Message of 1-13-12

Published: Fri, 01/13/12


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Message of the Day

The sovereign God wants to be loved for Himself and honored for Himself, but that is only part of what He wants. The other part is that He wants us to know that when we have Him we have everything--we have all the rest.
  - A. W. Tozer (1897-1963)

(Pearl of great price!)

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Lectionary Readings of the Day
   http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month

1 Sm 8:4-7, 10-22a;    Ps 89:16-17, 18-19;    Mk 2:1-12

R. (2) For ever I will sing the goodness of the Lord.

Blessed the people who know the joyful shout;
in the light of your countenance, O LORD, they walk.
At your name they rejoice all the day,
and through your justice they are exalted.

For you are the splendor of their strength,
and by your favor our horn is exalted.
For to the LORD belongs our shield,
and to the Holy One of Israel, our King.

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Reflection on the Scripture
   http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html

And any time any of us waver from God's law, pick an earthly path rather than a spiritual one, or look to a judge who is human rather than divine, we are likewise acting against our own interests. I still don't think there is a better judge or a leader than God. Following that leader will give us a true benefit, and looking for leadership elsewhere is not in our best interest.
   - by Tami Whitney

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Spiritual Reading

On Cleaving to God
     by St. Albert the Great

To which end, if you have begun to strip and purify yourself of images and imaginations and to simplify and still your heart and mind in the Lord God so that you can draw and taste the well of divine grace in everything within yourself, and so that you are united to God in your mind by a good will, then this itself is enough for you in place of all study and reading of holy scripture, and as demonstration of love of God and neighbour, as devotion itself testifies.                                   

So simplify your heart with all care, diligence and effort so that still and at peace from the products of the imagination you can turn round and remain always in the Lord within yourself, as if your mind were already in the now of eternity, that is of the godhead. In this way you will be able to renounce yourself through love of Jesus Christ, with a pure heart, clean conscience and unfeigned faith, and commit yourself completely and fully to God in all difficulties and eventualities, and be willing to submit yourself patiently to his will and good pleasure at all times.

- Chapter 5. On purity of heart, which is to be sought above all things.

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