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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 01 September 2025 Monday, Twenty-Second Week in Ordinary Time, Year I 1 Thessalonians 4:13-18 <*((((>< + ><))))*> Luke 4:16-30
Hello, September! Praise and glory to you, God our loving Father for this new month: 30 days of life filled with surprises, 30 days to rejoice in you, 30 days to be better, 30 days to be one in you in Christ your Son our Lord; help us Jesus to imitate St. Paul in helping Christians how your death and resurrection shape our identity and future.
Then we who are alive, who are left, will be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air. Thus we shall always be with the Lord. Therefore, console one another with these words (1 Thessalonians 4:17-18).
"we shall always be with the Lord."
Help me, Jesus to imitate Paul in encouraging one another that "we shall always be with you, Lord" especially when material things and worldly concerns shape my thoughts about the future; lately, I have been so concerned with the moral degradation that has worsened in the country that lately have been shaping my thoughts about the future too; Lord Jesus, help me, forgive me when things of the world shape my thoughts of the future even my identity as your disciple that in the process I fail to recognize your coming your presence in me and among us like your folks in Nazareth; let me feel anew your Spirit in me, Jesus, to let that same Spirit animate me like Paul so I could bring "glad tidings to the poor, proclaim liberty to captives, recovery of sight to the blind, to let the oppressed go free, and to proclaim a year acceptable to the Lord" (Luke 4:18-19).
Let me share in your paschal mystery, Jesus, to never lose sight of your Cross to find your Resurrection nearby, not the ways of the world that many times worsen our people's plight. Amen.
