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Message of the Day
“For the Christian whom the Spirit has led to awareness of the true self, the Son is all in all (Col. 3: 11). Everywhere, the Father’s gaze rests on the Son and likewise the Son’s rests on the Father; everywhere, there is only the manifestation of God to himself and in himself in the blessed Trinity of Persons. Thus, no one can be a stranger to any other.”
- Henri Le Saux, “Saccidananda,” 20th C -
(You might say that this is the inner fruit wrought by Christ. How does this passage speak to you?)
Readings of the Day
- http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
1 JN 2:12-17; PS 96:7-8A, 8B-9, 10; LK 2:36-40
R.
(11a) Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice!Give to the LORD, you families of nations,
give to the LORD glory and praise;
give to the LORD the glory due his name!
Bring gifts, and enter his courts;
worship the LORD in holy attire.
Tremble before him, all the earth.
Say among the nations: The LORD is king.
He has made the world firm, not to be moved;
he governs the peoples with equity.
Reflection on the Scriptures
- http://www.preacherexchange.com/daily_bread.htm
She never left the temple, but worshiped night and day with fasting and prayer.
Though the world around us may be packing up the Christmas decorations and moving on, our celebration is in full swing. We certainly cannot relegate this grand mystery to just one day. We retain the wonder and the joy of Christmas. Like the prophetess Anna, we give thanks and ponder the growth and journey of the child as he grows wise and strong. We recount Jesus’ childhood and early life and wonder at the gift of this child who will be our redemption. While many of the festivities and goodies may be finished, we are merely seeing the start of the revelation of the greatest present we have received.
For the continued joy and wonder of Christmas, we pray.
Patricia Russell
Spiritual Reading
The Sparkling Stone, by St. John Rusybroeck (1293-1381)
The outpouring touch of God quickens us with life in the spirit, and fulfills us with grace, and enlightens our reason, and teaches us to know truth and to discern the virtues, and keeps us stable in the Presence of God, with such a great strength that we are able to endure all the tasting, all the feeling, and all the outpouring gifts of God without our spirits failing us. But the indrawing-touch of God demands of us, that we should be one with God, and go forth from ourselves, and die into blessedness, that is, into the Eternal Love Which embraces the Father and the Son in one fruition. And therefore when we have climbed with Jesus on to the mountain of our bare thought; and if, then, we follow Him with a single and simple gaze, with inward pleasure, and with fruitive inclination, we feel the fierce heat of the Holy Ghost, burning and melting us into the Unity of God. For when we are one with the Son, and lovingly return towards our Beginning, then we hear the voice of the Father, touching us and drawing us inward; for He says to all His chosen in His Eternal Word: This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased. For you should know that the Father with the Son, and the Son with the Father, have conceived an eternal satisfaction in regard to this: that the Son should take upon Himself our manhood, and die, and bring back all the chosen to their Beginning.
- Chapter 12. Of the transfiguration of Christ on Mount Thabor
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