Message of 7-17-07

Published: Tue, 07/17/07



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MESSAGE OF THE DAY

Joy is prayer - Joy is strength - Joy is love - Joy is a net of love by which you can catch souls. God loves a cheerful giver. She gives most who gives with joy. The best way to show our gratitude to God and the people is to accept everything with joy. A joyful heart is the inevitable result of a heart burning with love. Never let anything so fill you with sorrow as to make you forget the joy of the Christ risen.
  - Mother Teresa

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LECTIONARY READINGS
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Ex 2:1-15a;   Ps 69:3, 14, 30-31, 33-34;   Mt 11:20-24

R.    (see 33) Turn to the Lord in your need, and you will live.

I am sunk in the abysmal swamp
where there is no foothold;
I have reached the watery depths;
the flood overwhelms me.

But I pray to you, O LORD,
for the time of your favor, O God!
In your great kindness answer me
with your constant help.

But I am afflicted and in pain;
let your saving help, O God, protect me;
I will praise the name of God in song,
and I will glorify him with thanksgiving.

"See, you lowly ones, and be glad;
you who seek God, may your hearts revive!
For the LORD hears the poor,
and his own who are in bonds he spurns not."

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- Matthew 11: 20-24 (Woes to towns)

If we are waiting for a greater gift from God than Jesus, we shall have to wait forever.  This is the message Matthew shares in today's reading.  It is not that the people of Chorazin, Bethsaida, and Capernaum reject Jesus but that they fail to reform.

  • Do you take your nationality for granted? Your faith? Jesus? Spend some time thanking God for these gifts.

  • Call to mind someone close to you who has drifted away in intimacy recently.  Resolve to do something to make this relationship closer.

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    SAYINGS OF LIGHT AND LOVE
      by St. John of the Cross
      - jottings from his notebooks

    10. Whoever falls while heavily laden will find it difficult to rise under the burden.

    11. The blind person who falls will not be able to get up alone; the blind person who does get up alone will go off on the wrong road.

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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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