Message of 7-27-15

Published: Mon, 07/27/15

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Monday: July 27, 2015
Message of the Day
God sometimes shuts the door and shuts us in, 
    that He may speak, perchance through grief or pain, 
and softly, heart to heart, above the din, 
    may tell some precious thought to us again. 
                - Anonymous 

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Readings of the Day
EX 32:15-24, 30-34;    PS 106:19-20, 21-22, 23/    MT 13:31-35

R. Give thanks to the Lord, for he is good.

Our fathers made a calf in Horeb
and adored a molten image;
They exchanged their glory
for the image of a grass-eating bullock.

They forgot the God who had saved them,
who had done great deeds in Egypt,
Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham,
terrible things at the Red Sea.

Then he spoke of exterminating them,
but Moses, his chosen one,
Withstood him in the breach
to turn back his destructive wrath.

USCCB lectionary
Reflection on the Scripture
"Moses said to the people, 'You have committed a grave sin. I will go up to the Lord.' " –Exodus 32:30

Moses "stayed on the mountain forty days and forty nights without eating or drinking, till the Lord gave" him the Ten Commandments (Dt 9:9-10). When Moses came down the mountain, he saw the people adoring the golden calf. "With that, Moses' wrath flared up, so that he threw the tablets down and broke them on the base of the mountain" (Ex 32:19). Then Moses went up the mountain again. "So Moses stayed there with the Lord for forty days and forty nights, without eating any food or drinking any water, and he wrote on the tablets the words of the covenant, the ten commandments" (Ex 34:28).

A forty-day fast with no food and no water is humanly impossible. Back-to-back forty-day fasts are unthinkable. Moses, however, went eighty days without eating or drinking. This shows not only the special graces the Lord gave Moses to fast but also Moses' love for the Lord and His people. Who loves enough to fast for the salvation of others? Who cares enough to fast for several days? Who loves enough to fast for people who have fallen into idolatry and broken your heart?​

PRAYER: Father, teach me to pray and fast.

PROMISE: "I will open My mouth in parables, I will announce what has lain hidden since the creation of the world." –Mt 13:35

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Spiritual Reading
Theological Gems from Emile Merch's Theology of the Mystical Body
- selected by Jim and Tyra Arraj

Book I: Theological and Philosophical Introduction

Chapter 4: Unity: The Human Consciousness of Christ and the Consciousness of Christians

81. If God becomes the very being of our being and the soul of our soul, He must also be, as it were, the consciousness of our consciousness. Consciousness is the very cry of the soul, the act of a being that grasps itself.
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