Message of 7-10-24

Published: Wed, 07/10/24

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Wednesday: July 10, 2024

Message of the Day

If you love truth, be a lover of silence. Silence, like the sunlight will illuminate you in God.
- St. Isaac - 7th Century Hermit Monk

(Silence lets things settle within and brings perspective. How can you have more time for silence in your life?)

Readings of the Day

Hos 10:1-3, 7-8, 12; Ps 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7

Mt 10:1-7

Jesus summoned his Twelve disciples
and gave them authority over unclean spirits to drive them out
and to cure every disease and every illness.
The names of the Twelve Apostles are these:
first, Simon called Peter, and his brother Andrew;
James, the son of Zebedee, and his brother John;
Philip and Bartholomew,
Thomas and Matthew the tax collector;
James, the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddeus;
Simon the Cananean, and Judas Iscariot
who betrayed Jesus.

Jesus sent out these Twelve after instructing them thus,
“Do not go into pagan territory or enter a Samaritan town.
Go rather to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’”

USCCB lectionary

Reflection on the Scripture

Jesus “summoned His twelve disciples and gave them authority to expel unclean spirits and to cure sickness and disease of every kind.” —Matthew 10:1

Thus, Jesus commanded us to make disciples of all nations (Mt 28:19). When we live as His disciples by imitating Him, we become “other Christs.” We fill the world with Jesus and thereby help the Church become “the fullness of Him Who fills the universe in all its parts” (Eph 1:23). St. Teresa of Avila taught that Jesus has no hands but ours, no feet but ours, no voices but ours, etc. How can Jesus and the Church be strongly present to people who don’t acknowledge Jesus’ presence, listen to Him, or go to Church? You as disciples of Christ are His “walking tabernacles.” You bring Jesus and His Body, the Church, to those “without hope and without God in the world” (Eph 2:12).

Be other Christs. Bring hope and life to the lost, suffering, and enslaved. Be His disciples.

Prayer: Father, I offer my body and myself to You (Rm 12:1).

Promise: “It is time to seek the Lord, till He come and rain down justice upon you.” —Hos 10:12

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Spiritual Reading

Readings from Jesus Alive in Our Lives, by Philip St. Romain. Ave Maria Press, 1985. Contemplative Ministries, Inc. 2011.

Part Three, Gift of the Spirit

Chapter 6: The Gift of Tongues (Glossalalia)

- Selected quotes

In Christianity today, as in the early Church (it seems to have not been widely manifest for centuries in between), speaking in tongues is generally associated with charismatic, or pentecostal spirituality, where we see it manifesting in three distinct ways:

1. The person praying in an unknown language is actually speaking a human language that another person can understand. This is very rare, but it may have been the kind of tongue-speaking mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles 2:3-12.

2. The person praying in tongues is speaking syllables that constitute no known human language but that serve as a catalyst to open this person or another to a prophetic message from God. This is what Saint Paul encourages in 1 Corinthians 14:13-19. Tongue-speaking for purposes of prophetic enrichment can still be noted at most charismatic/pentecostal prayer meetings.

3. The purpose of this prayer is the inner healing and spiritual edification of the individual praying. Such tongue-speaking is often called a prayer language. It may manifest spontaneously during prayer times and throughout the day. This impulse to pray in tongues can be suppressed, or the individual may choose to pray silently or aloud. We read of this type of prayer in many places in scripture (see, for example, Romans 8:26-27 and 1 Corinthians 14:1-2, 18-19.)

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