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Message of the Day
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"Desire only Love and walk your days
with the Beloved;
you will radiate with joy, blessing
others with Love's presence;
you will know not loneliness with
Love's Companioning Presence."
- Nan Merrill, Psalms for Praying
(Slowly ponder these words . . . Pray your response in gratitude.)
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Lectionary Readings
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1 COR 3:18-23; PS 24:1BC-2, 3-4AB, 5-6; LK
5:1-11
R. To the Lord belongs the earth and all that fills it.
The LORD's are the earth and its fullness;
the world and those who dwell in it.
For he founded it upon the seas
and established it upon the rivers.
Who can ascend the mountain of the LORD?
or who may stand in his holy place?
He whose hands are sinless, whose heart is clean,
who desires not what is vain.
He shall receive a blessing from the LORD,
a reward
from God his savior.
Such is the race that seeks for him,
that seeks the face of the God of Jacob.
USCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Gospel
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God chooses ordinary people, like you and me, as
his ambassadors and he uses the ordinary circumstances of our daily lives and work situations to draw others into his kingdom. Jesus speaks the same message to us today: we will "catch people" for the kingdom of God if we allow the light of Jesus Christ to shine through us. God wants others to see the light of Christ in us in the way we live, speak, and witness the joy of the Gospel. Paul the Apostles says, "But thanks be to God, who in Christ Jesus always leads us in triumph, and through us
spreads the fragrance of the knowledge of him everywhere. For we are the aroma of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing" (2 Corinthians 2:15).
Do you witness to those around you the joy of the Gospel and do you pray for your neighbors, co-workers, and relatives that they may come to know the Lord Jesus Christ and grow in the knowledge of his love and
truth?
"Lord Jesus, fill my heart with love and compassion for those who do not know you or follow you. May I be a good witness of your truth and salvation to my family, friends, and co-workers."
DailyScripture.Net
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Spiritual Reading
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The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous Of three means in
the which a contemplative Prentice should be occupied, in reading, thinking, and praying.
Nevertheless, means there be in the which a contemplative prentice should be occupied, the which be these-Lesson, Meditation, and Orison: or else to thine understanding they may be called-Reading, Thinking, and Praying. Of these three thou shalt find written in another book of another man's work, much better than I can tell
thee; and therefore it needeth not here to tell thee of the qualities of them. But this may I tell thee: these three be so coupled together, that unto them that be beginners and profiters-but not to them that be perfect, yea, as it may be here-thinking may not goodly be gotten, without reading or hearing coming before. All is one in manner, reading and hearing: clerks reading on books, and lewd men reading on clerks when they hear them preach the word of God. Nor prayer may not goodly be gotten
in beginners and profiters, without thinking coming before.
- Chapter 35
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