Sunday test run

Published: Sun, 05/13/07

A Daily Spiritual Seed
May 14, 2007

Message of the Day
 
     Please, Lord, love me passionately.  Love me often.  Love me long.

     Your love is the key to me, and the more passionately You love me, the purer I become.  My life becomes more genuine then.

     The more you love me, the more beautiful I become in my thoughts; the longer You love me, the holier I become while living on this earth.  

     Make me real.

           - Mechthild of Magdeburg, "The Flowing Light of the Godhead"

(Let this prayer open you to the gift of God's love.  Pray its words sincerely, and with beseeching.)


Scripture Readings and Reflection
 
Acts 15:22-31;   Ps 57:8-9, 10 and 12;   Jn 15:12-17

R.    (10a) I will give you thanks among the peoples, O Lord.

My heart is steadfast, O God; my heart is steadfast;
I will sing and chant praise.
Awake, O my soul; awake, lyre and harp!
I will wake the dawn.

I will give thanks to you among the peoples, O LORD,
I will chant your praise among the nations.
For your mercy towers to the heavens,
and your faithfulness to the skies.
Be exalted above the heavens, O God;
above all the earth be your glory!


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Praying the Daily Gospels
 - by Philip St. Romain:
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- John 15:12-17 (Love one another)

Thousands of pages of reflection have been written about Jesus Christ and the meaning of his revelation for us. Jesus sums up everything in today's reading, briefly and succinctly! We are to bear fruit for the glory of God, for God has chosen us to share with one another his love for us.
  • A pious tradition suggests that at the end of our lives, when we stand before God, he will ask us only one question: 'Have you lived your life in such a way as to show others that I loved you?" Using this past week as the basis for your answer, how will you respond?

  • Do you believe that God has chosen you to be one of his friends? How do you experience this?


    • Abandonment to Divine Providence
    by Jean Pierre de Caussade
     
       Take notice that they are in complete harmony with those which Our Lord
       desires that we should have always on our lips and in our hearts: "Fiat
       voluntas tua.'" It is true that what was required of Mary at this great
       moment, was for her very great glory, but the magnificence of this glory
       would have made no impression on her if she had not seen in it the
       fulfilment of the will of God. In all things was she ruled by the divine
       will. Were her occupations ordinary, or of an elevated nature, they were to
       her but the manifestation, sometimes obscure, sometimes clear, of the
       operations of the most High, in which she found alike subject matter for the
       glory of God. Her spirit, transported with joy, looked upon all that she had
       to do or to suffer at each moment as the gift of Him who fills with good
       things the hearts of those who hunger and thirst for Him alone, and have no
       desire for created things.

                   -- Book 1, Chapter 1, Section 1


    Editor for this service is Philip St. Romain