Message of 6-15-12
Published: Fri, 06/15/12
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Message of the Day
What then, is more precious than to be in the hand of God? For God is Life and Light, and those who are in God's hand are in life and light."
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Lectionary Readings of the Day
http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
Hos 11:1, 3-4, 8c-9; Is 12:2-3, 4, 5-6; Eph 3:8-12, 14-19; Jn 19:31-37
R. (3) You will draw water joyfully from the springs of salvation.
God indeed is my savior;
I am confident and unafraid.
My strength and my courage is the LORD,
and he has been my savior.
With joy you will draw water
at the fountain of salvation.
Give thanks to the LORD, acclaim his name;
among the nations make known his deeds,
proclaim how exalted is his name.
Sing praise to the LORD for his glorious achievement;
let this be known throughout all the earth.
Shout with exultation, O city of Zion,
for great in your midst
is the Holy One of Israel!
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Reflection on the Scriptures
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The Feast of the Sacred Heart of Jesus comes to us as an invitation to penetrate more deeply the mystery of the humanity of Christ, who out of great love laid down his life for us and poured out that wondrous love by opening his heart on the cross, bidding us to that fountain of precious blood and living water---the blood of the sacrifical lamb, and the water of the Spirit, baptism and eucharist. We want to drink deeply of the spring of eternal life. . .
At the death of Jesus, the earth shook and hard rocks were split. The Sacred Heart enables our stoney hearts to become flesh and beat with the heart of Christ, and to drink deeply of the living water that wells up to eternal life. This is the will of God for you, your holiness (1 Thess 4:3). If the wounded world is to become holy, it needs the prayers and works of saints who dwell in the heart of Christ. This Sacred Heart invites us to such holiness.
- by David Smith, S.J.
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Spiritual Reading
On Cleaving to God
by St. Albert the Great
Even in this one should bear in mind the difference between the contemplation of faithful Christians and that of pagan philosophers, for the contemplation of the philosophers is for the perfection of the contemplator himself, and consequently it is confined to the intellect and their aim in it is intellectual knowledge. But the contemplation of the Saints, and of Christians, is for the love of him, that is of the God they are contemplating. As a result it is not confined in the final analysis to the intellect in knowledge, but crosses over into the will through love. That is why the Saints in their contemplation have the love of God as their principal aim, since it is more satisfying to know and possess even the Lord Jesus Christ spiritually through grace than physically or even really but without grace.
- Chapter 9. How much the contemplation of God is to be preferred to all other exercises.
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