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- A prayer for today:
O abyss, O eternal Godhead, O sea profound, what more could you give me than yourself? You are the fire that burns without being consumed; you consume in your heat all the soul’s self-love; you are the fire which takes away cold; with your light you illuminate me so that I may know all your truth. Clothe me, clothe me
with yourself, eternal truth, so that I may run this mortal life with true obedience, and with the light of your most holy faith.
… Catherine of Siena
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Daily Readings
Ez 28:1-10; Deuteronomy 32:26-28, 30,
35CD-36AB Mt 19:23-30 Jesus said to his disciples:
"Amen, I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich
to enter the Kingdom of heaven.
Again I say to you,
it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a
needle
than for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God."
When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said,
"Who then can be saved?"
Jesus looked at them and said, "For men this is impossible,
but for God all things are
possible."
Then Peter said to him in reply,
"We have given up everything and followed you.
What will there be for us?"
Jesus said to them, "Amen, I say to you
that you who have followed me, in the new age,
when the Son of Man is seated on his throne of
glory,
will yourselves sit on twelve thrones,
judging the twelve tribes of Israel.
And everyone who has given up houses or brothers or sisters
or father or mother or children or lands
for the sake of my name will receive a hundred times more,
and will inherit
eternal life.
But many who 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.) Matthew 19:23-30 (Wealth and salvation) Monetary wealth is
attractive because it affords us numerous opportunities for entertainment, education, and influence unavailable to the poor. Thus money is a primary competitor with God for the hearts of people. In today’s reading Jesus promises a wealth of experience to those who embrace his way. • “The state of life is most happy where superfluities are not required and necessities are not wanting,” Plutarch wrote. What are some of the superfluities
of time, commitments, and possessions that clutter your life? How willing are you to part with these? • Make a list of possessions you believe are necessary and important for anyone seeking to grow closer to Jesus.
Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) ____________ Chapter 3: That holy complacency gives our heart to God, and makes us feel a perpetual desire in fruition.
The
damned are in eternal movement without any mixture of rest; we mortals who are yet in this pilgrimage have, now movement, now rest, in our affections; the Blessed ever have repose in their movements and movement in their repose; only God has repose without movement, because he is sovereignly a pure and substantial act. Now although according to the ordinary condition of this mortal life we have not repose in movement, yet still, when we practise the acts of holy love, we find repose in the
movement of our affections, and movement in the repose of the complacency which we take in our well-beloved, receiving hereby a foretaste of the future felicity to which we aspire.
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