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Nothing is so false as defining ourselves in terms of our activity,
identifying ourselves with what we do.
The whole picture's inexact: both the black and the white,
the right and the wrong.
There's a big difference between us and our actions:
we're worse than the good we do
and better than the bad.
Louis Evely, That Man is You
(Let God's unconditional love be the basis for your self-worth and acceptance. . . . starting now!)
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GN 28:10-22A; PS 91:1-2, 3-4, 14-15AB
MT 9:18-26
While Jesus was speaking, an official came forward,
knelt down before him, and said,
"My daughter has just died.
But come, lay your hand on her, and she will live."
Jesus rose and followed him, and so did his disciples.
A woman suffering hemorrhages for twelve years came up behind him
and touched the tassel on his cloak.
She said to herself, "If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured."
Jesus turned around and saw her, and said,
"Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you."
And from that hour the woman was cured.
When Jesus arrived at the official's house
and saw the flute players and the crowd who were making a commotion,
he said, "Go away! The girl is not dead but sleeping."
And they ridiculed him.
When the crowd was put out, he came and took her by the hand,
and the little girl arose.
And news of this spread throughout all that land.
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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Matthew 9:18-26 (Two miraculous cures)
In today’s reading Jesus restores a young girl to life and heals an elderly woman who had hemorrhaged for twelve years. In an age when women and children were disenfranchised in society, Jesus’ treatment of women was quite revolutionary.
• What does our culture consider qualities of masculinity and femininity? How do these stereotypes limit male and female self-expression?
• How do you feel about the Church’s teachings on sexuality issues?
• Pray for the grace to be more open to the gifts of others.
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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 5: Of the affections of the will.
There are no fewer movements in the intellectual or reasonable appetite which is called the will, than there are in the sensitive or sensual, but the first are customarily named affections, the latter passions. The philosophers and pagans did in some manner love God, the state, virtue, sciences; they hated vice, aspired after honours, despaired of escaping death or calumny, were
desirous of knowledge, yea even of beatitude after death. They encouraged themselves to surmount the difficulties which cross the way of virtue, dreaded blame, avoided some faults, avenged public injuries, opposed tyrants, without any self-interest. Now all these movements were seated in the reasonable part, since the senses, and consequently, the sensual appetite, are not capable of being applied to these objects, and therefore these movements were affections of the intellectual or reasonable
appetite, not passions of the sensual.
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