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“I had heard many say that they wanted to worship God in their own way and did not need a church in which to praise Him, nor a body of people with whom to associate themselves. But I did not agree to this. My very experience as a radical, my whole make-up, led me to want to
associate myself with others, with the masses, in loving and praising God.”
- Dorothy Day, founder of the Catholic Worker movement -
(Why belong to a Christian community? How important is this to you?)
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Daily Readings
MI 7:14-15, 18-20; PS 85:2-4, 5-6, 7-8
MT 12:46-50
While Jesus was speaking to the crowds,
his mother and his brothers appeared outside,
wishing to speak with him.
Someone told him, “Your mother and your brothers are standing outside,
asking to speak with you.”
But he said in reply to the one who told him,
“Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?”
And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said,
“Here are my mother and my brothers.
For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father
is my brother, and sister, and
mother.”
Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.) Matthew 12: 46-50 (The family of Christ) "Your children are not
your children,” Gibran wrote. ‘They are the sons and daughters of Life’s longing for itself.” In today’s reading, Jesus affirms the primacy of the family of God over blood relations. • Have you left the home of your youth emotionally as well as physically? Are you still living your life according to adolescent patterns? • What kind of esteem do you seek from family members? How important is this to you? Why? • Pray for the grace to see all people as children of God.
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.
By
complacency our soul, like Gideon's fleece, is wholly filled with heavenly dew, and this dew belongs to the fleece because it falls upon it, and again the fleece is the dew's because it is steeped in it and receives virtue from it. Which belongs more to the other, the pearl to the oyster or the oyster to the pearl? The pearl is the oyster's because she drew it to her, but the oyster is the pearl's because it gives her worth and value. Complacency makes us possessors of God, drawing into us his
perfections, but it makes us also possessed of God, applying and fastening us to his perfections.
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