Message of 1-11-11
Published: Mon, 01/10/11
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
Satan's number one weapon is pride. God's number one defense is
humility.
- Larry Burkett
[Humility (adjectival form: humble) is the quality of being modest,
reverential, even politely submissive, and never being arrogant,
contemptuous, rude or even self-abasing. . . The term "humility"
comes from the Latin word humilitas, a noun related to the
adjective humilis, which may be translated as "humble", but also as
"low", "from the earth", or "humid", since it derives in turns from
humus (earth). ]
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LECTIONARY READINGS FOR THE DAY
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Heb 2:5-12; Ps 8:2ab and 5, 6-7, 8-9; Mk 1:21-28
R. (see 7) You have given your Son rule over the works of your
hands.
O LORD, our Lord,
how glorious is your name over all the earth!
What is man that you should be mindful of him,
or the son of man that you should care for him?
You have made him little less than the angels,
and crowned him with glory and honor.
You have given him rule over the works of your hands,
putting all things under his feet.
All sheep and oxen,
yes, and the beasts of the field,
The birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,
and whatever swims the paths of the seas.
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REFLECTION ON THE GOSPEL
- from http://www.dailyscripture.net/
Faith is both a free gift of God and the free assent of our will to
the whole truth that God has revealed. To live, grow, and persevere
in the faith to the end, we must nourish it with the word of God.
The Lord gives us his Holy Spirit to enlighten our minds that we
may grow in his truth and in the knowledge of his great love for
each of us. If we approach God's word submissively, with an
eagerness to do everything the Lord desires, we are in a much
better position to learn what God wants to teach us through his
word. Are you eager to be taught by the Lord and to conform your
life according to his word?
"Lord Jesus, your word is power and life. May I never doubt your
saving love and mercy, and the power of your word to bring healing
and deliverance to those in need."
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SPIRITUAL READING
"The Way of Perfection"
- by Teresa of Avila (1515-1582)
(Treats of how the necessities of the body should be disregarded
and of the good that comes from poverty.)
Remember, sisters, that this will be important when I am dead; and
that is why I am leaving it to you in writing. For, with God's
help, as long as I live, I will remind you of it myself, as I know
by experience what a great help it will be to you. It is when I
possess least that I have the fewest worries and the Lord knows
that, as far as I can tell, I am more afflicted when there is
excess of anything than when there is lack of it; I am not sure if
that is the Lord's doing, but I have noticed that He provides for
us immediately. To act otherwise would be to deceive the world by
pretending to be poor when we are not poor in spirit but only
outwardly. My conscience would give me a bad time. It seems to me
it would be like stealing what was being given us, as one might
say; for I should feel as if we were rich people asking alms:
please God this may never be so. Those who worry too much about the
alms that they are likely to be given will find that sooner or
later this bad habit will lead them to go and ask for something
which they do not need, and perhaps from someone who needs it more
than they do. Such a person would gain rather than lose by giving
it us but we should certainly be the worse off for having it. God
forbid this should ever happen, my daughters; if it were likely to
do so, I should prefer you to have a regular income.
I beg you, for the love of God, just as if I were begging alms for
you, never to allow this to occupy your thoughts. If the very least
of you ever hears of such a thing happening in this house, cry out
about it to His Majesty and speak to your Superior. Tell her humbly
that she is doing wrong; this is so serious a matter that it may
cause true poverty gradually to disappear. I hope in the Lord that
this will not be so and that He will not forsake His servants; and
for that reason, if for no other, what you have told me to write
may be useful to you as a reminder.
- Chapter 2
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