long my foes revile me.
Those who hate me use my name as a curse.

But you, O Lord, will endure for ever.
You will arise and have mercy on Sion.

You will hear the groans of the prisoners
and free those condemned to die.

I pray to you: "Do not take me away before my time has come,
you whose days last from age to age.

Lord, please help people who are in great distress 

After two years, Felix was succeeded by Festus.
Festus arranged a new trial for Paul

The religious leaders repeated their accusations.
Paul repeated his innocence

Festus wanted to gain favor with the leaders so he said to Paul
"Are you willing to go to Jerusalem for a trial
with the full council of religious leaders, at which I would preside?"

Paul knew his rights, and stood his ground,
not wanting to go to a kangaroo court in Jerusalem.
So he invoked his right as a Roman citizen: "I appeal to Caesar"

Festus replied "You have appealed to Caesar;
to Caesar (Rome) you shall go"

Jesus, please give us courage to stand up for our rights

After their last meal, Jesus said to his apostles
"Tonight all of you will desert me".

Peter said "I will never desert you".
Jesus replied "Tonight before the rooster crows,
you will deny me three times".

They came to a place with olive trees called Gethsemane.
Jesus took Peter, James and John to a part of that area
and asked them to pray with him.

Jesus was overcome with sadness and fear.
He said to them "Sadness is filling my heart, as if my heart is dying.
Please support me as I pray."

Then he fell on his face and prayed for about an hour:
"Father, don't let this suffering continue. But your will be done".

He stood up and found that the apostles were asleep.
He said to them "Couldn't you stay awake one hour to support me?"

Three times he prayed the same way.
Three times the apostles went to sleep.

Then he said "Get ready.  The one who is betraying me is coming".

Jesus, please help me give more time to prayer