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We now live most of our lives from our ego consciousness, which identifies us by descriptions by which we and others say who we are. We need to move our sense of self from the ego at the periphery of our being, to the center of our being — our real self immersed in the core reality of the
Divine.
- Beatrice Bruteau, Centering on our Core Reality
(Experience yourself alive in God this day.)
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NM 21:4B-9; PS 78:1BC-2, 34-35, 36-37, 38; PHIL 2:6-11
JN
3:13-17
Jesus said to Nicodemus:
"No one has gone up to heaven
except the one who has come down from heaven, the Son of Man.
And just as Moses lifted up the serpent in the desert,
so must the Son of Man be lifted up,
so that everyone who believes in him may have eternal
life."
For God so loved the world that he gave his only Son,
so that everyone who believes in him might not perish
but might have eternal life.
For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world,
but that the world might be saved through him.
USCCB Lectionary
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Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain,
2018 (3rd ed.) ____________
God's love has been poured into our hearts through the gift of the Holy Spirit (Romans 5:5). Do you allow God's love to purify your heart and the way your treat others? Do you allow God's love to transform your mind and the way you think of others? Do you allow God's love to conquer every unruly passion and addiction that would enslave you to sin and harmful behavior? The Holy Spirit gives us his seven-fold gifts of wisdom and
understanding, right judgment and courage, knowledge and reverence for God and his ways, and a holy fear in God's presence (see Isaiah 11) that we may live God's way of life and serve in the power and strength of his enduring love and mercy. Do you thirst for new life in the Spirit?
"Lord Jesus Christ, your death brought life for us. Fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may walk in freedom and joy as a child of God and as an heir with Christ of an eternal inheritance."
(from
dailyscripture.net today, Exaltation of the Holy Cross)
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God and I: Exploring the Connections between God, Self and Ego, by Philip St. Romain, 2016 (2nd
ed.) ____________ Chapter 8: Mystical Union: Self and God
Prayer of Union and Beyond
What seems likely is that those who are drawn into deeper contemplative prayer become less Egoic overall. Their prayer acclimates them to non-reflective consciousness, and teaches them to live in this manner even outside the formal times of prayer.
The open awareness, intuitive intelligence and detached willingness that characterizes non-reflective consciousness predominates as their normative state, with promptings from the Spirit influencing their actions through the day. They can still operate Egoically, if necessary, for life will continue to call forth times where intentional focus is required. But when the task is done, the awareness, intelligence and will invested in the Ego settles back into non-reflective openness and readiness.
Such contemplatives live in the Self-God zone or ground of consciousness as their ordinary state. They have undergone deep religious conversion and so enjoy “being-in-love,” as Lonergan put it, without interruption. Hardback, paperback, eBook and free preview versions.
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