Message of 2-9-10
Published: Tue, 02/02/10
- resources for prayer and spiritual growth
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
Pray with your intelligence. Bring things to God that you have
thought out and think them out again with Him. That is the secret
of good judgment. Repeatedly place your pet opinions and prejudices
before God. He will surprise you by showing you that the best of
them need refining and some the purification of destruction.
- Charles H. Brent
(What do you need to "think through" with God these days?)
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
1 Kgs 8:22-23, 27-30; Ps. 84:3, 4, 5, 10, 11; Mk 7:1-13
R. (2) How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God!
My soul yearns and pines
for the courts of the LORD.
My heart and my flesh
cry out for the living God.
Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest
in which she puts her young--
Your altars, O LORD of hosts,
my king and my God!
Blessed they who dwell in your house!
continually they praise you.
O God, behold our shield,
and look upon the face of your anointed.
I had rather one day in your courts
than a thousand elsewhere;
I had rather lie at the threshold of the house of my God
than dwell in the tents of the wicked.
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GOSPEL MEDITATION
- from http://www.dailyscripture.net/
If we listen to God's word with faith and reverence, it will both
enlighten our mind ands purify the hearts - thus enabling us to
better understand how he wants us to love and obey him. The Lord
invites us to draw near to him and to feast at his banquet table.
Do you approach with a clean heart and mind? Ask the Lord to
cleanse and renew you with the purifying fire of his Holy Spirit.
"Lord Jesus, let the fire of your Holy Spirit cleanse my mind and
my heart that I may love you purely and serve you worthily."
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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)
160. Whoever knows how to die in all will have life in all.
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