Message of 10-19-12

Published: Fri, 10/19/12


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Message of the Day

Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.
  - Sadhu Sundar Singh

("Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another." Mk. 9:50)

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

Eph 1:11-14;    Ps 33:1-2, 4-5, 12-13;    Lk 12:1-7

R. (12) Blessed the people the Lord has chosen to be his own.

Exult, you just, in the LORD;
praise from the upright is fitting.
Give thanks to the LORD on the harp;
with the ten stringed lyre chant his praises.

For upright is the word of the LORD,
and all his works are trustworthy.
He loves justice and right;
of the kindness of the LORD the earth is full.

Blessed the nation whose God is the LORD,
the people he has chosen for his own inheritance.
From heaven the LORD looks down;
he sees all mankind.

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Reflection on the Scriptures
-  http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html

Today marks the Memorial of Saint John de Brébeuf and Saint Isaac Jogues, priests and martyrs, and their companions.  These Jesuit priests worked extensively with the native people in the New World particularly the Huron Indians and were the first martyrs of the North American continent officially recognized by the Church. They were among a number of Jesuits who suffered greatly and sacrificed their lives to bring Christianity to the area.  Father Jogues was tortured and his hands mangled yet he was able to escape and return to Europe. So impressed by his great sacrifices, Pope Urban VIII allowed him to continue to say Mass even with his mangled hands.  Yet rather than just focus his energies in this safe haven, he traveled once more to fulfill what he believed was his missions among the Hurons.  Similarly, Father de Brébeuf was expelled from Quebec when the English captured the city yet he, too, returned to fulfill his mission.  He composed catechisms and a dictionary in Huron, and saw 7,000 converted before his horrific death. These priests (and their other companions) truly lived the basic teaching of St. Ignatius, Ad Majorem Dei Gloriam (AMDG): "For the Greater Glory of God.

- by Nancy Shirley

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Spiritual Reading

On Cleaving to God
     by St. Albert the Great

This therefore should be the aim, this the concern and goal of a spiritual person - to be worthy to possess the image of future bliss in this corruptible body, and in a certain measure experience in advance how the foretaste of that heavenly bliss, eternal life and glory begins in this world. This, as I say, is the goal of all perfection, that his purified mind should be daily raised up from all bodily objects to spiritual things until all his mental activity and all his heart's desire become one unbroken prayer.

- Chapter 13. The nature and value of prayer, and how the heart should be recollected within itself.

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