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Message of the Day
You alone have been made the image of the Reality that transcends all understanding, the likeness of imperishable beauty, the imprint of true divinity, the recipient of beatitude, the seal of the true light. When you turn to him you become that which he is himself.
- Gregory of Nyssa, Second Homily on the Song of Songs
(Spend some time in prayer simply looking unto God that you might be a reflection of his love and light this day.)
Readings of the Day
- http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
DN 1:1-6, 8-20; DN 3:52-56; LK 21:1-4
R. Glory and praise for ever!“Blessed are you, O Lord, the God of our fathers,
praiseworthy and exalted above all forever;
And blessed is your holy and glorious name,
praiseworthy and exalted above all for all ages.”
“Blessed are you in the temple of your holy glory,
praiseworthy and glorious above all forever.”
“Blessed are you on the throne of your Kingdom,
praiseworthy and exalted above all forever.”
“Blessed are you who look into the depths
from your throne upon the cherubim,
praiseworthy and exalted above all forever.”
“Blessed are you in the firmament of heaven,
praiseworthy and glorious forever.”
Reflection on the Scriptures
- http://www.preacherexchange.com/daily_bread.htm
This poor widow ... from her poverty has offered her whole livelihood.
Money makes people act strange. This morning on my Facebook page was a link to a video that described a study from the University of California, Berkeley. The outcome showed that wealthier people tend to be less generous and less compassionate. This includes people who are in real life poor, but who, in a rigged game of Monopoly, were made to feel rich. It includes college kids and older folks; self-described liberals and conservatives. What does it mean? Is it in our DNA to believe that people who are worth more are more worthy? Jesus’ message was counterintuitive in first-century Israel and it is so in today’s modern world. Living by that message may be a test impossible to pass ... without grace.
Lord Jesus -- gulp! -- make me poor.
- by Paige Byrne Shortal
Spiritual Reading
The Sparkling Stone, by St. John Rusybroeck (1293-1381)
The state of the Jews, according to the Old Testament, was cold and in the night, and they walked in darkness. And they Dwelt in the land of the shadow of death, says the prophet Isaias. The shadow of death came forth from original sin; and therefore they had all to endure the lack of God. But though our state in the Christian faith is but still in the cool and morning hour; yet for us the day has dawned. And therefore we shall walk in the light, and shall sit down in the shadow, of God; and His grace shall be an intermediary between ourselves and God. And, through it, we shall overcome all things, and shall die to all things, and shall pass without hindrance into the unity of God. But the state of the saints is warm and bright; for they live and walk in the noon-tide, and see with open and enlightened eyes the brightness of the Sun, for the glory of God flows through them and overflows in them. And each one according to the degree of his enlightenment, tastes and knows the fruits of all the virtues which have there been gathered together by all spirits. But that they taste and know the Trinity in the Unity, and the Unity in the Trinity, and know themselves united therewith, this is the highest and all-surpassing food which makes them drunken, and causes them to rest in Its Selfhood. And This it was that the bride in the Book of Love desired, when she said unto Christ: Tell me, O thou Whom my soul loveth, where Thou feedest, where Thou makest Thy flock to rest at noon, that is, in the light of glory, as St Bernard says; for all the food which is given to us here, in the morning hour and in the shadow, is but a foretaste of the food that is to come in the noon-tide of the glory of God.
- Chapter 11. Of the great difference between the brightness of the Saints and the highest brightness to which we can attain in this life.
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