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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.
