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Looking ahead . . .
I turned 67 this year, and remember that it was not too long ago that I thought that was pretty old! Fortunately, I find myself in good health, and
know this to be a great blessing. But I feel it is time to slow down somewhat . . . to make more time for writing, golfing, camping, gardening, birding, visiting family in other states, etc.
My work at Heartland Center for Spirituality will be scaled back to part-time next year, but I will be continuing to meet with spiritual directees, to maintain and expand our Internet Ministry outreach, and
to assist with programs at the retreat center as needed, so that will keep me busy enough. A Daily Spiritual Seed will continue, as will administering the Discussion Board, presenting occasional webinars, and developing written resources. In fact, one of my priorities will be to explore new possibilities for online outreach. Suggestions are welcomed, so please fee. free to contact me if you have any suggestions.
So that’s it for this year. Thanks again for your support in the past, and know that we continue to depend on your generosity to keep this outreach up and going.
Peace,
Phil St. Romain
Internet Ministry Coordinator
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Message of the
Day
“On occasion I laugh at myself, and at other times I grow weary. An interior stirring incites me to service - I am not capable of any more…doing such lowly little things that it embarrasses me. Were it not for the fact that the Lord accepted my desire, I saw that it had no importance - and I myself made fun of myself.”
From Teresa of Avila: Living By Holy Wit
Reflection for Journaling:
Teresa of Avila encouraged others not to take themselves too seriously. Is there some area of your life where you might be trying too hard and need to go more gently, more lightly? -
Breath Prayer:
I try hard (breathing in )…
Let me trust hard (breathing out)….
(by Sr. Joel Christoph OP)
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WIS 13:1-9; PS 19:2-3, 4-5AB
LK 17:26-37
Jesus said to his disciples:
"As it was in the days of Noah,
so it will be in the days of the Son of Man;
they were eating and drinking,
marrying and giving in marriage up to the day
that Noah entered the ark,
and the flood came and destroyed them all.
Similarly, as it was in the days of Lot:
they were eating, drinking, buying,
selling, planting, building;
on the day when Lot left Sodom,
fire and brimstone
rained from the sky to destroy them all.
So it will be on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
On that day, someone who is on the housetop
and whose belongings are in the house
must not go down to get them,
and likewise one in the field
must not return to what was left behind.
Remember the wife of Lot.
Whoever seeks to preserve his life will lose it,
but whoever loses it will save it.
I tell you, on that night there will be two people in one bed;
one will be
taken, the other left.
And there will be two women grinding meal together;
one will be taken, the other left."
They said to him in reply, "Where, Lord?"
He said to them, "Where the body is,
there also the vultures will gather."
Reflection on the
Scriptures |
God's Day of Judgment is a cause for great joy and reward for those who have waited with patient hope and longing for the Lord Jesus to return again in glory and power. The people in Noah's time ignored the Lord's warning of judgment because their hearts were hardened and they were rebellious towards God. When the great flood swept over the earth, they missed the boat, literally! Whose boat or safety net are you staking your life on - the
world's life-raft to short-lived success and happiness or to the indestructible Ark of God whose foundation is Jesus Christ and his victorious cross? Those whose hope is firmly anchored in heaven will not be disappointed when the day of final judgment comes. They rejoice even now that their names are written in heaven (Luke 10:20) and they look with eager longing for the day when they will see the Lord face to face (Revelation 22:4). Is your hope firmly placed in the Lord Jesus and his return in
glory?
"Lord Jesus Christ, I place all my hope in you because you have redeemed the world by your death on the cross and by your victory over the grave. Help me to never lose sight of the goal of heaven that I may live each day in joyful anticipation of your return in glory."
- from dailyscripture.net Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 44
“God is endless, sovereign Truth,—Wisdom,—Love, not-made; and man’s Soul is a creature in God
which hath the same properties made”
GOD shewed in all the Revelations, oftentimes, that man worketh evermore His will and His worship lastingly without any stinting. And what this work is, was shewed in the First, and that in a marvellous example: for it was shewed in the working of the soul of our blissful Lady, Saint Mary: [that is, the working of] Truth and Wisdom. And how [it is done] I hope by the grace of the Holy Ghost I shall tell, as I saw.
Truth seeth God, and Wisdom beholdeth God, and of these two cometh the third: that is, a holy marvellous delight in God; which is Love. Where Truth and Wisdom are verily, there is Love verily, coming of them both. And all of God’s making: for He is endless sovereign Truth, endless sovereign Wisdom, endless sovereign Love, unmade; and man’s Soul is a creature in God which hath the same properties made, and evermore it doeth that it was made for: it seeth God, it
beholdeth God, and it loveth God. Whereof God enjoyeth in the creature; and the creature in God, endlessly marvelling.
In which marvelling he seeth his God, his Lord, his Maker so high, so great, and so good, in comparison with him that is made, that scarcely the creature seemeth ought to the self. But the clarity and the clearness of Truth and Wisdom maketh him to see and to bear witness that he is made for Love in which God endlessly keepeth him. |
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