Message of 11-26-10
Published: Wed, 11/17/10
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
I believe that God both wills and is able to bring good out of
everything, even the worst. For this He needs people who are
prepared to allow everything to be served for the best. I believe
that in every crisis God wants to provide us with as much power of
resistance as we need. But God never gives it in advance so that we
will entrust ourselves. I believe that even our mistakes and
wrongdoing are not fruitless and that it is no more difficult for
God to cope with them than with our presumed good deeds. I believe
that God is no "timeless fate" but, rather, that he waits upon and
responds to our sincere prayer and responsible deeds.
- Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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LECTIONARY READINGS FOR THE DAY
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Rv 20:1-4, 11--21:2; Ps 84:3, 4, 5-6a and 8a; Lk 21:29-33
R. (Rev. 21:3b) Here God lives among his people.
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!
They go from strength to strength.
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MEDITATION ON THE SCRIPTURES
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In today's Gospel, Christ tells yet another parable using the fig
tree as an example. When the fig tree blooms, He explains, have
burst open, summer cannot be far away. Neither then is the Kingdom
of God when they see "these things" happening. And what were these
things? This verse is followed closely by the beginning of the
Passion.
In fact, Christ's image of the Kingdom of God motivated all that He
did. (Cannato, Judy, "Field of Compassion," 2010). "I must preach
the good news of the kingdom of God to the other cities, for I was
sent for this purpose." (Luke 4:43) Jesus does not preach
here-after vision but rather a here-now Kingdom of God where God's
will for all of humanity is being realized by the intention of
human beings to join with God in co-creativity. Precisely when and
how to do that is revealed to us each day If we are looking for
the kind of activities that may be involved, we can read the
account in Luke of Jesus in the synagogue in Nazareth when the
words of Isaiah were read. (Luke 4:18-21).
- by Maryanne Rouse
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SPIRITUAL READING
- Fenelon's "Maxims of the Saints"
The holy soul delights in acts of contemplation; to think of God
and of God only. But the contemplative state, without any
interruption, is hardly consistent with the condition of the
present life. It may be permitted to exist, however, and ought not
to be resisted, when the attraction towards God is so strong, that
we find ourselves incapable of profitably employing our minds in
meditative and discursive acts.
- Artilce 22
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