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Message of the Day
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Let God operate in thee; hand the work over to Him and do not disquiet thyself
as to whether or no He is working with nature or above nature, for His are both nature and grace.
- Meister Eckhart (1260-1327), Works of Meister Eckhart
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Lenten Study Series
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Topic:
God and I: Exploring the connections between God, Self and Ego (spiritual theology)
Learning Process: 9 written conferences; private discussion forum for participants; video conferences.
See http://shalomplace.com/inetmin/GodandI for more information and registration options.
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Lectionary Readings
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JAS 2:1-9; PS 34:2-3, 4-5, 6-7; MK 8:27-33
R. The Lord hears the cry of the poor.
I will bless the LORD at all times;
his praise shall be ever in my mouth.
Let my soul glory in the LORD;
the lowly will hear me and be glad.
Glorify the LORD with me,
let us together extol his name.
I sought the LORD, and
he answered me
and delivered me from all my fears.
Look to him that you may be radiant with joy,
and your faces may not blush with shame.
When the poor one called out, the LORD heard,
and from all his distress he saved him.USCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Gospel
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How different are God's thoughts and ways from our thoughts and ways! Through humiliation, suffering, and death on the cross Jesus broke the powers of sin and death and won for us our
salvation. The Lord Jesus tests each of us personally with the same question: Who do you say that I am?
"Lord Jesus, I profess and believe that you are the Christ, the Son of the living God. You
are my Lord and my Savior. Make my faith strong and help me to live in the victory of the cross by rejecting sin and by accepting your will."
DailyScripture.net
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Spiritual Reading
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The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous The true exposition of this gospel word, "Mary hath chosen the best part."
And therefore let the voice of our Lord cry on these actives, as if He said thus now for us unto them, as He did then for Mary to Martha, "Martha, Martha!"-"Actives, actives! make you as busy as ye can in the first part and in the second, now in the one and now in the tother: and, if you list right well and feel you disposed, in both two bodily. And meddle you not of contemplatives. Ye wot not what them aileth: let them sit in their
rest and in their play, with the third and the best part of Mary."
- Chapter 21
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