Message of 10-7-11
Published: Fri, 10/07/11
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Message of the Day
It is possible to be so active in the service of Christ as to forget to love him.
- P. T. Forsyth
(Something to watch out for . . .)
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Lectionary Readings of the Day
http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
Jl 1:13-15; 2:1-2; Ps 9:2-3, 6 and 16, 8-9; Lk 11:15-26
R. (9) The Lord will judge the world with justice.
I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart;
I will declare all your wondrous deeds.
I will be glad and exult in you;
I will sing praise to your name, Most High.
You rebuked the nations and destroyed the wicked;
their name you blotted out forever and ever.
The nations are sunk in the pit they have made;
in the snare they set, their foot is caught.
But the LORD sits enthroned forever;
he has set up his throne for judgment.
He judges the world with justice;
he governs the peoples with equity.
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Reflection on the Scripture
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
The world in which we live proclaims boldly and defends loudly the separation of the secular from the religious. We are familiar with opposition to any acknowledgement of the intervention of the Kingdom of God in daily events. However, even among believers, doubts about God's nearness can mix all too easily with statements of faith. In the face of this world's darkness, believers wonder about this Kingdom of God and its power.
Certainly, those who witnessed the crucifixion of Jesus must have thought similar thoughts.
Those early believers, however, learned to trust that the cross of Jesus was the sign that the Kingdom of God need not be separated from earthly events, no matter how tragic.
The gospel invites us today to pray for the faith that sees, that trusts in the power of the Kingdom among us. Where will I see and trust that power today at work, in prayer, in relationships?
- by Rev. Richard Gabuzda
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Spiritual Reading
On Cleaving to God
by St. Albert the Great
Members of religious orders have committed themselves in addition to evangelical perfection, and to the things that constitute a voluntary and counselled perfection by means of which one may arrive more quickly to the supreme goal which is God. The observation of these additional commitments excludes as well the things that hinder the working and fervour of love, and without which one can come to God, and these include the renunciation of all things, of both body and mind, exactly as one's vow of profession entails.
- Chapter 1, On the highest and supreme perfection of man, in so far as it is possible in this life.
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