Message of the Day
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"O consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, 'come upon me,' and create in my soul a
kind of incarnation of the Word: that I may be another humanity for Him in
which He can renew His whole Mystery. And You, O Father, bend lovingly over
Your poor little creature, 'cover her with Your shadow,' seeing in her only
the 'Beloved in whom You are well pleased.'"
- Elizabeth of the Trinity, 19th-20th Centuries Amen!
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Readings of the Day
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JON 1:1-2:1-2, 11; JON 2:3-5, 8; LK 10:25-37 R. You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord. Out of my distress I called to the LORD,
and he answered me;
From the midst of the nether world I cried for help,
and you heard my voice.
For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea,
and the flood enveloped me;
All your breakers and your billows
passed over me.
Then I said, "I am banished from your sight!
yet would I again look upon your holy temple."
When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the LORD;
My prayer reached you
in your holy temple.
USCCB lectionary
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Reflection on the Gospel
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And who is my neighbor?
Although we can connect instantly with someone on the other side of the world, we often do not even know the people across the street. It's hard to
determine who our neighbor is. This means we can tend to assume that others will take up the task of reaching out in love and compassion on our behalf. In making it easier to connect with people electronically, we have also made it easier to avoid genuine human contact. An email or a text does not eliminate our authentic responsibility to meet the needs of our brothers and sisters in Christ, whether they are next door or half a world away. We cannot expect others to take the lead.
That we may act in love on our call to serve the most needy and vulnerable, we pray. - Patricial Russell
Daily Bread
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Spiritual Reading
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The Sparkling Stone, by St. John of Rusybroeck (1293-1381)
When we are thus made one with God, there abides within us a quickening knowledge and an active love; for without our own knowledge, we cannot possess God; and without the practice of love, we cannot be united with God, nor remain one with Him. For if we could be blessed without our knowledge, then a stone, which has no knowledge, could also be blessed. Were I lord over all the world and knew it not, how would it profit me? And therefore we shall ever know and feel that we taste and possess; and this is testified by Christ Himself, where He speaks thus of us to His Father: This, he says, is life eternal, that they should know Thee, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, Whom Thou hast sent. And by this you may understand that our eternal life consists in knowledge with discernment.
- Chapter 9: "How we may become hidden sons of God and attain to the God-seeing life."
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