The Daily Reader for Contemplative Living: Excerpts from the Works of Father Thomas Keating, by Thomas Keating and S. Stephanie Iachetta. Continuum, 2009.
This work brings together for each day of the year three prayer practices for contemplative living: first, a brief "active prayer"; second, spiritual reading; and, third, Lectio Divina. The brief introductory prayer sentences are from various sources - the Bible and traditional prayers of the church or of well-known spiritual writers. The spiritual readings come from eleven of Father Keatings books and one audiotape, with a
month's worth of readings derived from each work. Each day's entry concludes with a brief selection from the Bible, or Lectio Divina.
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Saint of the Week
Image from St. Angela's incorrupt body.
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: January 8. 1248 - 1309.
Some saints show marks of holiness very early. Not Angela! Born of a leading family in Foligno, Italy, she became immersed in the quest for wealth and social position. As a wife and mother, she continued this life of
distraction.
Around the age of 40, she recognized the emptiness of her life and sought God’s help in the Sacrament of Penance. Her Franciscan confessor helped Angela to seek God’s pardon for her previous life and to dedicate herself to prayer and the
works of charity.
Shortly after her conversion, her husband and children died. Selling most of her possessions, she entered the Secular Franciscan Order. She was alternately absorbed by meditating on the crucified Christ and by serving the poor of Foligno as
a nurse and beggar for their needs. Other women joined her in a religious community.
At her confessor’s advice, Angela wrote her Book of Visions and Instructions. In it she recalls some of the temptations she suffered after her conversion; she also expresses her thanks to God for the Incarnation of Jesus. This book and her
life earned for Angela the title “Teacher of Theologians.” She was beatified in 1693, and canonized in 2013.
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Mr. Johnson was overweight, so his doctor put him on a diet.
He said, I want you to eat regularly for two days, then skip a day, and repeat this procedure for two weeks. The next time I see you, you should have lost at least five pounds.
When Mr. Johnson returned, he shocked the doctor by having dropped almost twenty pounds.
Why, thats amazing! the doctor told him. You did this just by following my instructions?
The slimmed down Mr. Johnson nodded. Ill tell you, though, I thought I was going to drop dead that third day
