Mar 20, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Thursday of the 5th week of Lent
Gospel – John 8:51-59
“‘I tell you most solemnly, before Abraham ever was, I Am”. This is the truth about Jesus Christ. He is God. He is the second person of the Holy Trinity. That is why He existed always. And He will exist always. He is the incarnate Word of God. And that is why Jesus is saying, “Your father Abraham rejoiced to think that he would see my Day; he saw it and was glad.” The Word of God is same to Abraham and to all and in all time. And whoever believes in this Word of God, participates in this eternity. The Word became flesh and dwelt among us. The dwelling is not in one moment of the history. This dwelling encompasses all moments of the history. Or better said, all moments in the history and even all future moments belong to this one moment in history – the incarnation. Hearing this they picked up stone to throw at him. Jesus hid himself and left the temple. When His Word is not recognized, He hides and leaves the temple. Let’s reflect: Lent is the time to connect all moments of my life to the moment of incarnation.
Mar 20, 2024 | NEWS
This year’s Lent abounds in retreat meetings addressed to children, youth or adults.
Pastors from many parishes in Poland are asking to introduce the servant of God Sister Dulcissima to the faithful as part of school or parish retreats. It’s really a good time, full of challenges, but also lively prayer. I am convinced that the handmaid of God Sr.Dulcissima is present and leads people towards God. She is the one who leads the retreat, I am just telling about the graces that Sister Hoffmann experienced and the graces that people receive when they ask her to intercede. May the Good God bless all who put their hope in Him. May He bless those invoking the help of God’s servant Sister Dulcissima.
Sr. Małgorzata Cur
Mar 19, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Wednesday of the 5th week of Lent
Gospel – John 8:31-42
“‘If you make my word your home you will indeed be my disciples, you will learn the truth and the truth will make you free.’” Jesus is asking a very precise thing “to make His word our home”. How is make the Word of God our home? This is the point of our reflection. If we want to make the Words of Jesus, our home, first we have to find space for that home in our life. The space to make home with the Words of Jesus. Often, we have occupied the spaces of our life with other things like our selfish interests and ideas. So, we don’t have space to build our home with the Word of God. Therefore, we must make space to build our home with the Words of Jesus. Then the second is to really make the home. That is when the Word of God makes the decisions in our daily life. Then the Words of Jesus becomes the home where everything is secondary to it. Let’ reflect: Lent is the time to make home with the words of Jesus.
Mar 18, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Saint Joseph, husband of the Blessed Virgin Mary
Gospel – Matthew 1:16,18-21,24
“Joseph son of David do not be afraid to take Mary home as your wife, because she has conceived what is in her by the Holy Spirit”. Here Joseph represents each one of us. He represents us because we all have this fear. Fear and anxiety are always blocking our way to accept the will of God in our life. In those moments when we don’t know what to do, in those moments when we get stuck and frightened to proceed, St. Joseph is our model. He received his light in a dream. St. Joseph wished so much to be a man of honor so that he wanted so much to find out the will of God regarding the question before him. This ardent desire to do the good is the reason for the dream. The dream of St. Joseph is where his deep desire to do the good and the profound love of God meet. Dream is the prayer of where the longing of human heart for God meets the plan of God for us. Let’s reflect: Can we dream like St. Joseph where the longing of human heart for God meets the plan of God for us?
Mar 17, 2024 | DAILY BREAD
Monday of the 5th week of Lent
Saint Cyril of Jerusalem, Bishop, Doctor
Gospel – John 8:1-11
‘If there is one of you who has not sinned, let him be the first to throw a stone at her.’ The Pharisees and scribes brought this woman caught in the act of committing adultery to test Jesus. They wanted to find out whether Jesus will be lenient in the law of Moses. In this episode we see how God sees the sins and how man sees the sins. For men the sins are occasion to accuse and condemn. But for Jesus, the sin is the occasion to save the sinner. Man condemn the sinner and continue to sin. Jesus condemn the sin but save the sinner. This love of God is very important to understand what we must do with our sins. Jesus loves us and wants to save us. He condemns ths sin but He loves each person and He sees each person different from the sin. The sinner is not identified with the sin. The sinner is identified as a person to be saved and loved. Let’s reflect: Lent is to understand the love of God which saves the sinner but condemns the sin.
