Message of 1-21-14

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Message of the Day

“For it is the nature of love, to love when it feels itself loved, and to love all things loved of its beloved. So when the soul has by degrees known the love of its Creator towards it, it loves Him, and, loving Him, loves all things whatsoever that God loves.”
 - St. Catherine of Siena

(Hence, the primacy of the first great commandment. Take time to love and be loved by God this day.)

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1 SM 16:1-13;    PS 89:20, 21-22, 27-28;    MK 2:23-28

R. I have found David, my servant.

Once you spoke in a vision,
and to your faithful ones you said:
“On a champion I have placed a crown;
over the people I have set a youth.”

“I have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him,
That my hand may be always with him,
and that my arm may make him strong.”

“He shall say of me, ‘You are my father,
my God, the Rock, my savior.’
And I will make him the first-born,
highest of the kings of the earth.”

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Reflection on the Scriptures
- http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html

Jesus was a perfect role model for placing rules and traditions in the perspective of God’s long term plan for our salvation.  With all the conversations about sustainability these days, we need to look at what Jesus says about that topic.  That exercise requires us to step outside of mainstream thinking.

- by Barbara Tilley

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Spiritual Reading

Selected Quotes from St. John of the Cross on the Journey of the Soul to God by Contemplation - from The Spiritual Canticle
- http://www.amazon.com/dp/ 1604592826/?tag=christianspiritu

Stanza 11. #1. The sickness of love is not cured except by Your very presence and image.

#10. The soul that loves God lives more in the next life than in this.

- compiled by James and Tyra Arraj

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