Message of 10-5-15

Published: Mon, 10/05/15

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Monday: October 5, 2015
Message of the Day
The mystery of God touches us -- or does not -- in the smallest details: giving a strawberry, with love; receiving a touch, with love; sharing the snapdragon red of an autumn sunset, with love.
   - Marion Woodman, Coming Home to Myself

(It is a matter of awareness. Be awake to God’s presence this day.)
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Readings of the Day

JON 1:1–2:1-2, 11;    JONAH 2:3-5, 8;    LK 10:25-37


R. You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.


Out of my distress I called to the LORD,

and he answered me;

From the midst of the nether world I cried for help,

and you heard my voice.


For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea,

and the flood enveloped me;

All your breakers and your billows 

passed over me.


Then I said, “I am banished from your sight!

yet would I again look upon your holy temple.”


When my soul fainted within me,

I remembered the LORD;

My prayer reached you

in your holy temple.

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USCCB lectionary
Reflection on the Scripture
"Therefore let no man separate what God has joined." –Mark 10:9


Jesus does not want husband and wife to be separated. Also, He became indignant at His disciples for separating some children from Him (Mk 10:14). Furthermore, Jesus does not want parents separated from their children. . . Moreover, Jesus does not want family members separated from each other by TV, overwork, communication breakdown, and independent lifestyles. Jesus even refuses to separate Christians from their enemies (see Mt 13:30).


Finally, let no one separate Christians from one another. The Lord has joined us to Him and to one another in Baptism (1 Cor 12:13). We are brothers and sisters in Him. We must live in real Christian community and not in worldly isolation and individualism. Let nothing separate what God has joined.


PRAYER:  Father, by my life may I never choose separation from You forever (see Mt 25:32).


PROMISE:  "Indeed, it was fitting that when bringing many sons to glory God, for Whom and through Whom all things exist, should make their Leader in the work of salvation perfect through suffering." –Heb 2:10


PRAISE:  Praise the Risen Jesus, Whose death and resurrection has enabled us to remain unified!


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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

117. Man does not know himself unless he knows the universe of man and humanity. This explains the interest man takes in other men and in material phenomena. They truly concern him; they make up his completeness.

119. Man is not yet a man but is only becoming one.
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