Peanut Gallery: Follow-up “La Manif Pour Tous” – thanks to public catholic for bringing this to our attention.
Sadly – the march did not change the Socialist Government’s mind –
“French Official Says ‘No’ to 800,000 Marchers, Will Push Ahead with Gay Marriage” – click on headline for full story.
Our hope for the future.
Reading: Luke 5.27-32 NLT
Later, as Jesus left the town, he saw a tax collector named Levi sitting at his tax collector’s booth. “Follow me and be my disciple,” Jesus said to him. So Levi got up, left everything, and followed him.
Later, Levi held a banquet in his home with Jesus as the guest of honor. Many of Levi’s fellow tax collectors and other guests also ate with them. But the Pharisees and their teachers of religious law complained bitterly to Jesus’ disciples, “Why do you eat and drink with such scum?”
Jesus answered them, “Healthy people don’t need a doctor—sick people do. I have come to call not those who think they are righteous, but those who know they are sinners and need to repent.”
Prayer: Lord Jesus – Give me Your love and compassion for lost souls. Make me an instrument of Your mercy and grace. Give me Your eyes to see, Your words to speak, and Your kindness to welcome the sick and weary back home… into Your family. Amen.
Hymn: “Softly and Tenderly” – Will L. Thompson (1880)
Please click on audio link – “Softly and Tenderly” by Bart Millard
Softly and tenderly Jesus is calling, Calling for you and for me; See, on the portals He’s waiting and watching, Watching for you and for me.
Come home, come home, You who are weary, come home; Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, Calling, O sinner, come home!
Oh, for the wonderful love He has promised, Promised for you and for me! Though we have sinned, He has mercy and pardon, Pardon for you and for me.
Come home, come home, You who are weary, come home; Earnestly, tenderly, Jesus is calling, Calling, O sinner, come home!
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