There are many fine things which you mean to do some day, under what you think will
be more favorable circumstances. But the only time that is yours is the present.
- Grenville Kleiser
(What action have you been procrastinating lately? What can you do today -- right now -- to act on this?) |
1 SM 4:1-11; PS 44:10-11, 14-15, 24-25
MK 1:40-45
A leper came to him and kneeling down begged him and said,
"If you wish, you can make me clean."
Moved with pity, he stretched out his hand,
touched the leper, and said to
him,
"I do will it. Be made clean."
The leprosy left him immediately, and he was made clean.
Then, warning him sternly, he dismissed him at once.
Then he said to him, "See that you tell no one anything,
but go, show yourself to the priest
and offer for your cleansing what Moses prescribed;
that will be proof for them."
The man went away and began to publicize the whole matter.
He spread the report abroad
so that it was impossible for Jesus to enter a town
openly.
He remained outside in deserted places,
and people kept coming to him from everywhere.
Reflection on the
Scriptures |
In Samuel, the elders of Israel thought
that bringing the ark into battle would insure their success. As an article in the December, 2007 issue of Smithsonian magazine discusses, the ark was reputed to have tremendous power, since it was an earthly manifestation of God. The Philistines were frightened of the power of the ark, and inspired to fight beyond their normal capabilities. But if the ark was so powerful, why were the Hebrews not successful in this battle against the Philistines? Did they forget that the power of the ark was
directly related to their faithfulness to God’s call to them, that for the ark to be their protector, they in turn needed to surrender themselves to God’s will?
- by Tom Purcell Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 45
“All heavenly things and all earthly things that belong to Heaven are comprehended in these two
judgments”
And to this understanding was the soul led by love and drawn by might in every Shewing: that it is thus our good Lord shewed, and how it is thus in the truth of His great Goodness. And He willeth that we desire to learn it—that is to say, as far as it belongeth to His creature to learn it. For all things that the simple soul understood, God willeth that they be shewed and [made] known. For the things that He will have privy, mightily and wisely Himself
He hideth them, for love. For I saw in the same Shewing that much privity is hid, which may never be known until the time that God of His goodness hath made us worthy to see it; and therewith I am well-content, abiding our Lord’s will in this high marvel. And now I yield me to my Mother, Holy Church, as a simple child oweth.
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