Ponder the Word of God in Your Heart

Speaker 0 00:00:00 I think of Christmas and the name of the father and the son, the Holy spirit. Amen. Today's mass has been offered for creative attorney was a 76 year old, a French creativity, 76, George, I think Fowler on who? Uh, who, well, we just got notice. I think he died yesterday. So the second Kollek is for his soul. So please remember him in your prayers. Uh, priest judgment is far more severe than the judgment of a lay person. When we have to appear before the throne of God, we've been given so much responsibility, we've been given a lot more graces to accomplish them, but you can see the kind of job we're doing by looking at the world we're in. So a priest certainly needs a lot of prayers in general so that they do their duty. And in particular, for our particular judgment in the gospel, we see it recorded to us that our lady pondered all these things in her heart. Speaker 0 00:00:58 That's the kind of thing we're supposed to do with the words of our lore, the words from sacred scripture, these are living words that God has given to us and how often it is that people just have a Bible. You go over there, you think you need to dust it off. It's like a decoration. It's something that we should employ. There'll be to our great shame at our judgment at the final judgment. When we see how many people that didn't have the true faith, put more stock in the Bible than Catholics. It's kind of amazing to me at times. It doesn't mean you have to memorize it or something like that, but you should certainly spend time in the scripture, pondering those things in your heart, pottering, the scriptures, you here at Holy mass. What is the message every day in the scriptures for you? Cause there is one every day in the scripture, not just what the priest says or whatever, but there's something in there for you and you should ask every day before you come to Holy mass, what is it that you want me to hear? What is it that you want me to think on today, Lord? And if you get in that habit, he will let you know, ask our lady for the grades to ponder the word of God in your heart.