Message of 3-10-11
Published: Sat, 03/05/11
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
It is often supposed that when people stop believing in God, they
believe in nothing. Alas, it is worse than that. When they stop
believing in God, they believe in anything.
- Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
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LECTIONARY READINGS FOR THE DAY
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Dt 30:15-20; Ps 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6; Lk 9:22-25
R. (40:5a) Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.
Blessed the man who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.
He is like a tree
planted near running water,
That yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
Whatever he does, prospers.
Not so the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.
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MEDITATION ON THE GOSPEL
- from "Daily Bread"
http://www.preacherexchange.com/daily_bread.htm
"I have today set before you life and prosperity, death and doom."
Sometimes we are more comfortable believing that we are without
choices. To be able to blame someone else for our place in the
world, our "bad luck," even our sins, is comforting. Every day we
make hundreds of choices -- what we eat, wear, where we go and how
we get there and what we do when we arrive -- so many choices, each
one toward gaining the world or gaining eternal life.
"Lord Jesus, live in me and make me mindful so that I may always
choose you."
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SPIRITUAL READING
- "Imitation of Christ," by Thomas A. Kempis
- The Disciple
It is indeed necessary for me, who fall and sin so often, who so
quickly become lax and weak, to renew, cleanse, and inflame myself
through frequent prayer, confession, and the holy reception of Your
Body, lest perhaps by abstaining too long, I fall away from my holy
purpose. For from the days of his youth the senses of man are prone
to evil, and unless divine aid strengthens him, he quickly falls
deeper. But Holy Communion removes him from evil and confirms him in
good.
- Book 4, Chapter 3
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