Message of 9-28-15

Published: Mon, 09/28/15

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Monday: September 28, 2015
Message of the Day

But you have to pray. You have to listen to the voice who calls you the beloved, because otherwise you will run around begging for affirmation, for praise, for success. And then you're not free.
- Henri J. M. Nouwen


(From whence comes your own source for affirmation and acceptance?)
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Readings of the Day

ZEC 8:1-8;    PS 102:16-21, 29 AND 22-23;    LK 9:46-50


R. The Lord will build up Zion again, and appear in all his glory.


The nations shall revere your name, O LORD,

and all the kings of the earth your glory,

When the LORD has rebuilt Zion

and appeared in his glory;

When he has regarded the prayer of the destitute,

and not despised their prayer.


Let this be written for the generation to come,

and let his future creatures praise the LORD:

“The LORD looked down from his holy height,

from heaven he beheld the earth,

To hear the groaning of the prisoners,

to release those doomed to die.”


The children of your servants shall abide,

and their posterity shall continue in your presence.

That the name of the LORD may be declared in Zion;

and his praise, in Jerusalem,

When the peoples gather together,

and the kingdoms, to serve the LORD.

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Reflection on the Scripture
"Even if this should seem impossible in the eyes of the remnant of this people, shall it in those days be impossible in My eyes also, says the Lord of hosts?" –Zechariah 8:6

The Lord wants us to have an ever-increasing faith that He is the God of the impossible. He wants us to say with the Archangel Gabriel and believe with Mary that "nothing is impossible with God" (Lk 1:37). The Lord says to us what He said to Nathanael: "You will see much greater things than that" (Jn 1:50). Jesus even says: "Amen, Amen, I say to you, the one who has faith in Me will do the works I do, and greater than these" (Jn 14:12, our transl). The Lord wants our faith to be deeper, and the effects of our faith to be greater.

Believe much more, not less.

PRAYER: Father, "I believe! Help my lack of faith" (Mk 9:24, our transl).

PROMISE: "Whoever welcomes this little child on My account welcomes Me, and whoever welcomes Me welcomes Him Who sent Me; for the least one among you is the greatest." –Lk 9:48

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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 5: The Teaching of Philosophy on Man and His Unity

115. "I am a human." And that implies all the depths of inner, hidden, conscious life. There is in each one of us a formal unity of humanity, that is, a unity in the form and through the form. (The unity) is deep-seated, active and alive.
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