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We plant seeds that will flower as results in our lives, so best to remove the weeds of anger, avarice, envy and doubt, that peace and abundance may manifest for all.
- Dorothy Day (What kinds of "weeds" are distorting the flow of God's love in your life? What steps can you take to remove them?)
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Daily Readings
Acts 1:15-17, 20-26; PS
113:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8
Jn 17:1-11
1 When Jesus had spoken these words, he lifted up his eyes to heaven and said, "Father, the hour has come; glorify your Son that the Son may glorify you, 2 since you have given him power over all flesh, to give eternal life to all whom you have given him. 3 And this is
eternal life, that they know you the only true God, and Jesus Christ whom you have sent. 4 I glorified you on earth, having accomplished the work which you gave me to do; 5 and now, Father, glorify me in your own presence with the glory which I had with you before the world was made. 6 "I have manifested your name to the men whom you gave me out of the world; they were yours, and you gave them to me, and they have kept your word. 7 Now they know that everything that you have given me is from
you; 8 for I have given them the words which you gave me, and they have received them and know in truth that I came from you; and they have believed that you sent me. 9 I am praying for them; I am not praying for the world but for those whom you have given me, for they are yours; 10 all mine are yours, and yours are mine, and I am glorified in them. 11 And now I am no more in the world, but they are in the world, and I am coming to you. Holy Father, keep them in your name, which you have given
me, that they may be one, even as we are one.
Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.) John 17:1-11 (Jesus prays to the Father) During the next few
days we will reflect on the long, beautiful prayer of Jesus as he anticipates his hour of passion and glory. Through this prayer, John continues to teach us the nature of the relationship between Jesus, the Father, and humanity. • How is Christ glorified in humanity? How is he glorified in your life? • The goal of Ignatius of Loyola was to do all for the greater honor and glory of God. What do
you think of this goal? Is this your goal?
Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) ____________ BOOK V: OF THE TWO PRINCIPAL EXERCISES OF HOLY LOVE WHICH CONSIST IN COMPLACENCY AND BENEVOLENCE Chapter 1: Of the sacred complacency of love; and first of what it
consists.
Thus approving the good which we see in God, and rejoicing in it, we make the act of love which is called complacency; for we please ourselves in the divine pleasure infinitely more than in our own, and it is this love which gave so much content to the Saints when they could recount the perfections of their well-beloved, and which caused them to declare with so much delight that God was
God. Know ye, said they, that the Lord he is God. O God, my God, my God, thou art my God. I have said to the Lord: Thou art my God. Thou art the God of my heart, and my God is my portion for ever. [219] He is the God of our heart by this complacency, since by it our heart embraces him and makes him its own: he is our inheritance, because by this act, we enjoy the goods which are in God, and, as from an inheritance, we draw from it all pleasure and content: by means of this complacency we
spiritually drink and eat the perfections of the Divinity, for we make them our own and draw them into our hearts.
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