A Daily Spiritual Seed
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Message of the Day
Truth seeth God, and wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two cometh the third: that is, a holy marvellous delight in God; which is love. Where truth and wisdom are verily, there is love verily, coming of them both.
- Julian of Norwich [14th-15th C.], “Revelations of Divine Love”
(Pray the grace to love God and neighbor more this day.)
Readings of the Day
- http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
IS 48:17-19; PS 1:1-4, 6; MT 11:16-19
R. Those who follow you, Lord, will have the light
of life.Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
He is like a tree
planted near running water,
That yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
Whatever he does, prospers.
Not so the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.
Reflection on the Scriptures
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It seems a little bit as if God is bartering with his people (in today's first reading). Follow my commandments and all sorts of good material things will happen. You will be prosperous, you will be vindicated (presumably against the charges of your enemies) and your genes will be spread far and wide. Of course this was written for a time when people saw the reward for following God as being mostly in this life, and if bad things happened to a person they were the result of some sin — or even sins of their ancestors.
We are past that way of thinking now (or we should be). All of us know wonderful, faithful people who have had bad fortune with their health or what have you, and watched people whom we don’t admire seemingly have everything good this earth has to offer come their way. So when the first reading speaks of “prosperity” it’s not referring to your bank account. It means the sort of prosperity that comes from having as pure of a soul as you can have. When it speaks of “vindication” it’s heavenly not earthly vindication.
- by Patrick Borchers
Spiritual Reading
Selected Quotes from St. John of the Cross on the Journey of the Soul to God by Contemplation - from The Spiritual Canticle
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Stanza 1. #3. You are a hidden
God. Neither is the sublime communication nor the sensible
awareness of His nearness a sure testimony of His gracious
presence, nor is dryness and a lack of these a reflection of His
absence. #6. A person who wants to find Him should leave all things through affection and will, enter within himself in deepest recollection, and regard things as though they were nonexistence. God is hidden in the soul.
#7. You yourself are His dwelling and His secret chamber and hiding place.
- compiled by James and Tyra Arraj
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