Message of 7-29-11
Published: Mon, 07/25/11
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
Looking into my heart, which is perhaps the best way of looking
into others, I know that the Savior I want is one of whom I can say
with Thomas of old, "My Lord and my God." It would not suffice for
my need that He should be only an heroic brother, man divinely
inspired. I owe Him my soul, He fills my whole spiritual horizon, I
seek to lose myself in Him that I may find myself eternally in life
and love divine.
- R. J. Campbell (1867-1956), "The Call of Christ"
("I seek to lose myself in Him . . ." Spend some time with this
phrase, if you are so moved.)
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LECTIONARY READINGS FOR THE DAY
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Lv 23:1, 4-11, 15-16, 27, 34b-37; Ps. 81:3-4, 5-6, 10-11; Jn
11:19-27
R. (2a) Sing with joy to God our help.
Take up a melody, and sound the timbrel,
the pleasant harp and the lyre.
Blow the trumpet at the new moon,
at the full moon, on our solemn feast.
For it is a statute in Israel,
an ordinance of the God of Jacob,
Who made it a decree for Joseph
when he came forth from the land of Egypt.
There shall be no strange god among you
nor shall you worship any alien god.
I, the LORD, am your God
who led you forth from the land of Egypt.
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MEDITATION ON THE SCRIPTURES
- from
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
The gravedigger addressed the skull by name. It was the court
jester Yorick, remembered by Hamlet as a fellow of infinite jest.
Fool or prince, death snares all things at last. For many, this
counts as wisdom: death, the implacable, has the last laugh. We
may quibble over whether only fools fear death. But in the end,
bones and ash are the everlasting.
Jesus, like a jester, upends this common wisdom. At a distance,
decay seems to rule. The daily news is a drumbeat of untimely
demise: war, atrocity, disease, hunger, unemployment, and
imprisonment. At a distance, cynicism spreads its mantle and
spectators lose hope. Upon entering into the fray, the power of
life becomes visible. Lazarus was not the exception. The movement
from death back into life happens daily. With a closer look, the
resurrections in the ordinary pile up at our door.
- by Jeanne Schuler
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SPIRITUAL READING
- Christ's Four Modes of Presence to Us
by Philip St. Romain
- 2. The Church (part 3 of 3)
It is possible to have Christian faith without belonging to a
Church, but it doesn't make much sense to do so. Christ made it
clear that the Church was his Mystical Body--that he wanted us to
gather in his name to worship, to celebrate Eucharist, and to bring
the good news to the ends of the earth. When we exclude ourselves
from Church, we miss this mode of his presence and the formative
graces given which enable us to recognize him in other areas of
life as well. No Church is perfect, however; Christ continues to
suffer in his Mystical Body as we struggle in the Church to bring
our fallen-redeemed humanity into conformity with his will.
- from "Jesus Alive in Our Lives"
http://www.lulu.com/product/paperback/jesus-alive-in-our-lives/11780728
(paperback)
https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/41961 (ebook formats)
http://www.amazon.com/Jesus-Alive-Our-Lives-ebook/dp/B00427YKNU/
(Kindle)
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