Message of the Day
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This is, or should be, the guiding principle of all social reform--to organize the economic, political and social relationships between human beings in such a way that there shall be, for any given individual or group within the society, a minimum of temptations to covetousness, pride, cruelty and lust for power.
- Aldous Huxley [20th C], The Perennial Philosophy (The good example starts with each of us.) |
Readings of the Day
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EPH 2:19-22; PS 19:2-5; LK 6:12-16 R. Their message goes out through all the earth. The heavens declare the glory of God,
and the firmament proclaims his handiwork.
Day pours out the word to day,
and night to night imparts knowledge.
Not a word nor a discourse
whose voice is not heard;
Through all the earth their voice resounds,
and to the ends of the world, their message.
USCCB lectionary
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Reflection on the Gospel
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You are no longer strangers and sojourners, but you are fellow citizens with the holy ones and members of the household of God, built upon the foundation of the apostles.
Sometimes I think about what we owe our ancestors in the faith. Most of us ministers have had these two kinds of encounters: first, with a person who has rejected the faith, not after well-thought-out reasoning but because of just plain, dumb ignorance. Sometimes these are people we love very much and there's nothing we can do but call on the saints to intercede for them and try to be a saint ourselves. Then there is that second encounter with someone who has just discovered the Gospel and is blown away by what they have never known and have been seeking all their lives. They feel themselves to be no longer strangers, but at home.
Saints of God, be with those we love who have not found their church home, we pray. - by Paige Byrne Shortal
Daily Bread
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Spiritual Reading
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The Sparkling Stone, by St. John of Rusybroeck (1293-1381)
And, after this, there follows the third way of feeling; namely, that we feel ourselves to be one with God; for, through the transformation in God, we feel ourselves to be swallowed up in the fathomless abyss of our eternal blessedness, wherein we can nevermore find any distinction between ourselves and God. And this is our highest feeling, which we cannot experience in any other way than in the immersion in love. And therefore, so soon as we are uplifted and drawn into our highest feeling, all our powers stand idle in an essential fruition; but our powers do not pass away into nothingness, for then we should lose our created being. And as long as we stand idle, with an inclined spirit, and with open eyes, but without reflection, so long we can contemplate and have fruition. But, at the very moment in which we seek to prove and to comprehend what it is that we feel, we fall back into reason, and there we find a distinction and an otherness between ourselves and God, and find God outside ourselves in incomprehensibility.
- Chapter 10: "How we, though one with God, must eternally remain other than God."
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