Message of 2-3-09
Published: Fri, 01/30/09
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
"Our natural will is to have God, and the good will of God is to
have us, and we may never cease willing or longing for God until we
have him in the fullness of joy. Christ will never have his full
bliss in us until we have our full bliss in him."
- Julian of Norwich
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Heb 12:1-4; Ps 22:26b-27, 28 and 30, 31-32; Mk 5:21-43
R. (see 27b) They will praise you, Lord, who long for you.
I will fulfill my vows before those who fear him.
The lowly shall eat their fill;
they who seek the LORD shall praise him:
"May your hearts be ever merry!"
All the ends of the earth
shall remember and turn to the LORD;
All the families of the nations
shall bow down before him.
To him alone shall bow down
all who sleep in the earth;
Before him shall bend
all who go down into the dust.
And to him my soul shall live;
my descendants shall serve him.
Let the coming generation be told of the LORD
that they may proclaim to a people yet to be born
the justice he has shown.
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GOSPEL MEDITATION
- from "Daily Reflections"
http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
As we understand the Incarnation, which we just finished
celebrating in a special way in the Christmas season, when the
eternal Son of God took on human nature, that meant that Jesus had
to grow up the way all of us did, learning his mother tongue from
his mother, and learning to live the life of the Israelite covenant
with the creating Father with the same fidelity that all Jews were
called to. His prayer was real prayer, not play-acting. He was like
us in all things, but sin, as this same letter tells us (4:15). But
he excelled. Thus, the striking language of "leader and perfecter
of faith." The rest of the letter fills that out by reminding us
that Jesus is not only the model of faithfulness; he enables us to
follow behind him in the same "foot race."
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PRAYING WITH SCRIPTURE (Ignatian Method)
A. Preparation: acts of faith and reverence in the presence of God;
asking grace of a good meditation; petition for specific graces
sought in meditation.
B. Reading the Scriptures slowly, prayerfully.
C. Exercise of the memory, imagination, and intellect:
consideration of the material.. What practical applications are
suggested?
D. Expression of feelings and sentiments awakened in meditation.
Conversation with God.
E. Exercise of will and imagination in making resolutions. Prayer
for grace to fulfill resolutions.
F. Vocal prayer (Our Father, Hail Mary, other prayers).
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NOTES FROM A CLASSICAL WORK
"Sayings of Light and Love," by St. John of the Cross (jottings
from his notebooks)
98. The poor one who is naked will be clothed; and the soul that is
naked of desires and whims, God will clothe with his purity,
pleasure, and will.
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