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"Making beauty in life requires we attend to beauty, and that we let beauty transform us. The work that beauty does in us is God's work. It is sacred. And our work to make life beautiful by attending to the soul's need for beauty involves contemplation and the finest
attention to the particularities of life; this is holy work."
- Catherine Michaud, The Art of Making Life Beautiful -
(What kind of beauty feeds your soul? Let yourself be nourished this day.)
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EZ 28:1-10; DT 32:26-28, 30, 35-36; MT 19:23-30
R. It is I who deal death and give life.
"I would have said, 'I will make an end of them
and blot out their name from men's memories,'
Had I not feared the insolence of their enemies,
feared that these foes would mistakenly
boast."
"'Our own hand won the victory;
the LORD had nothing to do with it.'"
For they are a people devoid of reason,
having no understanding.
"How could one man rout a thousand,
or two men put ten thousand to flight,
Unless it was because their Rock sold them
and the LORD delivered them up?"
Close at hand is the day of their disaster,
and their doom is rushing upon them!
Surely, the LORD shall do justice for his
people;
on his servants he shall have pity.
USCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Scriptures |
Today's second reading from Matthew is one that is familiar to many of us. In this reading, Jesus talks to his disciples about how we may enter the kingdom of heaven; specifically, Jesus notes that "It is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God." So, is Jesus saying that the accumulation of wealth is bad and with it we may never enter his kingdom? I
do not necessarily think so. Possessing material wealth is fine as long as we keep the proper perspective, know these gifts come from God (unlike the prince of Tyre from our first reading), and understand that we must use our riches in a manner consistent with God's teachings. By doing this, we are able to exchange our material wealth for something of greater value - that being spiritual wealth and with it "receive a hundred times more and...inherit eternal
life."- by Michael Kavan
Creighton Online Ministries
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Selected Quotes from the Writings of St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)
Love abounds in all things,
excels from the depths to beyond the stars,
is lovingly disposed to all things.
She has given the king on high
the kiss of peace.
-" Caritas abundat"
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