Message of 9-23-10
Published: Fri, 09/17/10
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
It is our great relief that God is not extreme to mark what is done
amiss, that he looks at the motives, and accepts and blesses in
spite of incidental errors.
... John Henry Cardinal Newman (1801-1890), "Letters and
Correspondence of John Henry Newman, v. I"
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LECTIONARY READINGS FOR THE DAY
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Eccl 1:2-11; Ps 90:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 14 and 17bc; Lk 9:7-9
R. (1) In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge.
You turn man back to dust,
saying, "Return, O children of men."
For a thousand years in your sight
are as yesterday, now that it is past,
or as a watch of the night.
You make an end of them in their sleep;
the next morning they are like the changing grass,
Which at dawn springs up anew,
but by evening wilts and fades.
Teach us to number our days aright,
that we may gain wisdom of heart.
Return, O LORD! How long?
Have pity on your servants!
Fill us at daybreak with your kindness,
that we may shout for joy and gladness all our days.
Prosper the work of our hands for us!
Prosper the work of our hands!
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MEDITATION ON THE GOSPEL
from "Praying the Daily Gospels," by Philip St. Romain:
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- Luke 9: 7-9 (Herod's paranoia)
If modern psychology has taught us anything, it is that we cannot
escape the problems of life by burying our feelings. Herod the
Great illustrates this truth. Guilt-ridden because he ordered the
execution of John the Baptist, he begins to believe that John has
risen in the person of Jesus.
- Are there crises and tragedies in your past with which you have
not yet finished dealing? If so, are you willing to seek help to
work your way through them?
- When was the last time you became angry at someone? How did you
resolve the conflict? What did you do with your feelings of anger?
(If you did nothing with them, know that conflicts with this person
will probably return.)
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SPIRITUAL READING
- "Imitation of Christ," by Thomas A. Kempis
The Voice of Christ
Therefore, let carnal and sensual men, who know only how to love
their own selfish joys, forbear to dispute about the state of God's
saints. Such men take away and add according to their own
inclinations and not as it pleases the Eternal Truth. In many this
is sheer ignorance, especially in those who are but little
enlightened and can rarely love anyone with a purely spiritual
love. They are still strongly drawn by natural affection and human
friendship to one person or another, and on their behavior in such
things here below are based their imaginings of heavenly things.
But there is an incomparable distance between the things which the
imperfect imagine and those which enlightened men contemplate
through revelation from above.
- Chapter 58
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