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Take care of your body as if you were going to live forever; and take care of your soul as if you were
going to die tomorrow.
- St. Augustine (Actually, these two emphases are complementary. How does this speak to you at this time in your
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Gn 1:1-19; Ps 104:1-2a, 5-6, 10 and 12, 24 and 35c
Mk 6:53-56 After making the crossing to the other side of the sea,
Jesus and his disciples came to land at Gennesaret
and tied up there.
As they were leaving the boat, people immediately recognized him.
They scurried about the surrounding country
and began to bring in the sick on mats
to wherever they heard he was.
Whatever villages or towns or countryside he entered,
they laid the sick in the marketplaces
and begged him
that they might touch only the tassel on his cloak;
and as many as touched it were healed.
Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.) Mark 6: 53-56 (The people seek Jesus out)
Without the aid of television, radio, or newspaper advertisements, Jesus’ reputation spread. People have found in him one who can meet their needs, so they search for him. • How convinced are you of your need of God? What do you need most from God?
• Spend time thanking God for graces you usually take for granted.
Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) ____________ BOOK III: OF THE PROGRESS AND PERFECTION OF LOVE Chapter 7: That the charity of saints in this moral life equals, yea sometimes surpasses, that of the blessed. In heaven, Theotimus, the loving attention of the blessed is firm, constant, inviolable, and cannot perish or decrease; their intention is pure and freed from all mixture of any inferior intention: in short, this felicity of seeing God clearly and loving him unchangeably is incomparable. And who would ever equal the pleasure, if there be any, of living amidst the perils, the
continual tempests, the perpetual agitations and viscissitudes which have to be gone through on sea, with the contentment there is of being in a royal palace, where all things are at every wish, yea where delights incomparably surpass every wish? There is then more content, sweetness and perfection in the exercise of sacred love amongst the inhabitants of heaven, than amongst the
pilgrims of this miserable earth. Yet still there have been some so happy in their pilgrimage that their charity has been greater than that of many saints already enjoying the eternal fatherland: for certainly it were strange if the charity of the great S. John, of the Apostles and Apostolic men, were not greater, even while they were detained here below, than that of little children, who, dying simply with the grace of baptism, enjoy immortal glory.
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