Message of the Day
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Do now, do now, what you will wish to have done when your moment comes to die.
- Angela Merici
(What would this be for you?)
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Readings of the Day
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1 KGS 17:1-6; PS 121:1-8; MT 5:1-12
R. Our help is from the Lord, who made heaven and earth.
I lift up my eyes toward the mountains;
whence shall help come to me?
My help is from the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
May he not suffer your foot to slip;
may he slumber not who guards you:
Indeed he neither slumbers nor sleeps,
the guardian of Israel.
The LORD is your guardian; the LORD is your shade;
he is beside you at your right hand.
The sun shall not harm you by day,
nor the moon by night.
The LORD will guard you from all evil;
he will guard your
life.
The LORD will guard your coming and your going,
both now and forever.
USCCB lectionary
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Reflection on the Gospel
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He began to teach them.
If we want true happiness, and holiness, we need to follow Jesus more closely. The beatitudes provide a blueprint of how to live our Christian vocation. They call us to a higher standard, one rooted in love and humility. The beatitudes demand that we move beyond merely avoiding what we shouldn't do and purposely strive to do God's will.
They're a law of love highlighting our total dependence on God. To live the beatitudes is to make a commitment that we will be undivided in our loyalties. It's the answer to our call to stand for what's right, and to our obligation to be compassionate, forgiving and helpful to those who suffer.
Teach us your ways, O Lord, we pray.
Patricia Russell
Daily Bread
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Spiritual Reading
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The Book of Supreme Truth, by St. John of Rusybroeck (1293-1381)
They have the Love of God before them in their inward seeing, as a common good pouring forth through heaven and
earth; and they feel the Holy Trinity inclined towards them, and within them, with fulness of grace. And therefore they are adorned without and within with all the virtues, with holy practices and with good works. And thus they are united with God through Divine grace and their own holy lives. And because they have abandoned themselves to God in doing, in leaving undone, and in suffering, they have steadfast peace and inward joy, consolation and savour, of which the world cannot partake;
neither any dissembler, nor the man who seeks and means himself more than the glory of God. Moreover, those same inward and enlightened men have before them in their inward seeing whenever they will, the Love of God as something drawing or urging them into the Unity; for they see and feel that the Father with the Son through the Holy Ghost, embrace Each Other and all the chosen, and draw themselves back with eternal love into the unity of Their Nature.
- Chapter 10: How good men in their contemplation have the love of God before them, and how they are lifted up into
God. Amazon.com link
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