Message of 1-6-15

Published: Tue, 01/06/15

Message of the Day

Accustom yourself gradually to carry Prayer into all your daily occupation -- speak, act, work in peace, as if you were in prayer, as indeed you ought to be.

- Francois Fenelon

(He is not speaking of "saying" prayers, but of "prayerful-ness," which is a steady orientation unto God beyond words, which is established in us through regular times of prayer and meditation.)

Daily Readings

1 JN 4:7-10; PS 72:1-2, 3-4, 7-8; MK 6:34-44

R. Lord, every nation on earth will adore you.

O God, with your judgment endow the king,

and with your justice, the king’s son;

He shall govern your people with justice

and your afflicted ones with judgment.

The mountains shall yield peace for the people,

and the hills justice.

He shall defend the afflicted among the people,

save the children of the poor.

Justice shall flower in his days,

and profound peace, till the moon be no more.

May he rule from sea to sea,

and from the River to the ends of the earth.

USCCB Lectionary

Reflection on the Scriptures

Christianity grew from just a few hundred individuals (at most) at the Resurrection to majority status in the Roman empire in under 300 years – precisely because it brought good news to a world blanketed by a pall of despair. The world is as hungry to hear that message now as it was in Paul’s time. It was hungry for it nineteen centuries later when Lorenz Hart composed those sad lyrics. And Paul, quoting Isaiah, blessed those who bring the good news, reminding his converts (and us) “How can they hear unless there is someone to proclaim [it]” (Romans 10:15)

What good news we have to share! Lord, open our mouths! Give us the words you want us to bring to our world!

- by Robert Heaney

Creighton Online Ministries

Spiritual Reading

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

The earth is at the same time mother,

she is mother of all that is natural,

mother of all that is human.

She is the mother of all,

for contained in her are the seeds of all.

The earth of humankind contains all moisture,

all verdancy, all germinating power.

It is in so many ways fruitful.

All creation comes from it.

Yet it forms not only the basic raw materials

for humankind, but also

the substance of Incarnation.

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