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Message of the Day
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"Faith is a habit of mind, which begins eternal life in us, and induces a reasonable assent to things unseen."
(St. Thomas Aquinas [13th C]: "Disputations Concerning Truth," 14, 2)
and. . .
"By faith the
Christian soul enters, as it were, into marriage with God: 'I will espouse the to me in faith {Hos. 2, 20}.'"
(St. Thomas Aquinas: "Exposition of the Apostles' Creed")
(Consider the great gift that faith really is and what it makes possible. Pray the grace to grow in faith.)
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Lectionary Readings
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SIR 48:1-14; PS 97:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7; MT 6:7-15
R. Rejoice in the Lord, you just!
The LORD is king; let the earth
rejoice;
let the many isles be glad.
Clouds and darkness are round about him,
justice and judgment are the foundation of his throne.
Fire goes before him
and consumes his foes round about.
His lightnings illumine the world;
the earth sees and trembles.
The mountains melt like wax before the LORD,
before the Lord of all the
earth.
The heavens proclaim his justice,
and all peoples see his glory.
All who worship graven things are put to shame,
who glory in the things of nought;
all gods are prostrate before him.
USCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Gospel
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God is kind and
forgiving towards us and he expects us to treat our neighbor the same. Do you treat others as they deserve, or do you treat them as the Lord would treat you with his grace and favor and mercy? Jesus' prayer includes an injunction that we must ask God to forgive us in proportion as we forgive those who have wronged us. Ask the Lord to free your heart of any anger, bitterness, resentment, selfishness, indifference, or coldness towards others. Let the Holy Spirit fill you with the fire of his
burning love and compassion and with the river of his overflowing mercy and kindness.
"Father in heaven, you have given me a mind to know you, a will to serve you, and a heart to love you. Give me today the grace and strength to embrace your holy will and fill my heart with your love that all my intentions and actions may be pleasing to you. Give me the grace to be charitable in thought, kind in deed, and loving in
speech towards all."
DailyScripture.Net
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Spiritual Reading
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The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous Who should blame and condemn other men's defaults.
BUT I pray thee, of whom shall men's deeds be judged?
Surely of them that
have power, and cure of their souls: either given openly by the statute and the ordinance of Holy Church, or else privily in spirit at the special stirring of the Holy Ghost in perfect charity. Each man beware, that he presume not to take upon him to blame and condemn other men's defaults, but if he feel verily that he be stirred of the Holy Ghost within in his work; for else may he full lightly err in his dooms. And therefore beware: judge thyself as thee list betwixt thee and thy God or thy
ghostly father, and let other men alone.- Chapter 30
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