Message of the Day
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Don't pray to escape trouble. Don't pray to be comfortable in your emotions. Pray to do the will of God in every situation. Nothing else is worth praying for.
-Samuel M. Shoemaker
(God's will = God's intention for your life and actions. What does this mean for you today?)
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Readings of the Day
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ACTS 11:1-18; PS 42:2-3; 43:3, 4; JN 10:11-18
R. Athirst is my soul for the living God.
As the hind longs for the running waters,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
Athirst is my soul for God, the living God.
When shall I go and behold the face of God?
Send forth your light and your fidelity;
they shall lead me on
And bring me to your holy mountain,
to your dwelling-place.
Then will I go in to the altar of God,
the God of my gladness and joy;
Then will I give you thanks upon the harp,
O God, my God!
USCCB lectionary
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Reflection on the Gospel
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If then God gave them the same gift he gave to us when we came to believe in the Lord Jesus Christ, who was I to be able to hinder God?
There is really no room
for envy within the Christian community, but even so, it shows up. It shows up when a young singer with a gorgeous voice joins an established choir. It shows up when a catechumen exhibits a gift for theological discourse. It shows up when a freshly ordained priest draws a crowd. Young folks: Be respectful! There is much to learn from the wisdom of your elders. Old folks: Move over! God is still speaking and God is in charge.
For the gift of humility and wisdom as we tend to the important task of building the kingdom and proclaiming the good news.
Paige Byrne Shortal
Daily Bread
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Spiritual Reading
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The Book of Supreme Truth, by St. John of Rusybroeck (1293-1381)
And so you may perceive that the Divine Nature
eternally works according to the Persons, and is eternally idle and wayless according to the simplicity of Its Essence. All therefore that God has chosen and laid hold of with eternal personal love, has already been essentially and fruitively possessed of Him in unity with essential love. For the Divine Persons are enfolded within the Unity in a mutual embrace in an eternal contentment, in abysmal active love. And this is perpetually renewed in the lifegiving life of the Trinity; for here there
takes place a perpetual new birth in new knowledge new contentment and new outbreathing; in a new embrace with new torrents of Eternal Love. In this contentment all the chosen are enfolded: angels and men, from the first even to the last. Upon this contentment depend heaven and earth, and life and being and the activity and preservation of all creatures, save only the tendency to turn from God in sin: this comes from the willful and blind wickedness of the creatures. From the Divine contentment
grace and glory and all gifts pour forth in heaven and on earth, and into each creature separately, according to its needs and its receptivity.
- Chapter 10: Of the mutual contentment of the Divine Persons, and the mutual contentment between God and good people. Amazon.com link
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