Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of
God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.
- Anonymous
(That about covers everything!)
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ACTS 22:30; 23:6-11; PS 16:1-2A AND 5, 7-8, 9-10,
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JN 17:20-26
Lifting up his eyes to heaven, Jesus prayed saying:
"I pray not only for these,
but also for those who will
believe in me through their word,
so that they may all be one,
as you, Father, are in me and I in you,
that they also may be in us,
that the world may believe that you sent me.
And I have given them the glory you gave me,
so that they may be one, as we are one,
I in them and you in me,
that they may be brought to perfection as one,
that the world may know that you sent me,
and that you loved them even as you loved me.
Father, they are your gift to me.
I wish
that where I am they also may be with me,
that they may see my glory that you gave me,
because you loved me before the foundation of the world.
Righteous Father, the world also does not know you,
but I know you, and they know that you sent me.
I made known to them your name and I will make it known,
that the love with which you loved me
may be in them and I in them."
Reflection on the
Scriptures |
Ironically I read
this passage immediately after finishing the new biography of Eunice Kennedy Shriver, “Eunice The Kennedy Who Changed the World” by Eileen McNamera. Eunice was driven by her deep Catholic faith to battle for decades to change society’s treatment of people with disabilities, especially developmental disabilities. To her dying day, she was lobbying Congress from a hospital bed on behalf of people whom she led from being warehoused in institutions to the mainstream. Her better-known brothers left
no legacy as remarkable as her Special Olympics.
Today’s reading should teach us that not only is it okay to work politically, it’s virtually a moral mandate. St. Paul and St. Ignatius would surely have agreed with Edmund Burke, a British parliamentary leader, when he said that “The only thing needed for the triumph of evil is for good men to do
nothing.”
- by Eileen Wirth
Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 51
“He is the Head, and we be His
members.” “Therefore our Father nor may nor will more blame assign to us than to His own Son, precious and worthy Christ” And in this an inward spiritual Shewing of the Lord’s meaning descended into my soul: in which I saw that it behoveth needs to be, by virtue of His great [Goodness] and His own
worship, that His dearworthy Servant, which He loved so much, should be verily and blissfully rewarded, above that he should have been if he had not fallen. Yea, and so far forth, that his falling and his woe, that he hath taken thereby, shall be turned into high and overpassing worship and endless bliss.
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