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Without being discouraged on account of our sins, we should pray for God's grace with a perfect confidence relying upon the infinite
merits of our Lord. God never fails offering us His grace at each
action, as I have distinctly perceived it myself... unless my
thoughts had wandered from a sense of God's Presence, or unless I had forgot to ask His assistance.
- Br. Lawrence, The Practice of the Presence of God
(Br. Lawrence's spirituality reminds us that if we need help with
something, we can always turn to God. Simple, but true! Remember to
do this throughout the day.)
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At-home Retreat: Resources for an 8-day private or directed retreat to make at your home or elsewhere.
- Open for registration. Resource area opens Ash Wednesday 2013.
http://shalomplace.org/retreat
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Heb 12:18-19, 21-24; Ps 48:2-4, 9-11; Mk 6:7-13
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O God, we ponder your mercy within your temple.
Great is the LORD and wholly to be praised
in the city of our God.
His holy mountain, fairest of heights,
is the joy of all the earth.
Mount Zion, "the recesses of the North,"
the city of the great King.
God is with her castles;
renowned is he as a stronghold.
As we had heard, so have we seen
in the city of the LORD of hosts,
In the city of our God;
God makes it firm forever.
O God, we ponder your mercy
within your temple.
As your name, O God, so also your praise
reaches to the ends of the earth.
Of justice your right hand is full.
USCCB Lectionary
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Why does Jesus tell the apostles to "travel light" with little or no provision? "Poverty of spirit" frees us from greed and preoccupation with possessions and makes ample room for God's provision. The Lord wants his disciples to be dependent on him and not on themselves. He wills to work through and in each of us for his glory. Are you ready to handle the power and authority which God wishes you to exercise on his behalf? The Lord entrusts us with his gifts and talents. Are you eager to place yourself at his service, to do whatever he bids you, and to witness his truth and saving power to whomever he sends you?
Lord Jesus, make me a channel of your grace and healing love that others may find life and freedom in you. Free me from all other attachments that I may joyfully pursue the things of heaven. May I witness the joy of the gospel both in word and deed. DailyScripture.net
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The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous
Fleshly janglers, open praisers and blamers of themselves or of any other, tellers of trifles, ronners and tattlers of tales, and all manner of pinchers, cared I never that they saw this book. For mine intent was never to write such thing unto them, and therefore I would that they meddle not therewith; neither they, nor any of these curious, lettered, or unlearned men. Yea, although that they be full good men of active living, yet this matter accordeth nothing to them. But if it be to those men, the which although they stand in activity by outward form of living, nevertheless yet by inward stirring after the privy spirit of God, whose dooms be hid, they be full graciously disposed, not continually as it is proper to very contemplatives, but now and then to be perceivers in the highest point of this contemplative act; if such men might see it, they should by the grace of God be greatly comforted thereby.
This book is distinguished in seventy chapters and five. Of the which chapters, the last chapter of all teacheth some certain tokens by the which a soul may verily prove whether he be called of God to be a worker in this work or none. - from the Prologue |
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