Message of 3-23-12
Published: Fri, 03/23/12
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Message of the Day
The essential vice, the utmost evil, is Pride. Unchastity, greed, drunkenness, and all that, are mere flea-bites in comparison: it was through Pride that the devil became the devil: Pride leads to every other vice: it is the complete anti-God state of mind.
- C. S. Lewis, Into The Wardrobe
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Lectionary Readings of the Day
http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
Wis 2:1a, 12-22; Ps 34:17-18, 19-20, 21 and 23; Jn 7:1-2, 10, 25-30
R. (19a) The Lord is close to the brokenhearted.
The LORD confronts the evildoers,
to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.
When the just cry out, the LORD hears them,
and from all their distress he rescues them.
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;
and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.
Many are the troubles of the just man,
but out of them all the LORD delivers him.
He watches over all his bones;
not one of them shall be broken.
The LORD redeems the lives of his servants;
no one incurs guilt who takes refuge in him.
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Reflection on the Scriptures
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In the Gospel I was moved by the statement "...he did not wish to travel in Judea, because the Jews were trying to kill him." But he does venture into a scary place, an uncertain place, knowing that he has to be "in the mix" with others, so as to share his message/his mission with others. Many of us have been in scary situations, which we would rather have avoided and yet we all have to face our fears of the unknown, the conflict. The reminder for me was very simple, "With God all things are possible" or, one of my favorites, "If God has brought me to this, God will bring me through it".
- by Marcia Shadle Cusic
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Spiritual Reading
On Cleaving to God
by St. Albert the Great
It is therefore right and necessary for the mind to raise itself above itself and everything created by the abandonment of everything, with humble reverence and great trust, and to say within itself, "He whom I seek, love, thirst for and desire from everything and more than anything is not a thing of the senses or the imagination, but is above everything that can be experienced by the senses and the intellect. He cannot be experienced by any of the senses, but is completely desirable to my will. He is moreover not discernable, but is perfectly desirable to my inner affections. He cannot be comprehended, but can be loved in his fullness with a pure heart, for he is above all lovable and desirable, and of infinite goodness and perfection." And then a darkness comes over the mind and it is raised up into itself and penetrates even deeper.
- Chapter 7. How the heart should be gathered within itself.
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