Message of 9-10-10
Published: Sat, 09/04/10
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
How completely satisfying to turn from our limitations to a God who
has none.... For Him time does not pass, it remains.... God never
hurries. There are no deadlines against which He must work. To know
this is to quiet our spirits and relax our nerves.
- A. W. Tozer
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LECTIONARY READINGS FOR THE DAY
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
1 Cor 9:16-19, 22b-27; Ps 84:3, 4, 5-6, 12; Lk 6:39-42
R. (2) How lovely is your dwelling place, Lord, mighty God!
My soul yearns and pines
for the courts of the LORD.
My heart and my flesh
cry out for the living God.
Even the sparrow finds a home,
and the swallow a nest
in which she puts her young—
Your altars, O LORD of hosts,
my king and my God!
Blessed they who dwell in your house!
continually they praise you.
Blessed the men whose strength you are!
their hearts are set upon the pilgrimage.
For a sun and a shield is the LORD God;
grace and glory he bestows;
The LORD withholds no good thing
from those who walk in sincerity.
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MEDITATION ON THE SCRIPTURES
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http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
There are many messages buried in today's texts, but I would
summarize this rather winding reflection of what I heard with
several points: The Spirit of God is given to us by Christ to
bring us to a relationship with him so intimate that we are
identified with Him in all things. That same Spirit will teach us
to SEE what we need to know about ourselves and others, to SPEAK
what we need to say, and above all to ACT in a way that
demonstrates that we belong to Christ.
Come Holy Spirit, give us the fire of your love of Christ and the
Father, instill in us the discipline to run the race faithfully,
and grant the discrimination to recognize our own boards ahead of
the splinters of our neighbors. Amen.
- by Eileen Burke-Sullivan
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SPIRITUAL READING
- Fenelon's "Maxims of the Saints"
The soul, in the state of pure love, acts in simplicity. Its
inward rule of action is found in the decisions of a sanctified
conscience. These decisions, based upon judgments that are free
from self-interest, may not always be absolutely right, because our
views and judgments, being limited, can extend only to things in
part; but they may be said to be relatively right: they conform to
things so far as we are permitted to see them and understand them,
and convey to the soul a moral assurance, that, when we act in
accordance with them, we are doing as God would have us do. Such a
conscience is enlightened by the Spirit of God; and when we act
thus, under its Divine guidance, looking at what now is and not at
what may be, looking at the right of things and not at their
relations to our personal and selfish interests, we are said to act
in simplicity. This is the true mode of action.
Thus, in this singleness of spirit, we do things, as some
experimental writers express it, without knowing what we do. We are
so absorbed in the thing to be done, and in the importance of doing
it rightly, that we forget ourselves. Perfect love has nothing to
spare from its object for itself, and he who prays perfectly is
never thinking how well he prays.
- Article 13
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