May I meet You in my soul and receive Your sacred Word. Recommit yourself to this process and you will find that you, too, are truly blessed!Įternal Word of God, may I hear You speak to me.

From there, reflect upon whether you are living what you know He has spoken. Start with hearing and reflect upon whether or not you daily allow yourself to be engaged by Jesus. Reflect, today, upon both hearing and observing. So often we can have very good intentions but fail to follow through with action by living the Word of God. Though it can be challenging to hear Jesus speak and to internalize what He says, it is even more challenging to then let His Word change us to the point that we live what He has spoken. We are, as a people, been facing an uncertain future in our country, and indeed around the world. Friends, I greet you this Holy Week in the name of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. It means we are engaging a Person, Jesus Himself, and we are letting Him communicate to us whatever He desires to communicate. Daily Reflection Special lockdown message of hope from Bishop Kito A reflection for Easter Rt Rev’d Te Kitohi Pikaahu E te iwi, e te hoa ma, tena koutou katoa. “Hearing” in this case means that God has communicated to our souls. First of all, hearing the Word of God is not simply an audible hearing or a reading of the Bible. Both of them take much commitment in the spiritual life. Hearing and doing are two very different things. He honors her and calls her blessed because she, more than anyone else, hears the Word of God and observes it perfectly.

But Jesus honors His mother to an even greater degree by stating what He does. Interestingly, the woman speaking to Jesus in this passage was honoring His mother by saying she was blessed to have carried and fed Him. While Jesus was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, “Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed.” He replied, “Rather, blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it.” Luke 11:27-28ĭo you hear the Word of God? And if you do hear it, do you observe it? If so, then you can consider yourself among those truly blessed by our Lord. Saturday of the Twenty-Seventh Week in Ordinary Time

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