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The first holy truth in God 101 is that men and women of true faith have always had to accept the mystery of God's identity and love and ways. I hate that, but it's the truth.
- Anne Lamott
(Accepting mystery doesn't mean we know nothing of/about it, only that we do not do so completely. Is that not so with regard to almost everything we think we
know?)
Christianity and Spirituality monthly forum
June 6: 7:30 - 8:30 p.m. CDT
Topic: Keeping the First Great Commandment
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Daily Readings
1 Pt 1:10-16; Ps 98:1,
2-3ab, 3cd-4
Mk 10:28-31
Peter began to say to Jesus,
"We have given up everything and followed you."
Jesus said, "Amen, I say to you,
there is no one who has given up house or brothers or sisters
or mother or father or children or lands
for my sake and for the sake of the Gospel
who will not receive a hundred times more now in
this present age:
houses and brothers and sisters
and mothers and children and lands,
with persecutions, and eternal life in the age to come.
But many that are first will be last,
and the last will be first."
Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.) Mark 10:28-31 (The last shall be first) Many people today
believe that the rewards for a follower of Jesus are reserved for the next life. But Jesus promises that following him will also bring blessings in this life, though not without suffering. • Do you believe that following Jesus is the best way to live your life? Why? Why not? • What are some
rewards you experience from following Jesus? What are some of the sufferings? • Thank God for the gift of life.
Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) ____________ Chapter 2: How by complacency we are made as little infants at our saviour's breasts. O God! how happy the soul is who takes pleasure in knowing and fully knowing that God is God, and that his goodness is an infinite goodness! For this heavenly spouse, by this gate of complacency, enters into us and sups with us and we with him. We feed ourselves with his sweetness by the pleasure which we take therein, and satiate our heart in the divine perfections by the delight we take in them: and this repast is a supper by reason of the repose which follows it,
complacency making us sweetly rest in the sweetness of the good which delights us, and with which we feed our heart; for as you know, Theotimus, the heart is fed with that which delights it, whence in our French tongue we say that such a one is fed with honour, another with riches, as the wise man said that the mouth of fools feedeth on foolishness, [222] and the sovereign wisdom protests that his meat, that is his pleasure, is to do the will of him that sent him. [223] In conclusion the
physician's aphorism is true--what is relished, nourishes: and the philosophers--what pleases, feeds.
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