Message of 5-28-12
Published: Mon, 05/28/12
A Daily Spiritual Seed
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Message of the Day
Reading is the careful study of the Scriptures, concentrating all one's powers on it. Meditation is the busy application of the mind to seek with the help of one's own reason for knowledge of hidden truth. Prayer is the heart's devoted turning to God to drive away evil and obtain what is good. Contemplation is when the mind is in some sort lifted up to God and held above itself, so that it tastes the joys of everlasting sweetness. . ."
- Guigo II, The Ladder of Monks, 12th C -
(This is one of the classical listings of the different forms of prayer. Note the gift given, "joys of everlasting sweetness." Open your mind and heart to receive this blessing from God this day.)
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Lectionary Readings of the Day
http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
1 Pt 1:3-9; Ps 111:1-2, 5-6, 9 and 10c; Mk 10:17-27
R. (5) The Lord will remember his covenant for ever.
I will give thanks to the LORD with all my heart
in the company and assembly of the just.
Great are the works of the LORD,
exquisite in all their delights.
He has given food to those who fear him;
he will forever be mindful of his covenant.
He has made known to his people the power of his works,
giving them the inheritance of the nations.
He has sent deliverance to his people;
he has ratified his covenant forever;
holy and awesome is his name.
His praise endures forever.
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Reflection on the Gospel
- from Daily Bread
http://www.preacherexchange.com/daily_bread.htm
At that statement his face fell, and he went away sad, for he had many possessions.
When we assess our treasure by our material worth, we’ll walk away sad. We are deeply impoverished without the ability to recognize the value of a relationship with Christ. When we become slaves to things, we cannot know the freedom that comes from a life modeled on following Christ. How often do we hear of the true happiness and peace of those who live simply? When we get caught up in attaining items that hold little value, even though they often come with a high price tag, the steepest cost is our inability to bond with the Lord.
For the grace to distinguish between wants and needs, we pray.
- Patricia Russell
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Spiritual Reading
The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage
by St. John of Rusybroeck (1293-1381)
Now I have shown you how the free and uplifted man becomes, through the grace of God, seeing in his inward practices. And we see that this is the first point which Christ demands and desires of us where He says: Behold. As to the second and third points, wherein He says: The Bridegroom cometh, and: Go ye out, I have shown you the three ways of the inward coming of Christ; and further that the first coming has four degrees, and how we are to go out with practices answering to each way in which God inwardly enkindles, teaches, and moves us. Now we must consider the fourth point, which is the last. This is the meeting with Christ our Bridegroom. For all our inward and ghostly vision, in grace or in glory, and all our going out in the virtues, in whatsoever practices this be done, it is all for the sake of a meeting and a union with Christ our Bridegroom: for He is our eternal rest and the end and wage of all our labour.
- Chapter 56: Showing the way in which we shall meet God in a ghostly manner both with and without means.
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