Coming together to God

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Lord My Chef Daily Recipe for the Soul, 20 November 2025
Thursday in the Thirty-Third Week of Ordinary Time, Year I
1 Maccabees 2:15-29     ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'> + ><]]]]'>     Luke 19:41-44

God the Lord has spoken and summoned the earth… “Gather my faithful ones before me, those who have made a covenant with me by sacrifice” … “Offer to God praise as your sacrifice and fulfill your vows to the Most High; Then call upon me in time of distress; I will rescue you and you shall glorify me” (Psalm 50:1, 5, 14-15).

Yes, God our loving Father,
I could hear your call
and here I am before you,
coming to you
to praise
and worship you
not only with gifts
but with my total self
to serve you;
thank you in calling me
among your "faithful ones"
despite my sins and weaknesses.

Give me the courage
and strength, O God,
 of Mattathias
and his brothers
and followers
to not only stand for what
is true and good in your eyes
but even for a time,
to flee to the mountains
to retreat into my self
to find you by leaving everything
in order to live according
to your will and plans;
let me not be stubborn
like your old city of Jerusalem
who rejected your Son Jesus Christ
that he wept over her coming
destruction.

Let me come today
with your other faithful ones
to glorify your name,
O God our Father
in Christ Jesus.
Amen.