Message of 12-9-14

Published: Tue, 12/09/14

Message of the Day

To say that we must wait for the other world, to know the mind of Him who came to this world to give Himself to us, seems to me the foolishness of a worldly and lazy spirit. The Son of God is the teacher, giving to us of His Spirit -- that Spirit which manifests the deep things of God, being to us the mind of Christ.

- George MacDonald

(What do you seek to know of Christ? Ask the Spirit to open your mind to receive this knowledge.)

Daily Readings

IS 40:1-11; PS 96:1-3, 10-13; MT 18:12-14

R. The Lord our God comes with power.

Sing to the LORD a new song;

sing to the LORD, all you lands.

Sing to the LORD; bless his name;

announce his salvation, day after day.

Tell his glory among the nations;

among all peoples, his wondrous deeds.

Say among the nations: The LORD is king;

he governs the peoples with equity.

Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;

let the sea and what fills it resound;

let the plains be joyful and all that is in them!

Then let all the trees of the forest rejoice.

They shall exult before the LORD, for he comes;

for he comes to rule the earth.

He shall rule the world with justice

and the peoples with his constancy.

USCCB Lectionary

Reflection on the Scriptures

We are in the second week of Advent, that season of anticipation when we wait eagerly for the celebration of Jesus’ birth that occurred a couple thousand years ago. Although today’s reading of Isaiah is a beautiful reminder of God’s coming to his people, at the time it was not a reminder but a prediction.

I find it impossible to comprehend that 700 to 800 years before Jesus’ birth, the prophet Isaiah was telling his people, “A voice cries out in the desert, prepare the way of the Lord!” Their anticipation was not of a celebration of what occurred years previously, but of what was yet to come.

There are billions of people who have lived and died from the time of Isaiah’s prophecy to now. Each of us is like a lamb known by the shepherd who will lovingly tend to us and hold us close. What an awesome vision that is in my imagination, an unending sea of people each intimately known and loved by God.

- by Susan Tinley

Creighton Online Ministries

Spiritual Reading

Selected Quotes from the Writings of St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)

• Divinity is aimed at humanity.

• "With my mouth," God says, "I kiss my own chosen creation.

I uniquely, lovingly, embrace every image I have made out of the earth’s clay.

With a fiery spirit I transform it into a body to serve all the world."

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