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To grow is to emerge gradually from a land where our vision is limited, where we are seeking and governed by egotistical pleasure, by our sympathies and antipathies, to a land of unlimited horizons and universal love, where we will be open to every person and desire their happiness.
- Jean Vanier
(How does your own journey resonate with this principle?)
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ACTS 14:5-18; PS 115:1-2, 3-4, 15-16
JN 14:21-26
Jesus said to his disciples:
"Whoever has my commandments and observes them
is the one who loves me.
Whoever loves me will be loved by my Father,
and I will love him and reveal myself to him."
Judas, not the Iscariot, said to him,
"Master, then what happened that you will reveal yourself to us
and not to the world?"
Jesus answered and said to him,
"Whoever loves me will keep my word,
and my Father will love him,
and we will come to him and make our dwelling with him.
Whoever does not love me does not keep my words;
yet the word you hear is not mine
but that of the Father who sent me.
"I have told you this while I am with you.
The Advocate, the Holy Spirit
whom the Father will send in my nameB
he will teach you everything
and remind you of all that I told you."
USCCB Lectionary
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Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain, 2018 (3rd ed.)
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John 14:21-26 (God dwells within us)
Today’s reading reminds us that much about us is a mystery. We can never fully understand ourselves, for there are depths in each of us that only God can plumb. God alone knows the truth about us, so we should be slow to judge ourselves or, worse, to take a false pride in ourselves and our accomplishments.
• How do you understand the verse “I will love him and reveal myself to him”? How does God reveal himself to you?
• Do you believe that you know yourself? Do you have a sense of mystery about yourself?
• Spend time thanking God for the miracle that you are.
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Treatise
on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
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BOOK I: CONTAINING A PREPARATION FOR THE WHOLE TREATISE
Chapter 2: How the will variously governs the powers of the soul.
The will also exercises a certain power over the understanding and memory, for of many things which the understanding has power to understand and the memory has power to remember, the will determines those to which she would have her faculties apply themselves, or from which divert themselves. It is true she cannot manage or range them so absolutely as she does the hands, feet or tongue, on account of the sensitive
faculties, especially the fancy, which do not obey the will with a prompt and infallible obedience, and which are necessarily required for the operations of the understanding and memory: but yet the will moves, employs and applies these faculties at her pleasure though not so firmly and constantly that the light and variable fancy does not often divert and distract them, so that as the Apostle cries out: "I do not the good which I desire, but the evil which I hate." So we are often forced to
complain that we think not of the good which we love, but the evil which we hate.
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