Message of 7-7-15

Published: Tue, 07/07/15

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Tuesday: July 7, 2015
Message of the Day

This loving God truly invades, us, no longer as an idea or a thought, but as the Source of all life. He drives out of our hearts all vestige of sin and darkness and transforms us into His loving light. As we get caught up inside of God’s invading energies of love, we find ourselves gradually being consumed by the Trinity’s mutual love for each other and for us. We become a prism by which God can radiate His love to all that we touch.
- George Maloney, Uncreated Energy

(This is what the Christian spiritual life is all about. Pray the grace to be a “prism by which God can radiate His love to all” through you this day.)
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Daily Readings
 
GN 32:23-33;    PS 17:1-3, 6-8B, 15;    MT 9:32-38

R. In justice, I shall behold your face, O Lord.

Hear, O LORD, a just suit;
attend to my outcry;
hearken to my prayer from lips without deceit.

From you let my judgment come;
your eyes behold what is right.
Though you test my heart, searching it in the night,
though you try me with fire, you shall find no malice in me.

I call upon you, for you will answer me, O God;
incline your ear to me; hear my word.
Show your wondrous mercies,
O savior of those who flee from their foes.

Hide me in the shadow of your wings.
I in justice shall behold your face;
on waking, I shall be content in your presence. 
R. In justice, I shall behold your face, O Lord.

USCCB Lectionary
 Reflection on the Scriptures
 
The Bible contains stories of faith heroes like Jacob, the woman who touched the hem on Jesus’ cloak, and the official who thought his daughter had died. Their faith was not just a profession of belief. It was an active faith in a time of distress and despair. It was made active by their courage. If we read the words of the Psalm several times today and actively apply them to our own lives, we will see where we need to be more courageous in placing our trust in God. Is it our fear of a new journey in life like the one Jacob confronted? Is it the distress of ill health? Is it the despair over the death of a loved one? Is it refuge from an ever present temptation? What ever it is, Jesus calls us to pray courageously, “In you, my God, I place my trust.”
 
- by Barbara Dilly
 

Creighton Online Ministries

SPIRITUAL READING

 

Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of Norwich

   
Chapter 2

“A simple creature unlettered.—Which creature afore desired three gifts of God”

THESE Revelations were shewed to a simple creature unlettered, the year of our Lord 1373, the Thirteenth day of May. Which creature [had] afore desired three gifts of God. The First was mind of His Passion; the Second was bodily sickness in youth, at thirty years of age; the Third was to have of God’s gift three wounds.

As to the First, methought I had some feeling in the Passion of Christ, but yet I desired more by the grace of God. Methought I would have been that time with Mary Magdalene, and with other that were Christ’s lovers, and therefore I desired a bodily sight wherein I might have more knowledge of the bodily pains of our Saviour and of the compassion of our Lady and of all His true lovers that saw, that time, His pains. For I would be one of them and suffer with Him. Other sight nor shewing of God desired I never none, till the soul were disparted from the body. The cause of this petition was that after the shewing I should have the more true mind in the Passion of Christ.

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