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If my life is surrendered to God, all is well. Let me not grab it back, as though it were in peril in His hand but would be safer in mine!
- Elisabeth Elliot
(What are you needing to surrender to God's care these days?)
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ACTS 19:1-8; PS 68:2-3AB, 4-5ACD, 6-7AB
JN 16:29-33
The disciples said to Jesus,
"Now you are talking plainly, and not in any figure of speech.
Now we realize that you know everything
and that you do not need to have anyone question you.
Because of this we believe that you came from God."
Jesus answered them, "Do you believe now?
Behold, the hour is coming and has arrived
when each of you will be scattered to his own home
and you will leave me alone.
But I am not alone, because the Father is with me.
I have told you this so that you might have peace in me.
In the world you will have trouble,
but take courage, I have conquered the world."
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 16:29-33 (The apostles’ desertion prophesied)
Many times Jesus’ disciples struggled to comprehend the meaning of his words. When, at the Last Supper, they believe that they finally understand him, Jesus sees through the shallowness of their comprehension. Faith in him without acceptance of the suffering that will accompany faith has been a problem for Christians from the beginning.
• What are some of the more urgent issues facing the Christian community to which you belong? How are you struggling to help work through these issues?
• Spend some time with the verse “I have told you this SO that you might have peace in me.” Allow that peace to pervade your being.
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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 3: How the will variously governs the sensual appetite
To conclude, this sensual appetite in plain truth is a rebellious subject, seditious, restive, and we must confess we cannot so defeat it that it does not rise again, encounter and assault the reason; yet the will has such a strong hand over it that she is able, if she please, to bridle it, break its designs and repulse it, since not to consent to its suggestions is a sufficient repulse. We cannot hinder
concupiscence from conceiving, but we can from bringing forth and accomplishing, sin.
(Note: concupiscence = strong desires, especially of a sexual nature)
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