Message of 2-10-11
Published: Mon, 02/07/11
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
After a hard day scrambling to find your way around in the world,
it's assuring to come home to a place you know. God can be equally
familiar to you. With time you can learn where to go for
nourishment, where to hide for protection , where to turn for
guidance. Just as your earthly house is a place of refuge, so God's
house is a place of peace.
- Max Lucado
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LECTIONARY READINGS FOR THE DAY
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Gn 2:18-25; Ps 128:1-2, 3, 4-5; Mk 7:24-30
R. (see 1a) Blessed are those who fear the Lord.
Blessed are you who fear the LORD,
who walk in his ways!
For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork;
blessed shall you be, and favored.
Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine
in the recesses of your home;
Your children like olive plants
around your table.
Behold, thus is the man blessed
who fears the LORD.
The LORD bless you from Zion:
may you see the prosperity of Jerusalem
all the days of your life.
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MEDITATION ON THE GOSPEL
- from "Daily Bread"
http://www.preacherexchange.com/daily_bread.htm
"This one shall be called 'woman.'"
Let's consider the women. In Genesis we read about the creation of
the first woman, and in the Gospel, the Syrophoenician woman begs
Jesus to heal her daughter. And today we remember St. Scholastica,
virgin and twin to St. Benedict, whom storytellers love because of
a trick she played on her brother. They met once a year in a house
near both of their monasteries, and she, sensing that she would die
within a few days, asked Benedict to stay through the night
conversing on matters spiritual. He refused, so she prayed to God,
who sent a fierce storm that forced him to stay. The author of
Genesis sensed that women are the ones who push the envelope and
credited Eve with breaking God's rule. Likewise, the woman of
today's Gospel dares not only to approach Jesus for the healing of
her woman child, but even argues with him when he refuses.
"For women everywhere, that they may dedicate their strength to the
well-being of those who depend on them."
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SPIRITUAL READING
- "Imitation of Christ," by Thomas A. Kempis
- The Disciple
I praise You, my God, and extol You forever! I despise myself and
cast myself before You in the depths of my unworthiness. Behold,
You are the Holy of holies, and I the scum of sinners! Behold, You
bow down to me who am not worthy to look up to You! Behold, You
come to me! You will to be with me! You invite me to Your banquet!
You desire to give me heavenly food, the Bread of Angels to eat,
none other than Yourself, the living Bread Who are come down from
heaven and give life to the world.
- Book 4, Chapter 2
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