Message of 4-2-12

Published: Mon, 04/02/12

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Message of the Day

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

Is 49:1-6;    Ps 71:1-6, 15 and 17;    Jn 13:21-33, 36-38

R. (see 15ab) I will sing of your salvation.

In you, O LORD, I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame.
In your justice rescue me, and deliver me;
incline your ear to me, and save me.

Be my rock of refuge,
a stronghold to give me safety,
for you are my rock and my fortress.
O my God, rescue me from the hand of the wicked.

For you are my hope, O Lord;
my trust, O God, from my youth.
On you I depend from birth;
from my mother's womb you are my strength.

My mouth shall declare your justice,
day by day your salvation.
O God, you have taught me from my youth,
and till the present I proclaim your wondrous deeds.

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Reflection on the Gospel
- from Daily Bread
    http://www.preacherexchange.com/daily_bread.htm

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Spiritual Reading
The Way of Perfection
- by Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)

(Continues to treat of mortification and explains how one must renounce the world's standards of wisdom in order to attain to true wisdom.)

Let the sister who thinks that she is accou

- Chapter 13

(Keep in mind that she is writing to sisters in a cloistered contemplative order.)

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