MONDAY OF THE TWENTY-FOURTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Gospel (Luke 7:1-10) After Jesus had finished all his sayings in the hearing of the people, he entered Capernaum. A centurion there had a slave whom he valued highly, and who was ill and close to death. When he heard about Jesus, he sent some Jewish elders to him, asking him to come and heal his slave. When they came to Jesus, they appealed to him earnestly, saying, “He is worthy of having you do this for him, for he loves our people, and it is he who built our synagogue for us.” And Jesus went with them, but when he was not far from the house, the centurion sent friends to say to him, “Lord, do not trouble yourself, for I am not worthy to have you come under my roof; therefore I did not presume to come to you. But only speak the word, and let my servant be healed. For I also am a man set under authority, with soldiers under me; and I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes, and to another, ‘Come,’ and he comes, and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and the slave does it.” When Jesus heard this he was amazed at him, and turning to the crowd that followed him, he said, “I tell you, not even in Israel have I found such faith.” When those who had been sent returned to the house, they found the slave in good health. The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear people of God, In today's Word of God, God the Father invites His children all over the world: to believe in God the Father who is almighty, present and accompanies people. Live and practice that faith by proclaiming Jesus Christ as the Supreme God. God the Father does not want people to live a hypocritical faith, because He knows the human heart, so people should live honestly with God the Father. If our mouths proclaim Jesus Christ as the One of love, the One of power, then our hearts must also have absolute trust in the strength, power and mercy of God. God the Father will not abandon people in suffering. Therefore, believe, trust completely in God the Father and practice what He teaches, then you will have eternal life. Those who live like this, their prayers to God will be heard by Him. Look at the example of faith of the centurion in today's Gospel. He had a strong faith in God. He believed that: just one word from Jesus Christ from afar, his servant would be healed. Today, very few people have such strong faith in Almighty God as this centurion. Therefore, the Word of God today calls on all mankind, children of God the Father created in His image: to return to God the Father, abandon the path of sin, reconcile with Him, live in His love and mercy; practice justice, charity and have a heart of love for your fellow human beings; do as the centurion did who loved his servant. Because of love, he tried every way to meet Jesus Christ, begging Him to heal his servant. His faith was praised by Jesus and He healed his servant. Today's Word of God invites everyone living in this world to have mercy on their brothers and sisters. When they see their brothers and sisters sick in soul and body, they should run to Jesus Christ and call on Him: "Please heal their bodies, and especially please free their souls from Satan's captivity." When God the Father sees your love and strong faith, He will graciously accept your prayers and heal those you pray for. Thanks be to God. Amen.

FEAST OF THE EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS Gospel (JN 3:13-17) Jesus said to Nicodemus: “No one has gone up to heaven except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man. And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert, so must the Son of Man be lifted up, so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal life.” For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world might be saved through him. The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear People of God, Today the Church celebrates the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross. The Word of God in today's Gospel wants to tell all humanity: Jesus Christ is God, He is a God of love. God's love is expressed through the sign of the cross of Jesus Christ. The image of Jesus Christ being crucified, and dying on the cross, shows humanity: that God loves humanity immensely. He sacrificed Himself and died to redeem the sins of all people. He took the sins of all people on Himself and was nailed to the cross. As many sins of humanity as there are nails nailed to the body of Jesus Christ. The sign of Jesus Christ's love for humanity is expressed from the Old Testament to the New Testament. That sign was expressed through the words of God to Moses: You make a bronze snake and hang it on a tree. Whoever looks at the tree with the bronze snake hanging on it will be saved. The reason is that the people blamed God and Moses. They had sinned and displeased God, and He allowed evil to happen, by letting poisonous snakes bite and kill many people. After the people sinned and were bitten to death by snakes, the people realized that they had sinned against God and Moses; so they ran to ask God to forgive their sins, and their prayers were answered by God. He showed mercy and saved the people by giving Moses the instruction to hang the bronze snake on a tree so that whoever believed in God's words spoken through Moses and looked at the bronze snake would live. God's saving love has been shown since the Old Testament and continues to this day, that is the image of Jesus Christ lovingly dying and hanging on the cross. Today, God also invites His sinful children: to look up at the cross of love, sincerely recognize how their sins have offended God and others, repent and return to God; ask Him to forgive, ask Him to cleanse all sins, and grant healing to have eternal life. God said that in this world, everyone is a sinner. Therefore, He died hanging on the cross so that anyone who looks up at that cross, believes in God's love, asks Him to forgive, and asks Him to grant conversion will have eternal life and happiness with God. The cross of God's saving love will endure until the end of the world. God came to the world to save humanity. He never condemned or brought evil to people, but He sacrificed His life to die just because He loved people. Therefore, He calls all His children: to sincerely repent of their sins when looking up at the cross where God Himself is present, crucified, and died to redeem humanity. Whoever wants to have a resurrection life with Jesus Christ, should look up at the cross of love, and follow God's teachings. He will save that person's soul. Thanks be to God. Amen.

