Message of 11-11-11
Published: Fri, 11/11/11
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Message of the Day
The one supreme, unchangeable rule of love, which is a law to all intelligent beings of all worlds, and will be a law to all eternity is this, viz., that God alone is to be loved for himself, and all other beings only in him and for him. Whatever intelligent creature lives not under this rule of love, is so far fallen from the order of his creation, and is, till he returns to his eternal law of love, an apostate from God, and incapable of the kingdom of heaven.
Now if God alone is to be loved for himself, then no creature is to be loved for itself; and so all self-love in every creature is absolutely condemned.
And if all created beings are only to be loved in and for God, then my neighbour is to be loved, as I love myself, and I am only to love myself, as I love my neighbour, or any other created being, that is, only in and for God.
- William Law (1686-1761), The Spirit of Prayer
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Lectionary Readings of the Day
http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
Wis 13:1-9; Ps 19:2-3, 4-5ab; Lk 17:26-37
R. (2a) The heavens proclaim the glory of God.
The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
Day pours out the word to day,
and night to night imparts knowledge.
Not a word nor a discourse
whose voice is not heard;
Through all the earth their voice resounds,
and to the ends of the world, their message.
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Reflection on the Scripture
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
What is the 'end' for which we are created? We are made "for the Glory of God." St Iraneus, a second century Christian, is often quoted as saying "The glory of God is the human person fully alive!" In the Gospel of John (10:10) Jesus says "I have come that you may have life, and have it more abundantly!"
Today's readings are an invitation to take time to reflect on our interaction and involvement with all of creation. Is this (activity, person, thing, commitment, pursuit, etc.) leading towards, or away from, greater life, faith, love, service, compassion, wholeness, holiness, etc.? Do we recognize the Giver IN the gift? Might we even come to see that the Giver IS the Gift?
- by Diane Jorgensen
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Spiritual Reading
On Cleaving to God
by St. Albert the Great
Now the image of God as found in the soul consists of these three faculties, namely reason, memory and will, and so long as they are not completely stamped with God, the soul is not yet deiform in accordance with the initial creation of the soul. For the true pattern of the soul is God, with whom it must be imprinted, like wax with a seal, and carry the mark of his impress. But this can never be complete until the intellect is perfectly illuminated, according to its capacity, with the knowledge of God, who is perfect truth, until the will is perfectly focused on the love of the perfect good, and until the memory is fully absorbed in turning to and enjoying eternal happiness, and in gladly and contentedly resting in it. And since the glory of the beatitude which is achieved in our heavenly homeland consists in the complete fulfilment of these three faculties, it follows that perfect initiation of them is perfection in this life.
- Chapter 3. How our activity should favor what is above over what is below.
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