"Desire only Love and walk your days
with the Beloved;
you will radiate with joy, blessing
others with Love's presence;
you will know not loneliness with
Love's Companioning Presence."
- Nan Merrill, Psalms for
Praying (Slowly ponder these words . . . Pray your response in gratitude.) |
Heb 7:25—8:6; Psalm 40:7-8a, 8b-9, 10, 17 Mk 3:7-12 Jesus withdrew toward the sea with his disciples.
A large number of people followed from Galilee and from Judea.
Hearing what he was doing,
a large number of people came to him also from Jerusalem,
from Idumea, from beyond the
Jordan,
and from the neighborhood of Tyre and Sidon.
He told his disciples to have a boat ready for him because of the crowd,
so that they would not crush him.
He had cured many and, as a result, those who had diseases
were pressing upon him to touch him.
And whenever unclean spirits saw him they would fall down before him
and shout, “You
are the Son of God.”
He warned them sternly not to make him known. Reflection on the Scriptures
What I take away from the readings is to renew my own efforts to
carry out my work to the best of my ability, and to remember to care for those around me and for myself in doing that. St. Ignatius said: “Love ought to show itself in deeds more than words.” Jesus did that for us. How can I show love in deeds today? How can I in small ways and big ways find God in all things? Love shown in deeds can quietly ripple out in my life and into the world. Think of how someone showed love to you in a small act of kindness or help and how that love blossomed
inside of you. If I build on smaller acts of love, the everyday deeds of doing a good job, being considerate of others, lending a helping hand when it’s convenient and when it’s not convenient, giving someone grace or another chance. This I can do today and every day. by Carol Zuegner
The Existence of God by Francois Fenelon SECTION
XXXIII - Of veins and arteries
There are in one's body numberless branches of blood-vessels. Some of them carry the blood from the centre to the extreme parts, and are called arteries. Through
those various vessels runs the blood, a liquor soft and oily, and by this oiliness proper to retain the most subtle spirits, just as the most subtle and spirituous essences are preserved in gummy bodies. This blood moistens the flesh, as springs and rivers water the earth; and after it has filtrated in the flesh, it returns to its source, more slowly, and less full of spirits: but it renews, and is again subtilised in that source, in order to circulate without
ceasing.
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