Message of 9-29-15

Published: Tue, 09/29/15

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Tuesday: September 29, 2015
Message of the Day

What is the reason that some believers are so much brighter and holier than others? I believe the difference in nineteen cases out of twenty, arises from different habits about private prayer. I believe that those who are not eminently holy pray little and those who are eminently holy pray much.

- James Charles J. C. Ryle


(I think most spiritual directors would agree, as it is prayer that opens one to infused gifts of wisdom and knowledge.)

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Daily Readings
 

DN 7:9-10, 13-14;    PS 138:1-5;    JN 1:47-51


R. In the sight of the angels I will sing your praises, Lord.


I will give thanks to you, O LORD, with all my heart,

for you have heard the words of my mouth;

in the presence of the angels I will sing your praise;

I will worship at your holy temple

and give thanks to your name.


Because of your kindness and your truth;

for you have made great above all things

your name and your promise.

When I called, you answered me;

you built up strength within me.


All the kings of the earth shall give thanks to you, O LORD

when they hear the words of your mouth;

And they shall sing of the ways of the LORD

“Great is the glory of the LORD.”


USCCB Lectionary
 Reflection on the Scriptures
 

For Christians this notion of the participatory character of symbol is at the heart of the mystery of the Incarnation.  God chooses to communicate the essence of God’s self:  Divine thoughts, intentions, will, affections and all aspects of the Divine that can be received by humans through the wide range of media that we can perceive and make meaning from.  Thus the symbolic or sacramental character of faith is central to understanding and receiving what God desires for us and from us.  


I point to all this as a way of introducing the mysterious Feast that we celebrate today of the Archangels.  Those mysterious creatures identified in the Bible as messengers of God’s plan and presence to humans in various ways.   The Scriptures today focus on God made present in power and glory in human manifestation.  The Gospel , which is a call passage from John’s first chapter, witnesses that the very human Jesus reads human hearts (a divine attribute) and then promises that he can do far greater things.  

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- by Eileen Burke-Sullivan
 

Creighton Online Ministries

SPIRITUAL READING

 

Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of Norwich

   
Chapter 6

“The Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it cometh down to the lowest part of our need”


For the Goodness of God is the highest prayer, and it cometh down to the lowest part of our need. It quickeneth our soul and bringeth it on life, and maketh it for to waxen in grace and virtue. It is nearest in nature; and readiest in grace: for it is the same grace that the soul seeketh, and ever shall seek till we know verily that He hath us all in Himself enclosed.


For He hath no despite of that He hath made, nor hath He any disdain to serve us at the simplest office that to our body belongeth in nature, for love of the soul that He hath made to His own likeness.


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