FRIDAY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME (Luke 6:39-42) Gospel Lk 6:39-42 Jesus told his disciples a parable: "Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? No disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained, every disciple will be like his teacher. Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the wooden beam in your own? How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,' when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in your brother's eye." The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear People of God, Today's Word of God wants to tell everyone that God is the One who knows everything. Only He is the One who sets the law and judges people. Between people, no one has the right to judge others, because everyone is a sinner before God, no one is holy and pure before Him. God always wants people to live pure, clean, and holy; but they cannot. He gives people the power to support and help each other. However, people today are greedy for fame and power and want to use power to dominate others. The desire to dominate others leads people to arrogance and pride, and from arrogance will lead to contempt and judgment of their brothers and sisters; while they themselves are also full of sin before God. But God is always patient and merciful to them. He desires and waits for them to repent, recognize their mistakes, and return to God. In the Word of God in today's Gospel, Jesus warns everyone: whoever wants to remove the splinter in another person's eye, must first remove the wooden beam in his own eye. You must change and convert your soul first so that you can see clearly in order to remove the splinter from the other person's eye and help them to convert, abandon sin, and begin living a fresh, pure, innocent life. But people today do not see their own sins to correct them, but instead condemn and judge their brothers and sisters; that is a serious sin before God, and He is not pleased with those who judge and criticize their brothers and sisters. The Word of God today wants to tell everyone: - To Live in humility and humble yourself before God. - Do not judge or condemn your brothers and sisters. - Do not forbid your brothers and sisters from living according to God's way of love; because those things do not come from God but from Satan. God knows that people are facing difficulties, suffering, and challenges. He loves and does not abandon anyone. Therefore, He calls each person: - Try to live a good life. Live in purity and clearly before God - Strive to eliminate all bad thoughts, words, and actions; eliminate sin from our souls. - Run to God and reconcile with Him so that He can remove the "beams" and "garbage" from our souls. Living like that, we will live together in harmony, unity, and love; more than that, we will be reconciled and live in close union with God, we will have Him reign in our souls, and put on Jesus Christ as our new self. Thanks be to God. Amen

The Word of God for Everyone Dear People of God, Today's Word of God teaches people three basic conditions: love your enemies, be merciful to others, and do not judge anyone. The first condition: "Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, bless those who curse you, pray for those who mistreat you." Jesus' teaching today is a wonderful lesson in charity: love your enemies. No commandment has caused more controversy than this one. - He teaches us how to live and behave towards everyone. - He teaches us to love others as ourselves. Others can be those who love us but also include enemies who do not love us, hate us, and even those who harm us. It is the law of loving one's enemies. This is a transcendental law. Before we can obey this law, we must understand its meaning. Greek has three words for love: First is Eros, which is a desire, a craving, a physical love between a man and a woman. The nature of Eros is a possessive force, wanting to reach and possess what is lacking. Second is Philo, which is natural love between relatives. Third is Agape, which is sacrifice, a love that does not come naturally but through effort, guided by the will. The power of agape does not lie in "possessing", but in "giving". Therefore, this love does not discriminate, does not measure, and does not require conditions. It is charity, it is brotherhood, it is love of giving everything, it is the love of God who "so loved the world that he gave his only Son" for the world. The second condition: You must be merciful, "as your Father is merciful." When we talk about mercy, we are reminded of the story of the Good Samaritan. Jesus used this parable as a teaching story. He asked His listeners: "Who showed himself to be a neighbor to the man who fell into the hands of robbers?" Jesus reversed the question of the scholar of the law. Instead of answering the question "Who was the neighbor?" He asked, "Who showed himself to be a neighbor, showing mercy to the man in distress?" Actually, the question "Who was the neighbor?" is not as important as the question "To whom did I show mercy?" Knowing how to be merciful to others, especially to one's enemies, does not consist in words, but in deeds, in a truly compassionate heart, and in an attitude of brotherhood towards others, which is the attitude of the highest level of love: Agape love, which is the love that God wants