Message of 6-1-15

Published: Mon, 06/01/15

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Monday: June 1, 2015
Message of the Day
God has created me to do him some definite service; he has committed some work to me which he has not committed to another. I have my mission - I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.
- John Henry "Cardinal" Newman

(What is your sense of your “life’s work” at this time? How will you pursue this work today?)
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Readings of the Day
ACTS 14:5-18;    PS 115:1-4, 15-16;    JN 14:21-26

R. Not to us, O Lord, but to your name give the glory.

Not to us, O LORD, not to us
but to your name give glory
because of your mercy, because of your truth.
Why should the pagans say,
“Where is their God?”

Our God is in heaven;
whatever he wills, he does.
Their idols are silver and gold,
the handiwork of men.

May you be blessed by the LORD,
who made heaven and earth.
Heaven is the heaven of the LORD,
but the earth he has given to the children of men.

USCCB lectionary
Reflection on the Scripture
"They left Him and went off." —Mark 12:12

Jesus told a parable which convicted people of their sin (Mk 12:1ff). When Jesus told a parable, He surely desired His hearers would respond by repenting and coming to Him. However, the response to the parable of the tenants was: "They left Him and went off" (Mk 12:12). Jesus' hearers understood exactly what He was saying to them. They simply rejected both Jesus and His message.

How do you respond when Jesus convicts you of your sin? The Lord has long been sending you messengers to speak His Word to you (see Mk 12:2-4). He keeps talking of your sin not to condemn and punish you, but in order to save you (see Jn 3:17; Rm 8:1).

Prayer: Father, I lay my pride, my will, heart, soul, and mind at the foot of Jesus' cross. Give me only Your love and Your grace in return.

Promise: "Happy the one who fears the Lord, who greatly delights in His commands." —Ps 112:1

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Spiritual Reading
NOTES ON THE LIFE OF CHRISTIAN PRAYER
 
2717.  Contemplative prayer is silence, the "symbol of the world to come" or "silent love." Words in this kind of prayer are not speeches; they are like kindling that feeds the fire of love. In this silence, unbearable to the "outer" man, the Father speaks to us his incarnate Word, who suffered, died, and rose; in this silence the Spirit of adoption enables us to share in the prayer of Jesus.
- The Catechism of the Catholic Church, IV, 3, 1)

- part 22 of 24

The Catechism of the Catholic Church, IV
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