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Message of the Day
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God is within us. The divine Mother is in our every cell; the divine Father is in our minds and on our tongues. . . There is nothing in us that is not the home of God. our boundaries are as large as being itself.
- Christin Lore Weber, Search for the Sacred Center
(Rest in the awareness that God is your true home, and that God is always with you.)
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Lectionary Readings
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ACTS 5:27-33; PS 34:2, 9, 17-20; JN 3:31-36
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.
Taste and see how good the LORD is;
blessed the man who takes refuge in him.
The LORD confronts the evildoers,
to destroy remembrance of them from the earth.
When the just cry out, the LORD hears them,
and from all their distress he rescues them.
The LORD is close to the brokenhearted;
and those who are crushed in spirit he saves.
Many are the troubles of the just man,
but out of
them all the LORD delivers him.
USCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Gospel
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If you choose to obey God's voice and to do his will, then you will know and experience that abundant life which comes from God himself. If you choose to follow your own way apart from God and his will, then you choose for death - a spiritual death which poisons and kills the heart and soul until there is nothing left but an empty
person devoid of love, truth, goodness, purity, peace, and joy. Do your choices lead you towards God or away from God?
"Lord Jesus Christ, let your Holy Spirit fill me and transform my heart and mind that I may choose life - the abundant life you offer to those who trust in you. Give me courage to always choose what is good, true, and just and to reject whatever is false, foolish, and contrary to your holy will."
DailyScripture.net
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Spiritual Reading
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The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous That without full special grace, or long use in common grace, the work of this book is right travailous; and in this work, which is the work of the soul helped by grace,
and which is the work of only God.
AND therefore travail fast awhile, and beat upon this high cloud of unknowing, and rest afterward. Nevertheless, a travail shall he have who so shall use him in this work; yea, surely! and that a full great travail, unless he have a more special grace, or else that he have of long time used him therein.
But I pray thee, wherein shall that travail be? Surely not in that devout stirring of love that is continually wrought in his will, not by himself, but by the hand of Almighty God: the which is evermore ready to work this work in each soul that is disposed thereto, and that doth that in him is, and hath done long time before, to enable him to this work.
- Chapter 26
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