people to attain, in order to be close to God and to be with Him in the Kingdom of Heaven. The third condition: "Do not judge, so that you will not be judged by God." Today's Gospel, God teaches people that: Whoever knows how to be merciful with a great Agape love does not know how to judge others, because judging is the work of the devil, and only God has the right to judge. In the work of the Holy Spirit's sanctification, this third condition is the condition that the Realistic Word of God always reminds those who want to live and practice His words and is the necessary condition for the devil to be defeated: "God the Father wants that when entering into the work of God the Father, one must recognize one's status as a sinner, having received mercy from God the Father so as not to judge others; remember that only God the Father has the right to judge and that we are nothing, we are just a sinful person so as never to condemn, judge, or scrutinize our brothers and sisters." (The Realistic Word of God 01/24/2023) - "God the Father wants that when you see a brother or sister of yours or anyone else behaving badly, you must pray to God the Father that you may not judge or think badly of that person, but only be silent, accept the weakness of that brother or sister and pray, asking God the Father to transform, so that that brother or sister can live what God the Father teaches." Thanks be to God. Amen

WEDNESDAY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Gospel (Luke 6:20-26) Then he looked up at his disciples and said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who are hungry now, for you will be filled. Blessed are you who weep now, for you will laugh. “Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you, revile you, and defame you on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice in that day and leap for joy, for surely your reward is great in heaven; for that is what their ancestors did to the prophets. “But woe to you who are rich, for you have received your consolation. Woe to you who are full now, for you will be hungry. Woe to you who are laughing now, for you will mourn and weep. “Woe to you when all speak well of you, for that is what their ancestors did to the false prophets. The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear people of God, In the Word of God in today's Gospel, God wants to tell everyone about the blessings and woes, and He gives instructions for people to know and choose to follow the good path or the bad path. God is a merciful Father, He gives the blessings which are good things for people to practice. He points out the woes which are the woes so that everyone must know and avoid them; whoever has fallen into that bad path, please return to God, do not continue to follow the woes. God says that only God is the only supreme Being that people need to seek. All material things and worldly wealth are only temporary, fleeting, and will no longer exist when God calls each person out of this world. It is just a means for us to use to help share with others, they are the provisions to help people enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Today's Word of God invites people: to run to God, obey and carry out His commands, love, support and share with each other. Look at the example of Jesus Christ, God, the richest One who dared to give up everything, accepting to become poor to sympathize, share and help the poor, the sick, and to free those who are imprisoned by Satan. God never puts material things above all things, but He needs people to live according to the image of the good people that God created, that is a good, holy person, and who has a heart that knows how to love everyone. Through the blessings and woes in today's Gospel, God calls all of His children: -Return to God, live in love, charity, share with your fellow human beings, especially help the poor and miserable in society. -Be like Christ in all places, at all times and in all circumstances, because only He is the perfect example for everyone to learn and follow. -Do not exalt the material things of the world but exalt the love for God and others; because only God's commandment of love can bring true happiness to people, and is the path that leads people to the Kingdom of Heaven. Today, God calls everyone: to follow God's commandments, not to stray from His teachings, to walk on the path of the cross that Jesus Christ has gone through. That is the path of love, full of thorns, obstacles and suffering, but that is the most pleasing thing to God that He calls everyone, every day: to walk the narrow path to enter the Kingdom of Heaven, because the wide and spacious path will lead people to destruction and separation from God. Thanks be to God. Amen

