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Message of the Day
“You must choose between your attachments and your happiness. You cannot have both. The moment you pick up an attachment, your heart is thrown out of kilter and your ability to live a joyful carefree life is destroyed.”
Anthony de Mello, “The Way to Love”
(What attachment has been keeping your from being truly happy? Resolve to let it go by not indulging it in any way, and by focusing more on loving in this moment.)
Readings of the Day
- http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
2 SM 5:1-7, 10; PS 89:20, 21-22, 25-26; MK 3:22-30
R. My faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him.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.”
“My faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him,
and through my name shall his horn be exalted.
I will set his hand upon the sea,
his right hand upon the rivers.”
Reflection on the Scriptures
- http://www.preacherexchange.com/daily_bread.htm
And if a house is divided against itself, that house will not be able to stand.
If we substitute “government” or “church” or “family” for “house,” we have countless examples of the truth of this statement. Unfortunately, our church has become more and more divided between those who emphasize orthodoxy and tradition and those who emphasize social justice and ministry to the poor without question. These two groups often seem mutually exclusive, resulting in accusations and infighting, with faithful people leaving the church, scandalized and embittered. The solution is to find common ground and return to the core of Jesus’ message of love for all.
Lord, for wisdom and forgiveness, we pray.
- by Portia Clark
Spiritual Reading
The Sparkling Stone, by St. John Rusybroeck (1293-1381)
There are still three other points, which are higher still, and which establish a man and make him able to enjoy and to feel God continually, if it be His good will to have it so.
The first of these points is to rest in Him Whom one enjoys; that is, where love is overcome by the lover, and love is taken possession of by the lover, in bare Essential Love. There love has fallen in love with the lover, and each is all to the other, in possession and in rest.
From this there follows the second: and this is called a falling asleep in God; that is, when the spirit immerses itself, and knows not how, nor where, nor in what it is.
And therefrom follows the last point that can be put into words, that is, when the spirit beholds a Darkness into which it cannot enter with the reason. And there it feels itself dead and lost to itself, and one with God without difference and without distinction. And when it feels itself one with God, then God Himself is its peace and its enjoyment and its rest. And this is an unfathomable abyss wherein man must die to himself in blessedness, and must live again in virtues, whenever love and its stirring demand it. Lo! if you feel these six points within you, then you feel all that I have, or could have, said before. And introversion is as easy to you, and contemplation and fruition are as ready to you, as your life according to nature. And from these riches there comes that common life of which I promised to speak to you at the beginning.
- Chapter 13. How we ought to have fruition of God.
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