Message of 5-21-07
Published: Mon, 05/21/07
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
Your worthiness gives you no help, and your unworthiness does not harm you. As one drop of water is as compared to the great ocean, so are my sins as compared with God's incomprehensible grace in Christ.
- Johann Arndt
(Open yourself to God's merciful love. Let this be the basis for your self-esteem.)
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Acts 19:1-8; Ps 68:2-3ab, 4-5acd, 6-7ab; Jn 16:29-33
R.
(33a) Sing to God, O kingdoms of the earth.
God arises; his enemies are scattered,
and those who hate him flee before him.
As smoke is driven away, so are they driven;
as wax melts before the fire.
But the just rejoice and exult before God;
they are glad and rejoice.
Sing to God, chant praise to his name;
whose name is the LORD.
The father of orphans and the defender of widows
is God in his holy dwelling.
God gives a home to the forsaken;
he leads forth prisoners to prosperity.
God arises; his enemies are scattered,
and those who hate him flee before him.
As smoke is driven away, so are they driven;
as wax melts before the fire.
But the just rejoice and exult before God;
they are glad and rejoice.
Sing to God, chant praise to his name;
whose name is the LORD.
The father of orphans and the defender of widows
is God in his holy dwelling.
God gives a home to the forsaken;
he leads forth prisoners to prosperity.
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Praying the Daily Gospels
- by Philip St. Romain:
- http://www.liguori.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=6614
- John 16:29-33 (The apostles’ desertion prophesied)
Many times Jesus’ disciples struggled to comprehend the meaning of his words. When, at the Last Supper, they believe that they finally understand him, Jesus sees through the shallowness of their comprehension. Faith in him without acceptance of the suffering that will accompany faith has been a problem for Christians from the beginning.
• What are some
of the more urgent issues facing the Christian community to which you
belong? How are you struggling to help work through these issues?
• Spend some time with the verse “I have told you this SO that you might have peace in me.” Allow that peace to pervade your being.
• Spend some time with the verse “I have told you this SO that you might have peace in me.” Allow that peace to pervade your being.
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THEOLOGICAL GEMS FROM EMIL MERCH'S THEOLOGY OF THE MYSTICAL BODY
from http://www.innerexplorations.com/chtheomortext/theolgems.htm
(On Original Sin)
Humanity, in the full, supernatural measure of its existence, deprived itself of the gifts that were to have made it more happy and more unified by making it divine. But the offer of the gift was not retracted; the sin had been foreseen… and nature remained destined for the gift. Hence nature is in opposition to the gift and to itself, in absolute interior disorder, in sin. There is sin only in relation to the supernatural order, and because of God’s persistent, obstinate goodness.
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