Message of 1-13-15

Published: Tue, 01/13/15

Message of the Day

Those who complain that they make no progress in the life of prayer because they “cannot meditate” should examine, not their capacity for meditation, but their capacity for suffering and love. For there is a hard and costly element, a deep seriousness, a crucial choice, in all genuine religion.

... Evelyn Underhill (1875-1941), The School of Charity

(How does sacrificial love influence your prayer life . . . and vice versa?)

Daily Readings

HEB 2:5-12; PS 8:2AB AND 5, 6-7, 8-9; MK 1:21-28

R. You have given your Son rule over the works of your hands.

O LORD, our Lord,

how glorious is your name over all the earth!

What is man that you should be mindful of him,

or the son of man that you should care for him?

You have made him little less than the angels,

and crowned him with glory and honor.

You have given him rule over the works of your hands,

putting all things under his feet.

All sheep and oxen,

yes, and the beasts of the field,

The birds of the air, the fishes of the sea,

and whatever swims the paths of the seas.

USCCB Lectionary

Reflection on the Scriptures

The Gospel points to the authority with which Jesus spoke and acted, an authority that flowed from his “being” and “doing” as much as from what he said. His embrace of God’s spoken and written word, and his interpretation of it from the life of compassion that he lived offer us a way to understand our vocation of partnership in “living into” God’s reign by imitating Jesus’ humanity through the grace supplied by his divinity. Our authority to serve and save the created order hinges on our participation in bringing about God’s reign, on earth as it is in heaven by serving one another and all of creation in the manner that Jesus did.

Whatever our service vocation (ordained, married, parenting, teaching etc.) our baptismal vocation births us into a union with Jesus’ humanity and divinity that empowers us with the powers to share in Jesus’ authority of proclaimer of God’s Will (prophet), healer of God’s creation (priest) and servant of God’s people (king) which should simply take our breath away with the humbling and ennobling truth that Psalm 8 proclaims today:

“You have made [humans] little less than the angels, and crowned him with glory and honor.”

- by Eileen Burke-Sullivan

Creighton Online Ministries

Spiritual Reading

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

O, You who are ever

giving life to all life,

moving all creatures,

root of all things,

washing them clean,

wiping out their mistakes,

healing their wounds,

You are our true life,

luminous, wonderful

awakening the heart

from its ancient sleep.

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