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Prayer is like watching for the kingfisher.
All you can do is Be where he is likely to appear,
and Wait.
- Ann Lewin, "Watching for the Kingfishers," in Seasons of Grace
(This Wait-ing is itself a kind of surrender, and a formation in receptivity.)
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1 SM 16:1-13; Psalm 89:20, 21-22, 27-28
MK 2:23-28
As Jesus was passing through a field of grain on the sabbath,
his disciples began to make a path while picking the heads of grain.
At this the Pharisees said to him,
“Look, why are they doing what is unlawful on the sabbath?”
He said to them,
“Have you never read what David did
when he was in need and he and his companions were hungry?
How he went into the house of God when Abiathar was high priest
and ate the bread of offering that only the priests could lawfully eat,
and shared it with his companions?”
Then he said to them,
“The sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath.
That is why the Son of Man is lord even of the sabbath.”
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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Mark 2: 23-28 (Jesus, Lord of the Sabbath)
In Deuteronomy 23: 26, it is stated that Jews may pluck some of the ears with your hand, but do not put a sickle to your neighbor's grain. This prevented the poor and starving from going hungry, but it was never to be done on the Sabbath. Jesus shows us that human needs are more important than a rigid interpretation of the law.
* Do you go to church only out of a sense of obligation? Evaluate your motives.
* How is Jesus the lord of your Sunday experience?
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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 10: That the union to which love aspires is spiritual
Eliseus having cured Naaman the Syrian was satisfied with having done him a service, and refused his gold, his silver and the goods he offered him, but his faithless servant Giezi, running after him, demanded and took, against his master’s pleasure, that which he had refused. Intellectual and cordial love, which certainly either is or should be master in our heart, refuses all sorts of
corporal and sensible unions, and is contented with goodwill only, but the powers of the sensitive part, which are or should be the handmaids of the spirit, demand, seek after and take that which reason refused, and without leave make after their abject and servile love, dishonouring, like Giezi, the purity of the intention of their master, the spirit. And in proportion as the soul turns herself to such gross and sensible unions, so far does she divert herself from the delicate, intellectual and
cordial union.
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