Message of 11-23-10
Published: Wed, 11/17/10
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
If God be our God, He will give us peace in trouble. When there is
a storm without, He will make peace within. The world can create
trouble in peace, but God can create peace in trouble.
- Thomas Watson
(Take time to simply be present to this God of peace. Surrender
your cares and anxieties to God, allowing the peace of Christ to
take root within.)
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LECTIONARY READINGS FOR THE DAY
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Rv 14:14-19; Ps 96:10, 11-12, 13; Lk 21:5-11
R. (13b) The Lord comes to judge the earth.
Say among the nations: The LORD is king.
He has made the world firm, not to be moved;
he governs the peoples with equity.
Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;
let the sea and what fills it resound;
let the plains be joyful and all that is in them!
Then shall all the trees of the forest exult.
Before the LORD, for he comes;
for he comes to rule the earth.
He shall rule the world with justice
and the peoples with his constancy.
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REFLECTION ON THE GOSPEL
- from http://www.dailyscripture.net/
We often don't recognize the moral crisis and spiritual conflict of
our age, until something "shakes us up" to the reality of our
present condition. The reward for doing what is right and just and
the penalty for sin and wrong-doing are not always experienced in
this life; but they are sure to come in the day of judgment. The
Lord Jesus tells us that there will be persecution, suffering, and
difficulties in this age until he comes again at the end of the
world. God intends our anticipation of his final judgment to be a
powerful deterrent to wrongdoing. God extends grace and mercy to
all who will heed his call and his warning. Do you take advantage
of this season of grace and mercy to seek God's kingdom and to
pursue his will?
"Lord Jesus, your grace and mercy abounds even in the midst of
turmoil and destruction. Increase my hunger for your kingdom and
help me to be faithful to your word. May nothing, not even the fear
of death or the loss of all that I have, deter me from seeking you
and the coming of your kingdom with hope and joy."
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SPIRITUAL READING
- Notes on Christian Prayer
2717. Contemplative prayer is silence, the "symbol of the world to
come" or "silent love." Words in this kind of prayer are not
speeches; they are like kindling that feeds the fire of love. In
this silence, unbearable to the "outer" man, the Father speaks to
us his incarnate Word, who suffered, died, and rose; in this
silence the Spirit of adoption enables us to share in the prayer of
Jesus.
("The Catechism of the Catholic Church," IV, 3, 1)
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