Welcome to the Saturday Examine.

This week's reading.

This week's readings have spoken about God's law, which is the law of love.

Human beings can be geniuses at taking an invitation from God and turning it into a burdensome obligation,

what someone once described as hardening of the aughteries.

But there is no should or ought in the new commandment of Jesus, only an invitation to grow

in love and freedom.

Have you had any sense of being invited to grow in freedom this week?

Or have the readings perhaps revealed to you parts of yourself that are trapped in a false sense of compulsion?

Where does that say? that are trapped in a false sense of compulsion.

Where does that sense of imprisonment come from? And what might set you free from it? So, Oh, The Oh, Thursday's reading was a prophecy about living water and healing.

Have you felt a need or desire for healing this week or for growth in fruitfulness within your life. Oh, Oh, We also had readings about growing and living in love, a love of neighbor that stems from learning to love ourselves.

Do you have a sense of having received this grace or of standing in need of it?

What aspects of yourself do you find it hard to love?

And why? The Oh, I'm going to Have there been particular graces that you felt you needed this week or a particular desire to thank God for gifts received?

Take some time to reconnect with them. Oh, I'm going to Oh, You're going to be. People react to the words of scripture in different ways and at different stages of their own life.

However this week's readings have struck you and caused you to respond.

Take time now to say what is in your heart to God, asking forgiveness, strength and healing, or asking for whatever gift and grace seems to be drawing you. Oh, Oh, Oh, Glory be to the Father and to the Father and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit as it was in the beginning is now and ever

shall be world without end. Amen. You're