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Prayer is a wine which makes glad the hearts of people… it moistens the dry soil of the conscience, it brings about the perfect absorption of the food of good actions, and distributes them into all the members of the
soul; strengthening faith, giving vigour to hope, rendering charity active and yet well ordered, and shedding an unction over the whole character.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
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1 THES 2:1-8; PS 139:1-3, 4-6; MT 23:23-26
R. You have searched me and you know me, Lord.
O LORD, you have probed me and you know me; you know when I sit and when I stand; you understand my thoughts from afar. My journeys and my rest you scrutinize, with all my ways you are familiar.
Even before a word is on my tongue, behold, O LORD, you know the whole of it. Behind me and before, you hem me in and rest your hand upon me. Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; too lofty for me to attain.
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Reflection on the Scriptures |
Ever wonder why there are so many gospel stories featuring the Pharisees in a role antagonistic to Jesus? The
Pharisees were morally and religiously upright people, a reform party in Judaism concerned with restoring Jewish worship to its true roots. So why do the Gospels cast the Pharisees in such a negative light? The answer is that Phariseeism is the besetting sin of all religiously observant church groups, not just in Jerusalem 2000 years ago, but in all the Christian denominations ever since. Today’s gospel captures the essence of their mistake – neglecting the weightier things of the law –
judgment and mercy and fidelity. Religiously observant Christians are tempted to the same error. Observing the fine points of the regulations is not how we earn God’s favor. We already have that; rather these “fine points” are simply descriptions of how someone who is consumed by mercy and fidelity would typically behave. - by Robert
Heaney Creighton Online Ministries
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Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of
Norwich Chapter
5
“God, of Thy Goodness, give me Thyself;—only in Thee I have all”
IN this same time our Lord shewed me a
spiritual sight of His homely loving.
I saw that He is to us everything that is good and comfortable for us: He is our clothing that for love wrappeth us, claspeth us, and all encloseth us for tender love, that He may never leave us; being to us all-thing that is good, as to mine
understanding.
Also in this He shewed me a little thing, the quantity of an hazel-nut, in the palm of my hand; and it was as round as a ball. I looked thereupon with eye of my understanding, and thought: What may this be? And it was answered generally thus: It is all that is made. I marvelled how it might last, for
methought it might suddenly have fallen to naught for little[ness]. And I was answered in my understanding: It lasteth, and ever shall [last] for that God loveth it. And so All-thing hath the Being by the love of God.
In this Little Thing I saw three properties. The first is that God made it, the second is that God loveth
it, the third, that God keepeth it. But what is to me verily the Maker, the Keeper, and the Lover,—I cannot tell; for till I am Substantially oned to Him, I may never have full rest nor very bliss: that is to say, till I be so fastened to Him, that there is right nought that is made betwixt my God and me.
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