…people mostly pray as if there were no God with them, or
as if He did not heed their prayers. Let us ascribe to the Lord at least the same amount of attention that good parents show to the requests of their children, at least that provident and attentive love which good parents have for their children.
- John of Kronstadt
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TB 11:5-17; PS 146:1B-2, 6C-7, 8-9A, 9BC-10
MK 12:35-37
As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said,
"How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David?
David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit,
said:
The Lord said to my lord,
'Sit at my right hand
until I place your enemies under your feet.'
David himself calls him 'lord';
so how is he his son?"
The great crowd heard this with delight.
Reflection on the
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We accept Jesus as fulfilling the expectation for a descendant of house of David who becomes the “king of Israel,” but in a way that transcends what anyone had expected before his death and resurrection and the outpouring of the Holy Spirit. All this is a reminder to us who follow Jesus that he is always much more than we understand. What the Father has done through the Son become flesh as Jesus of Nazareth is always more than we can fully grasp. The result is nothing less than
what St. Paul calls a new creation. The only right response to that revelation of God’s love is our love of the Father and every other creature that we meet.
- by Dennis Hamm,
S.J. Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 39
“Sin is the sharpest scourge. . . .
By contrition we are made clean, by compassion we are made ready, and by true longing towards God we are made worthy” Full preciously our Lord keepeth us when it seemeth to us that we are near forsaken and cast away for our sin and because we have deserved it. And because of meekness that we get hereby, we are raised well-high in God’s sight by His grace, with so great contrition, and also compassion, and
true longing to God. Then they be suddenly delivered from sin and from pain, and taken up to bliss, and made even high saints.
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