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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 first service one owes to others in the fellowship consists in listening to them. Just as love of God begins in listening to His Word, so the beginning of love for the brethren is learning to listen to them. It is God's love for us that He not only gives us His Word but lends us His ear. So it is His work that we do for others when we learn to listen to
them.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer (Set aside your preconceptions and listen . . . What surprising encounters await you this
day!)
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Daily Readings
Colossians 3:1-11
Psalm
145:2-3, 10-11, 12-13ab Luke 6:20-26 Fixing his eyes on his disciples Jesus said:
‘How happy are you who are poor: yours is the kingdom of God.
Happy you who are hungry now: you shall be satisfied.
Happy you who weep now: you shall laugh.
Happy are you when people hate you, drive you out, abuse you, denounce your name as criminal, on account of the Son of Man. Rejoice when that day comes and dance for joy, for then your reward will be great in heaven. This was the way their ancestors treated the prophets.
‘But alas for you who are rich: you are having your consolation now.
Alas for you who have your fill now: you shall go
hungry.
Alas for you who laugh now: you shall mourn and weep.
‘Alas for you when the world speaks well of you! This was the way their ancestors treated the false prophets.’
Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.) Luke 6: 20-26 (Blest are the poor) Luke has simplified the list of beatitudes dlescribed in Matthew, eliminating material that his non-Jewish audience would not have properly appreciated. Nevertheless, we are left with blessings andl curses which should deeply challenge us. • Which of the beatitudes do you find most consoling? Why? • Which of the ‘woes” disturb you most?
Why? How does this challenge you to change? • Pray for the grace to be willing to change for the sake of the kingdom.
Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622) ____________ BOOK VI: OF THE EXERCISES OF LOVE IN PRAYER Chapter 7: Of the loving recollection of the soul in contemplation.
I speak not here, Theotimus, of the recollection
by which such as are about to pray, place themselves in God's presence, entering into themselves, and as one would say bringing their soul into their hearts, there to speak with God; for this recollection is made by love's command, which, provoking us to prayer, moves us to take this means of doing it well, so that we ourselves make this withdrawing of our spirit. But the recollection of which I mean to speak is not made by love's command but by love itself, that is, we do not make it by free
choice, for it is not in our power to have it when we please, and does not depend on our care, but God at his pleasure works it in us by his most holy grace. The Blessed Mother (S.) Teresa of Jesus says: "He who has written that the prayer of recollection is made as when a hedgehog or tortoise draws itself within itself, said well, saying that these beasts draw themselves in when they please, whereas recollection is not in our will, but comes to us only when it pleases God to do us this
grace."
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