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Praying With Dominic via Zoom book study begins September 16 and continues bi-weekly through December 16, 6:30 - 7:30 Central. Registration and more information via the link below:
https://heartlandspirituality.org/book-study-2/
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The whole idea of compassion is based on a keen awareness of the interdependence of all these living beings, which are all part of one another, and all involved in one another.
- Thomas Merton Be more aware of these connections today. Feel your relationship to other creatures and to God.
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Daily Readings
1 Colossians 1:1-8
Psalm
52:10, 11 Luke 4:38-44 Since we have by an act of mercy been entrusted with this work of administration, there is no weakening on our part. On the contrary, we will have none of the reticence of those who are ashamed, no deceitfulness or watering down the word of God; but the way we commend ourselves to every human being with a conscience is by stating the truth openly in the
sight of God. For it is not ourselves that we are preaching, but Christ Jesus as the Lord, and ourselves as your servants for Jesus’ sake. It is the same God that said, ‘Let there be light shining out of darkness’, who has shone in our minds to radiate the light of the knowledge of God’s glory, the glory on the face of Christ.
We are only the earthenware jars that hold this treasure, to make it clear that such an overwhelming power comes from God
and not from us.
Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.) Luke 4: 31-37 (Jesus cures a demoniac) Outside his hometown Jesus finds people more open to his message and his healing. In today’s reading we learn that he teaches with authority, quite a novelty compared to the carefully measured words of the Jewish authorities. The Holy Spirit, the source of Jesus’ power and authority, silences other spirits of fragmentation, leaving the people amazed. • Picture the scene described in today’s reading from
the viewpoint of a member of the crowd, Observe Jesus’ encounter with the demoniac; hear the demon object to Jesus; see Jesus’ face as he touches the man. Listen to the people as they say, “What is there about him?” Let your spirit be buoyed by his Spirit. • Pray for the grace to be more self-confident.
Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) ____________ BOOK VI: OF THE EXERCISES OF LOVE IN PRAYER
Complacency for St. Francis de Sales means contentment to simply be with God, to rest in God. Chapter 6: That contemplation
is made without labour, which is the third difference between it and meditation. Now whereas to attain unto contemplation we stand ordinarily in need of hearing the word of God, of having spiritual discourse and conference with others, like the ancient anchorites, of reading, praying, meditating, singing canticles, conceiving good thoughts,--for this reason, holy contemplation being the end and aim of all these exercises, they
are all reduced to it, and those who practise them are called contemplatives, as also the occupation itself is called a contemplative life. This is on account of the action of our understanding, by which we regard the truth of the divine beauty and goodness with an amorous attention, that is, with a love which makes us attentive, or, with an attention which proceeds from love, and augments the love which we have for the infinite sweetness of our
Lord.
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