Message of 6-22-10
Published: Sat, 06/19/10
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
I have always believed that, when God touches a human being, the
experience will survive three tests: 1.) The time test: The person
touched by God will never be the same again...2.) The reality test:
The soul which has been touched by God will not be drawn up into an
other-worldly posture or into bowered ivory towers of private
ecstasy but will be deepened in awareness of the world around...3.)
The charity test: The human being who has opened to God's touch
will be made more God-like by reason of that contact.
- John Powell
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
2 Kgs 19:9b-11, 14-21, 31-35a, 36; Ps 48:2-3ab, 3cd-4, 10-11;
Mt 7:6, 12-14
R. (9d) God upholds his city for ever.
Great is the LORD and wholly to be praised
in the city of our God.
His holy mountain, fairest of heights,
is the joy of all the earth.
Mount Zion, "the recesses of the North,"
is the city of the great King.
God is with her castles;
renowned is he as a stronghold.
O God, we ponder your mercy
within your temple.
As your name, O God, so also your praise
reaches to the ends of the earth.
Of justice your right hand is full.
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GOSPEL MEDITATION
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Do the choices you make help you move towards the goal of loving
God and obeying his will? The Lord gives us freedom to choose which
way we will go. Ask him for the wisdom to know which way will lead
to life rather than to death and destruction. See, I have set
before you this day life and good, death and evil. ...Therefore
choose life that you and your descendants may live (Deuteronmy
3:15-20). Choose this day whom you will serve (Joshua 24:15).
Behold I set before you the way of life and the way of death
(Jeremiah 21:8). If we allow God's love and wisdom to rule our
hearts, then we can trust in his guidance and grace to follow the
path of love and holiness.
"Let me love you, my Lord and my God, and see myself as I really am
- a pilgrim in this world, a Christian called to respect and love
all whose lives I touch, those in authority over me or those under
my authority, my friends and my enemies. Help me to co
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PRAYING WITH SCRIPTURE (Ignatian Method)
A. Preparation: acts of faith and reverence in the presence of God;
asking grace of a good meditation; petition for specific graces
sought in meditation.
B. Reading the Scriptures slowly, prayerfully.
C. Exercise of the memory, imagination, and intellect:
consideration of the material.. What practical applications are
suggested?
D. Expression of feelings and sentiments awakened in meditation.
Conversation with God.
E. Exercise of will and imagination in making resolutions. Prayer
for grace to fulfill resolutions.
F. Vocal prayer (Our Father, Hail Mary, other prayers).
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NOTES ON THE LIFE OF CHRISTIAN PRAYER
2697. Prayer is the life of the new heart. It ought to animate us
at every moment. But we tend to forget him who is our life and our
all. This is why the Fathers of the spiritual life in the
Deuteronomic and prophetic traditions insist that prayer is a
remembrance of God often awakened by the memory of the heart: "We
must remember God more often than we draw breath." (St. Gregory of
Nazianus, "Orat. theo.", 27, 1, 4: PG 36, 16) But we cannot pray
"at all times" if we do not pray at specific times, consciously
willing it. These are the special times of Christian prayer, both
in intensity and duration.
("The Catechism of the Catholic Church," IV, 3)
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