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Message of the Day
I will trust Him. Whatever, wherever I am, I can never be thrown away. If I am in sickness, my sickness may serve Him; in perplexity, my perplexity may serve Him; if I am in sorrow, my sorrow may serve Him. My sickness, or perplexity, or sorrow may be necessary causes of some great end, which is quite beyond us.
- John Henry Newman
(Nothing can separate us from the love of God poured out in Jesus Christ. Rm. 8: 38-39.)
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Readings of the Day
- http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
1 SM 1:1-8; PS 116:12-13, 14-17, 18-19; MK 1:14-20
R. To you, Lord, I will offer a sacrifice of praise.How shall I make a return to the LORD
for all the good he has done for me?
The cup of salvation I will take up,
and I will call upon the name of the LORD.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people.
Precious in the eyes of the LORD
is the death of his faithful ones.
O LORD, I am your servant;
I am your servant, the son of your handmaid;
you have loosed my bonds.
My vows to the LORD I will pay
in the presence of all his people,
In the courts of the house of the LORD,
in your midst, O Jerusalem.
Reflection on the Scriptures
- http://www.preacherexchange.com/daily_bread.htm
They left their nets and followed him.
Jesus’ invitation to us is to follow him: to hear his teaching, to heed his commandments, to do as he does. I don’t recall Jesus inviting us to worship him. Worship is good, but if we stop at worship we’re missing the point. Think of any important discovery -- electricity, vaccines, computers. We don’t adorn our homes with images of Ben Franklin or wear syringes around our necks, or bow down in front of our laptop screens. We appropriate these discoveries and use them to make our lives better. Jesus came to reveal the nature of God, our relationship to God, how we are to live to manifest that relationship, a part of which is worship and a great part of which is doing good, living love, being godly.
Lord, help us to be like you.
- by Paige Byrne Shortal
Spiritual Reading
The Sparkling Stone, by St. John Rusybroeck (1293-1381)
If a person would have fruition of God, three things are needful thereto; these are, true peace, inward silence, and loving adherence.
Whosoever would find true peace between himself and God must love God in such a way that he can, with a free heart, renounce for the glory of God everything which he does or loves inordinately, or which he possesses, or can possess, contrary to the glory of God. This is the first thing which is needful to all people.
- Chapter 13. How we ought to have fruition of God.
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