Message of 10-11-10
Published: Sun, 10/10/10
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
For each of us the time is surely coming when we shall have nothing
but God. Health and wealth and friends and hiding places will all
be swept away, and we shall have only God. To the person of pseudo
faith that is a terrifying thought, but to real faith it is one of
the most comforting thoughts the heart can entertain.
- A. W. Tozer
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LECTIONARY READINGS FOR THE DAY
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Gal 4:22-24, 26-27, 31-5:1; Ps 113:1b-2, 3-4, 5a and 6-7; Lk
11:29-32
R. (see 2) Blessed be the name of the Lord forever.
Praise, you servants of the LORD,
praise the name of the LORD.
Blessed be the name of the LORD
both now and forever.
From the rising to the setting of the sun
is the name of the LORD to be praised.
High above all nations is the LORD;
above the heavens is his glory.
Who is like the LORD, our God,
who looks upon the heavens and the earth below?
He raises up the lowly from the dust;
from the dunghill he lifts up the poor.
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REFLECTION ON THE GOSPEL
- from "Daily Bread"
http://www.preacherexchange.com/daily_bread.htm
"For freedom Christ set us free; so stand firm and do not submit
again to the yoke of slavery."
Christ suffered and died for us so that we may be free. Putting
external conditions on what that means doesn't bring us any closer
to salvation. Quite simply, Paul exhorts us to have faith and to
live by promise. Adherence to anything else is just another form
of slavery. Paul warns us about attaching requirements to
righteousness such as circumcision and arbitrary laws, and goes so
far as to equate such demands to ways that separate us from Christ.
It's God's love, not inconsistent human inventions, legalities or
codes, that defines what we're called to do and who we're called to
be.
"May the Spirit of love guide us, we pray."
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SPIRITUAL READING
The Adornment of the Spiritual Marriage
by St. John of Rusybroeck (1293-1381)
Now these three unities, as one kingdom and one eternal
dwelling-place, are adorned and inhabited in a supernatural way by
the moral virtues through charity and the active life. And they are
still more gloriously adorned and more excellently perfected by
inward exercises united with a spiritual life. But they are most
gloriously and blessedly adorned by a supernatural and
contemplative life.
The lowest unity, being of the body, is supernaturally adorned and
perfected through outward works and moral perfection, according to
the way of Christ and His saints: and through bearing the cross
with Christ, and through subordinating nature discreetly according
to its powers to the commandments of Holy Church and to the
doctrines of the saints.
The second unity, being in the spirit and wholly spiritual, is
supernaturally adorned and perfected through the three divine
virtues, Faith, Hope, and Charity; and through the inflow of the
grace and the gifts of God; and through a good-will to follow the
examples of Christ and Holy Christendom in all virtues.
The third and highest unity is above the comprehension of our
reason, and yet essentially within us. We possess it in a
supernatural way when in all our works of virtue we have in mind
the praise and glory of God, and above all aims, above ourselves,
and above all things would rest only in Him. This is that unity
wherefrom we have come forth as creatures, and wherein, according
to our being, we are at home. And by means of the virtues here
named, these three unities are adorned in the active life.
- Book 2, Chapter 2: Of a three-fold unity which is in us by nature.
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