TUESDAY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Gospel (Lk 6:12-19) Jesus departed to the mountain to pray, and he spent the night in prayer to God. When day came, he called his disciples to himself, and from them he chose Twelve, whom he also named Apostles: Simon, whom he named Peter, and his brother Andrew, James, John, Philip, Bartholomew, Matthew, Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, Simon who was called a Zealot, and Judas the son of James, and Judas Iscariot, who became a traitor. And he came down with them and stood on a stretch of level ground. A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people from all Judea and Jerusalem and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases; and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured. Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him because power came forth from him and healed them all. The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear People of God, The Word of God in today's Gospel recounts two events: The first event was Jesus stayed up all night praying to God the Father before choosing the twelve apostles so that they could collaborate with Him in the plan of salvation of humanity. - The second event was Jesus healed all diseases and unclean spirits, showing the great power of God who can drive out Satan and heal all diseases for humanity. Today, God wants to teach humanity a lesson: When doing anything, we need to run to God to ask for His help. We must always be closely united with Him in prayer at all times and in all places so that He can enlighten and guide us in our words and actions. For even Jesus Christ, the Son of God who came down to earth to become man had to constantly pray, incorporating with God the Father to unite with God the Father, to listen to His Word, and to receive the commands from God the Father to teach and tell all mankind about what to do and how to live according to the will of God the Father. Now, God wants His apostles to always unite and pray without ceasing with God the Father so that He can strengthen them to be able to listen to His instructions on what to do according to His will. Because without God's will to teach and without His Spirit to guide, we will be superficially living on the outside. We will act against God's will and will be taken advantage of by Satan to interfere and destroy His plan of salvation. Through Jesus' exorcism of demons and healing of diseases, God also revealed that: to have the strength and power of God to cast out Satan and to heal the diseases of the sick and sinners, each of us needs the following: - We must have the strength and power of God within ourselves. - We must receive grace from God through constant prayer. - We must live a holy life as God calls us to do in order to have the power and the authority of God to make Satan submit. For if anyone still lives according to the passions of the world, demons will laugh, and they will not submit to come out of the sick and sinners, and the strength and power of prayer to heal will not be effective. Therefore, the Word of God today calls all of His children, especially the leaders in the Church: - Must always have a life of close and continuous union with God the Father at all times and in all places, never leaving Him for a moment. - In all actions, thoughts, words, and deeds, we must always put God above all things; and we must always be aware of God's presence in our life. - Be humble, be self-abasement, and ask for God's power and strength to manifest in us to help us carry out God's commands correctly. This will help others have a peaceful and happy life in God's loving arms. Indeed, only God's power, authority, and holiness can expel Satan, and heal all illnesses and diseases of the sick and sinners. Whoever wants to be an instrument of God to help our brothers and sisters who are suffering from illness of the soul and body, must listen to and follow the teachings of God. Thanks be to God. Amen

MONDAY OF THE TWENTY-THIRD WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME Gospel (Luke 6:6-11) On another sabbath he entered the synagogue and taught, and there was a man there whose right hand was withered. The scribes and the Pharisees watched him to see whether he would cure on the sabbath, so that they might find an accusation against him. Even though he knew what they were thinking, he said to the man who had the withered hand, “Come and stand here.” He got up and stood there. Then Jesus said to them, “I ask you, is it lawful to do good or to do harm on the sabbath, to save life or to destroy it?” After looking around at all of them, he said to him, “Stretch out your hand.” He did so, and his hand was restored. But they were filled with fury and discussed with one another what they might do to Jesus The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear people of God, Today's Word of God teaches people to have love for their fellow human beings. Between people, do not cause division, jealousy, and hatred, because those things do not come from God but from Satan. God does not want people to fall into Satan's traps, because it will lead them to eternal death and separation from God. From the beginning, God created people in His image, that is, He placed in people a heart that knows how to love their fellow human beings. But today, people are increasingly moving away from faith, away from God, so their lives are filled with hatred, jealousy, and killing each other. Therefore, the Word of God always reminds each person's soul to live and practice according to God's commandments, which is: to love your fellow human beings as yourself. The image of Jesus healing a paralyzed man in the synagogue on the Sabbath day shows that: He is a God of love, He came to save people from all painful illnesses of the soul as well as the body. He always puts love above all laws. He always shows immense mercy to everyone. Through that, He