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We are the wire, God is the current.
Our only power is to let the current pass through us.
- Carlo Carretto
(What is short-circuiting the current of the Spirit at this time in your life? Pray, "They will be done.")
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ZEC 8:1-8; PS 102:16-18, 19-21, 29 AND 22-23
LK 9:46-50
An argument arose among the disciples
about which of them was the greatest.
Jesus realized the intention of their hearts and took a child
and placed it by his side and said to them,
"Whoever receives this child in my name receives me,
and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me.
For the one who is least among all of you
is the one who is the greatest."
Then John said in reply,
"Master, we saw someone casting out demons in your name
and we tried to prevent him
because he does not follow in our company."
Jesus said to him,
"Do not prevent him, for whoever is not against you is for 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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Luke 9:46-50 (Who is the greatest?)
As Jesus' reputation spread throughout the countryside, it was only natural that the disciples should vie for status. Christian identity has nothing to do with status or a competitive edge, however. True greatness is bestowed upon people who are open to accepting grace as a little child.
* How important is status and recognition to you? With whom do you compare yourself in evaluating your worth as a person?
* Pray for the grace to form your identity more deeply in Christ.
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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 7: Description of the will, in general
Now this motion caused by complacency lasts till the union or fruition. Therefore when it tends to a present good, it does no more than push the heart, clasp it, join, and apply it to the thing beloved, which by this means it enjoys, and then it is called love of complacency, because as soon as ever it is begotten of the first complacency it ends in the second, which it receives in
being united to its present object. But when the good towards which the heart is turned, inclined, and moved is distant, absent or future, or when so perfect a union cannot yet be made as is desired, then the motion of love by which the heart tends, makes and aspires towards this absent object, is properly named desire, for desire is no other thing than the appetite, concupiscence, or cupidity for things we have not, but which however we aim at getting.
* complacency = resignation to God's will
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