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I can say from experience that 95% of knowing the will of God consists in being prepared to do it before you know what it is. - Donald Grey Barnhouse
(Willingness to do God's will: what helps you sustain this disposition?)
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ECCL 3:1-11; PS 144:1B AND 2ABC, 3-4
LK 9:18-22
Once when Jesus was praying in solitude,
and the
disciples were with him,
he asked them, "Who do the crowds say that I am?"
They said in reply, "John the Baptist; others, Elijah;
still others, 'One of the ancient prophets has arisen.'"
Then he said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Peter said in reply, "The Christ of God."
He rebuked them and directed them not to tell this to anyone.
He said, "The Son of Man must suffer
greatly
and be rejected by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed and on the third day be raised."
USCCB Lectionary
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Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain,
2018 (3rd ed.) ____________
Luke 9: 8-22 (Jesus and prayer)
Luke characteristically portrays Jesus as a man of prayer.
Before undertaking major endeavors, Jesus is shown spending time in prayer, a model we should never ignore. In todayÕs reading, prayer precedes Jesus' disclosure to his apostles that he is a suffering redeemer.
* Why do you pray? How has prayer helped you lately?
* Why do you believe Jesus had to "endure many
sufferings, be rejected by the elders, the high priests and the scribes, and be put to death"?
* Pray for the grace to be more centered in the Spirit of
Jesus.
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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
The Intuition of Being
Jim Arraj describes several exercises to cultivate the intuition of being. The most concise is direct examination of the statement, “I am.”
How simple this “I am” appears, but what really is this “I”? We are convinced we know, since we live with our “I” in such intimate terms, but the foundation for the true meaning of the ‘I’ is not simply the “I” itself but it is the “am”. The “I” is an expression, a contraction, of the “am”, but do we know what this “am” is? . . . If we question the “I” in the light of “am”, it can lead us to an
abyss where the very meaning of our “I” seems to crumble and we grow afraid that our “I” is dissolving and there is nothing beyond it.
Thus is the Ego drawn to its roots in Self and the deeper mystery of God, Who is known here not so much as a relational partner, but as the Source of one’s own existence. The Ego that emerges from this encounter becomes radically purified of its identifications with roles and labels, and more firmly established in its true center, who is God, but in a different manner from the
contemplative pathway. Here one proceeds more by exploring the roots of awareness and less through the attraction of the will-to-God in love. Intelligence and will are left out of the experience, to some extent, with awareness predominating.
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