Message of 1-28-11
Published: Sun, 01/23/11
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
You ask then how I knew He was present, when His ways can in no way
be traced? He is life and power, and as soon as He enters in, He
awakens my slumbering soul; He stirs and soothes and pierces my
heart, for before it was hard as stone, and diseased.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
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LECTIONARY READINGS FOR THE DAY
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Heb 10:32-39; Ps 37:3-4, 5-6, 23-24, 39-40; Mk 4:26-34
R. (39a) The salvation of the just comes from the Lord.
Trust in the LORD and do good,
that you may dwell in the land and be fed in security.
Take delight in the LORD,
and he will grant you your heart's requests.
Commit to the LORD your way;
trust in him, and he will act.
He will make justice dawn for you like the light;
bright as the noonday shall be your vindication.
By the LORD are the steps of a man made firm,
and he approves his way.
Though he fall, he does not lie prostrate,
for the hand of the LORD sustains him.
The salvation of the just is from the LORD;
he is their refuge in time of distress.
And the LORD helps them and delivers them;
he delivers them from the wicked and saves them,
because they take refuge in him.
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MEDITATION ON THE SCRIPTURES
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http://onlineministries.creighton.edu/CollaborativeMinistry/daily.html
O, to be like one of the disciples, to whom Jesus explained
everything in private as the Gospel lesson in Mark tells us. What
did he tell them about the Kingdom of God that he did not tell the
crowds of ordinary people to whom he spoke through parables? Did he
make God's message clearer to them? I don't know the answer to
that. But what can be much clearer than the image of a tiny
mustard seed growing to become a large plant or a kernel of corn
growing to a plant that yields a thousand fold in the harvest?
Even a child can understand these images of the Kingdom of God as a
reality that expands miraculously as our faith grows.
- by Barbara Dilly
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SPIRITUAL READING
- Fenelon's "Maxims of the Saints"
It would be a mistake to suppose, that the highest state of inward
experience is characterized by great excitements, by raptures and
ecstasies, or by any movements of feeling which would be regarded
as particularly extraordinary.
One of the remarkable results in a soul of which faith is the sole
governing principle, is, that it is entirely peaceful. Nothing
disturbs it. And being thus peaceful, it reflects distinctly and
clearly the image of Christ; like the placid lake, which shows, in
its own clear and beautiful bosom, the exact forms of the objects
around and above it. Another is, that having full faith in God and
divested of all selfishness and resistance in itself, it is
perfectly accessible and pliable to all the impressions of grace.
- Artilce 29
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