Message of 10-5-12
Published: Fri, 10/05/12
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Message of the Day
You, O eternal Trinity, are a deep sea, into which the more I enter the more I find, and the more I find the more I seek. The soul cannot be satiated in your abyss, for she continually hungers after you, the eternal Trinity, desiring to see you with the light of your light. As the heart desires the springs of living water, so my soul desires to leave the prison of this dark body and see you in truth.
- Catherine of Siena (1347-1380), Dialog of Catherine of Siena [1378], Treatise of Obedience, xi.
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Lectionary Readings of the Day
http://www.usccb.org/calendar/index.cfm?showLit=1&action=month
Jb 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5; Ps 139:1-3, 7-8, 9-10, 13-14; Lk 10:13-16
R. (24b) Guide me, Lord, along the everlasting way.
O LORD, you have probed me and you know me;
you know when I sit and when I stand;
you understand my thoughts from afar.
My journeys and my rest you scrutinize,
with all my ways you are familiar.
Where can I go from your spirit?
From your presence where can I flee?
If I go up to the heavens, you are there;
if I sink to the nether world, you are present there.
If I take the wings of the dawn,
if I settle at the farthest limits of the sea,
Even there your hand shall guide me,
and your right hand hold me fast.
Truly you have formed my inmost being;
you knit me in my mother's womb.
I give you thanks that I am fearfully, wonderfully made;
wonderful are your works.
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Reflection on the Scriptures
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The voice of the Lord stuns Job into silence and Job now meekly responds to the Lord:
"Behold, I am of little account; what can I answer you?
I put my hand over my mouth.
Though I have spoken once, I will not do so again;
Though twice, I will do so no more."
Job had gotten his anger at God "off his chest." And Job is now able to listen to God. Yes, even amid his sufferings Job allows God to touch him. Job experiences a profound presence of God -- a presence deeper than any presence he had know before, "I had heard of You by word of mouth but now my eye has seen you."
Amid his sufferings Job experiences God! Job's experience reminds me of Paul's boasting in his weakness so that the power of God could be manifested! And it reminds me of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsemane, in agony and sweating blood, being comforted by an angel!
After I get through complaining to God about my trials, I often need to remind myself that these sufferings can become the very occasion for experiencing God's presence even more profoundly.
- by Fr. Dick Hauser, S.J.
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Spiritual Reading
On Cleaving to God
by St. Albert the Great
Besides this, since we are incapable of ourselves for this and for any other good action whatsoever, and since we can of ourselves offer nothing to the Lord God (from whom all good things come) which is not his already, with this one exception, as he has deigned to show us both by his own blessed mouth as well as by his example, that we should turn to him in all circumstances and occasions as guilty, wretched, poor, beggarly, weak, helpless, subject servants and sons. And that we should beseech him and lay before him with complete confidence the dangers that are besetting us on all sides, completely grief-stricken in ourselves, in humble prostration of mind, in fear and love, and with recollected, composed, mature, true and naked, shamefaced affection, with great yearning and determination, and in groaning of heart and sincerity of mind.
- Chapter 13. The nature and value of prayer, and how the heart should be recollected within itself.
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