teaches people to love others as themselves. Do not let your brothers and sisters live in suffering, in the pain of illness, because of the law, and do not harm the souls of your brothers and sisters because of the law; those things make God very sad. Today's Word of God invites everyone: - Do not live hypocritically like the hypocritical Pharisees and hypocrites, but live truly from the heart, have mercy on your fellow human beings as God has had mercy on you. - Become true disciples of Jesus Christ, always listen and follow the call of your Master, that is: have charity, love, sympathy and help all your brothers and sisters who are imprisoned, harassed by Satan, who are suffering in soul and body. - Become like the little, lowly people to serve your brothers and sisters with the self-sacrificing love of Christ. - Look up to the image of a loving God crucified on the cross, He died for the sins of each person and all humanity, so that from there each person will be determined to give up the greed, anger and ignorance of the world and practice the Word of God. Thanks be to God. Amen

TWENTY-THIRD SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME Gospel (Mk 7:31-37) Again Jesus left the district of Tyre and went by way of Sidon to the Sea of Galilee, into the district of the Decapolis. And people brought to him a deaf man who had a speech impediment and begged him to lay his hand on him. He took him off by himself away from the crowd. He put his finger into the man’s ears and, spitting, touched his tongue; then he looked up to heaven and groaned, and said to him, “Ephphatha!”— that is, “Be opened!” — And immediately the man’s ears were opened, his speech impediment was removed, and he spoke plainly. He ordered them not to tell anyone. But the more he ordered them not to, the more they proclaimed it. They were exceedingly astonished and they said, “He has done all things well. He makes the deaf hear and the mute speak.” The Gospel of the Lord: Praise to You, Lord Jesus Christ. The Word of God for Everyone Dear People of God, In the Word of God today, God reveals to all mankind His plan and His work. All of God's salvation for mankind has been arranged by God the Father since the beginning of creation til today and into the future, originating from His love for mankind. God the Father always watches over mankind every second, every minute, in every breath of human life on this earth. God the Father is the Lord of all creatures, whether in the heavens above or on the earth below. All is in God the Father’s powerful hands. That is what God the Father wants people to thank, worship, and always trust and believe in Him. As in the book of Isaiah, the prophet was inspired by the Spirit of God to speak His Word. He called on all people to trust and believe in God, especially when facing difficulties, challenges, disasters, and calamities, to courageously run to God; ask for His help, ask for His protection, ask for His powerful hand to support and protect you from the evils of Satan and their minions. And until today, God has always accompanied and been with people. Because His Word has said: "I am with you always, until the end of the age.” This togetherness is realized when people have faith in Jesus Christ who died and rose again. This is the only thing God the Father left for people in the Salvation Work of Jesus Christ: for people to live in the Kingdom of Heaven, they must absolutely believe in Jesus Christ who died and was resurrected to atone for their sins. Today's Word of God teaches people that: His power is supreme, He can do everything, He drives away Satan, and He heals all illnesses and disabilities among people. But, to receive the power and strength of God for ourselves, He wants people to believe, trust, and rely absolutely on the power of God. Because of that absolute trust, God can manifest His power on us. He can drive away Satan, heal all illnesses, and disabilities according to His will. As God always respects human freedom. This is what God the Father wants people to know, to listen,and to follow the will of God. This is what God the Father wants people to believe absolutely in Jesus Christ who is truly present. He is the true God and true man when He heals all illnesses and disabilities among the people; when He teaches good things that lead to eternal life; when He delivers the command of God the Father, when He sacrifices Himself to die and rise again to save all mankind. Moreover, God also promised that He would be with mankind until the end of the world. That is His Word and He Himself is hidden in the small bread at the Holy Eucharistic Table, in the Eucharist to love, to nourish mankind. This is what God the Father calls people to have to believe, since it is the mysterious manifestation of His love for humanity. Without faith, people will live far from God, live in loneliness, and die at the hands of Satan. Therefore, to be happy in the love of God the Father in the Kingdom of Heaven, He calls us when living on this earth: to run to God, practice the Word of God every day, worship God present in the Eucharist with firm trust, surrender, and hope in the power and strength of God the Supreme Father; Trust in His great power in the work of the Holy Spirit in the new era, the work of Sanctification of all creatures that He has created. Thanks be to God. Amen.