Message of 2-10-12
Published: Fri, 02/10/12
A Daily Spiritual Seed
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Message of the Day
We must alter our lives in order to alter our hearts, for it is impossible to live one way and pray another.
- William Law
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Lectionary Readings of the Day
http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
1 Kgs 11:29-32; 12:19; Ps 81:10-11ab, 12-13, 14-15; Mk 7:31-37
R. (11a and 9a) I am the Lord, your God: hear my voice.
"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."
"My people heard not my voice,
and Israel obeyed me not;
So I gave them up to the hardness of their hearts;
they walked according to their own counsels."
"If only my people would hear me,
and Israel walk in my ways,
Quickly would I humble their enemies;
against their foes I would turn my hand."
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Reflection on the Scripture
http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
Rabbi Hillel, one of Judaism's greatest teachers once said, "What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellow. All the rest is commentary; go and learn" (The Misunderstood Jew, by Amy-Jill Levine). Jesus takes this a little further. Levine sees Jesus as the hero of the masses, come to promote a more just society. His followers practiced daily prayer, shared goods in common, cared for widows and believed in trusting in God's will. Of faith, hope and charity, they believed the greatest of these is charity. We see modern day examples in Gandhi, Martin Luther King, and Mother Teresa. Be proactive, practice nonviolence and charity in all forms.
And be opened! Like Jesus, we also have the power to heal.
- by Janine ter Kuile
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Spiritual Reading
On Cleaving to God
by St. Albert the Great
The more you strip yourself of the products of the imagination and involvement in external, worldly things and the objects of the senses, the more your soul will recover its strength and its inner senses so that it can appreciate the things which are above. So learn to withdraw from imaginations and the images of physical things, since what pleases God above everything is a mind bare of those sorts of forms and objects, for it is his delight to be with the sons of men, that is those who, at peace from such activities, distractions and passions, seek him with a pure and simple mind, empty themselves for him, and cleave to him. Otherwise, if your memory, imagination and thought is often involved with such things, you must needs be filled with the thought of new things or memories of old ones, or identified with other changing objects. As a result, the Holy Spirit withholds itself from thoughts bereft of understanding.
- Chapter 6. That the devout man should cleave to God with naked understanding and will.
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