Heaven Bound: Believing and Following Him Alone! We Are His People, the Sheep of His Flock!

 

I am believing in God alone and following only Him while here on this Earth School! We are His people, the sheep of His flock! He just wants us to know Him, to follow His commandments, the teachings of Jesus, and be people of goodwill while here. It is not always easy, there are a lot of challenges, this Earth brings a lot because of the people, sin, temptation, greed, corruption, fraud, etc. We see a lot of that from our elected and so called leaders, we need not to follow them, only God, He tells us how to live and comport ourselves, He is who we need to follow, Him alone! We are his people: the sheep of his flock! Unfortunately, today many do not want to follow God, know Jesus, be people of goodwill, they become consumed with this world, this Earth, the people, money, carnal desires, we become obsessed with this world, becoming slaves for Satan, not thinking of the world we can go with Jesus in Heaven. That is where we should be putting all our efforts toward. We need to reconcile ourselves with God alone! Repent, turn to God, follow Him! We need to be disciples for Christ while here, leading others to the chance to spend eternity with Him in Heaven! 

Eleventh Sunday in Ordinary Time

Reading 1
Exodus 19:2-6a
In those days, the Israelites came to the desert of Sinai and pitched camp.
While Israel was encamped here in front of the mountain,
Moses went up the mountain to God.
Then the LORD called to him and said,
“Thus shall you say to the house of Jacob;
tell the Israelites:
You have seen for yourselves how I treated the Egyptians
and how I bore you up on eagle wings
and brought you here to myself. 
Therefore, if you hearken to my voice and keep my covenant,
you shall be my special possession,
dearer to me than all other people,
though all the earth is mine.
You shall be to me a kingdom of priests, a holy nation.”

Responsorial Psalm
Ps 100:1-2, 3, 5
R. (3c) We are his people: the sheep of his flock.
Sing joyfully to the LORD, all you lands;
    serve the LORD with gladness;
    come before him with joyful song.
R. We are his people: the sheep of his flock.
Know that the LORD is God;
    he made us, his we are;
    his people, the flock he tends.
R. We are his people: the sheep of his flock.
The LORD is good:
    his kindness endures forever,
    and his faithfulness to all generations.
R. We are his people: the sheep of his flock.

Reading 2
Romans 5:6-11
Brothers and sisters:
Christ, while we were still helpless, 
yet died at the appointed time for the ungodly.
Indeed, only with difficulty does one die for a just person,
though perhaps for a good person
one might even find courage to die.
But God proves his love for us
in that while we were still sinners Christ died for us.
How much more then, since we are now justified by his blood,
will we be saved through him from the wrath.
Indeed, if, while we were enemies,
we were reconciled to God through the death of his Son,
how much more, once reconciled,
will we be saved by his life.
Not only that,
but we also boast of God through our Lord Jesus Christ,
through whom we have now received reconciliation.

Alleluia
Mark 1:15
R.    Alleluia, alleluia.
The kingdom of God is at hand.
Repent and believe in the Gospel. 
R.   Alleluia, alleluia.

Gospel
Matthew 9:36—10:8
At the sight of the crowds, Jesus’ heart was moved with pity for them 
because they were troubled and abandoned,
like sheep without a shepherd.
Then he said to his disciples,
“The harvest is abundant but the laborers are few;
so ask the master of the harvest
to send out laborers for his harvest.”
Then he summoned his twelve disciples
and gave them authority over unclean spirits
to drive them out and to cure every disease and every illness.
The names of the twelve apostles are these:
first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew;
James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
Philip and Bartholomew, Thomas and Matthew the tax collector;
James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus;
Simon from Cana, and Judas Iscariot who betrayed him.
Jesus sent out these twelve after instructing them thus,
“Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.
Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
Cure the sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, drive out demons.
Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.”