Message of 2-24-09
Published: Mon, 02/23/09
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
Do not pray for tasks equal to your powers. Pray for powers equal
to your tasks. Then the doing of your work shall be no miracle, but
you yourself shall be the miracle.
... Phillips Brooks
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Sir 2:1-11; Ps 37:3-4, 18-19, 27-28, 39-40; Mk 9:30-37
R. (see 5) Commit your life to the Lord, and he will help you.
Trust in the LORD and do good,
that you may dwell in the land and be fed in security.
Take delight in the LORD,
and he will grant you your heart's requests.
The LORD watches over the lives of the wholehearted;
their inheritance lasts forever.
They are not put to shame in an evil time;
in days of famine they have plenty.
Turn from evil and do good,
that you may abide forever;
For the LORD loves what is right,
and forsakes not his faithful ones.
The salvation of the just is from the LORD;
he is their refuge in time of distress.
And the LORD helps them and delivers them;
he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.
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GOSPEL MEDITATION
- from "Daily Reflections"
http://www.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
As I read the gospel, I imagined how difficult it must have been
for the disciples to understand what Jesus was telling them. It is
easy for us, we know how the story ends. I wondered how I would
have reacted. Would I have understood that this man is truly God?
I often wonder if Mary had a clue about how this would all end.
Whatever we believe, it is evident that we are here to serve the
Lord, not ourselves. That does not mean, we can not have nice
things or take care of ourselves, but it does mean we serve God
first and foremost in all we do, say, and think. A continuing
challenge for this very grateful yet struggling child of God. . .
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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)
101. We must adjust our trials to ourselves, and not ourselves to
our trials.
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