10/27/24 Through 11/2/24

 10/27/24 Through 11/2/24

Sunday

So, do we really want to see,

Or is our blindness found to be

Convenient reason for our sin

And that which keeps us far from Him?

Blindness of spirit is common today

The blind are the ones refusing to say

They know what is right and will choose what is true,

Their blindness is chosen to mask what they do.

But blind as we are, one day we will see

Quite clear what the cause of our blindedness be.

When choosing the darkness the light is obscured

But turning to light our blindness is cured.

Monday

An Apostolic faith we claim

Twelve ordinary men who came

To follow Christ and spread His word

Till every soul on Earth has heard.

These men of low and humble state

When Spirit-filled become ones great

Who offered as their Savior did

And never from His light they hid.

They spread His message far and wide

And for their faith in Jesus died

Not one when faced with death would sway

And that's the Catholic faith today.

Tuesday

Husbands love your wives and find

A mystery of the highest kind

That when the two in flesh are one

They then in truth reflect the Son

Who gave His all to save His Bride

Rejecting every hint of pride

In humble service scourged and crowned

True Love upon the Cross was found.

And there upon the Cross must be

The man to love his wife and see

By showing love, submission gained

And every blessing so obtained.

Wednesday

Submission to authority

Is how we learn the best to see

It's how we come to understand

And how we live as God has planned.

Some choose their way apart from Him

To follow on their every whim

They call themselves "good people" though

They have no clue which way to go.

They give appearance of the good

But follow not the way they should

They work for glory of their own

Instead of praising Christ alone

And such as these in final days

When all they have is selfish praise

Will find the narrow gate is closed

To whom the Father's will opposed.

So, turn to Him as Mary did

In love to all the angel bid

His will exceeds in every case

The empty show the others chase.

Thursday

Oh Jesus keep me standing firm

Your ways of love and kindness learn

Unmoved by evil's constant blows

With faith Your mighty shield that shows.

With truth the guard to save my soul

And playing well my given role

By doing all You ask of me

To so Your strength and glory see

In readiness to move the way

Your voice would lead me come what may

With lips confessing You as Lord

Your Spirit as my trusted sword.

Friday

On our journey to the Father

May we with the scripture bother.

His sacred word our guiding light

Our pathway through the dark of night

So far beyond the mind of man

Lies that within the Father's plan

There where every wrong is righted

Every act of love requited.

Saturday

Chastised a little and greatly blest

Afflicted on Earth now passes the test

Proved in the furnace as gold in the fire

Melting away every base desire.

Now comes the time for their shining as light

As sparks in the stubble in darkness of night

Those who have trusted will Truth understand

In the presence of God as the Father has planned.

With Him as their Shepherd and nothing in want

They walk past the wicked who threaten and taunt

No fear shall accost all the days of their lives

In the land where all goodness and holiness thrives.

Christ comes for the sinners to heal and to save

His life for the sinner, on Calvary gave.

He said He would rise, and it's so that He did

No longer the way to the Garden is hid.

In giving of self we obtain what is all

He's lifted the curse we obtained at the Fall

Resurrection no less for the faithful He gives

For Goodness thought dead, forever now lives.