Message of 7-28-17

Published: Fri, 07/28/17

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Friday: July 28, 2017
Message of the Day
 
“My last will and testament? What are you talking about? Thank God, I haven’t a penny left in the world.”
- St. Lawrence O’Toole

“Never did material things satisfy my heart; I felt something else, very great in the depths of my heart.”
- Concepcion Cabrere de Armida

(What kind of attachment do you have to material things? Resolve to make God your treasure this day.)
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Daily Readings
EX 20:1-17;   PS 19:8, 9, 10, 11

MT 13:18-23

Jesus said to his disciples:
"Hear the parable of the sower.
The seed sown on the path is the one who hears the word of the Kingdom
without understanding it,
and the Evil One comes and steals away
what was sown in his heart.
The seed sown on rocky ground
is the one who hears the word and receives it at once with joy.
But he has no root and lasts only for a time.
When some tribulation or persecution comes because of the word,
he immediately falls away.
The seed sown among thorns is the one who hears the word,
but then worldly anxiety and the lure of riches choke the word
and it bears no fruit.
But the seed sown on rich soil
is the one who hears the word and understands it,
who indeed bears fruit and yields a hundred or sixty or thirtyfold."

 
Reflection on the Scriptures
Today’s passage from Exodus comes as a reminder, down through the ages.

You shall not carve idols for yourselves
In the shape of anything in the sky above
Or on the earth below or in the waters beneath the earth . . .

Our images can awaken us to the presence of God . . . we just need to remember not to slip into making idols of them. 

- by Rev. Steve Ryan
 
Spiritual Reading
Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of Norwich 

Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 41

I am the Ground of thy beseeching.

AFTER this our Lord shewed concerning Prayer. In which Shewing I see two conditions in our Lord’s signifying: one is rightfulness, another is sure trust.

But yet oftentimes our trust is not full: for we are not sure that God heareth us, as we think because of our unworthiness, and because we feel right nought, (for we are as barren and dry oftentimes after our prayers as we were afore); and this, in our feeling our folly, is cause of our weakness. For thus have I felt in myself.

And all this brought our Lord suddenly to my mind, and shewed these words, and said: I am Ground of thy beseeching: first it is my will that thou have it; and after, I make thee to will it; and after, I make thee to beseech it and thou beseechest it. How should it then be that thou shouldst not have thy beseeching?
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