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“As earth thrown over it extinguishes a fire burning in a stove, so worldly cares and every kind of attachment to something, however small and insignificant, destroy the warmth of the heart which was there at first.” - Simeon the New Theologian -
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ROM 12:5-16AB; PS 131:1-3; LK 14:15-24
R. In you, O Lord, I have found my peace.
O LORD, my heart is not proud,
nor are my eyes haughty;
I busy not myself with great things,
nor with things too sublime for me.
Nay rather, I have stilled and quieted
my soul like a weaned child.
Like a weaned child on its mother’s lap,
so is my soul within me.
O Israel, hope in the LORD,
both now and forever.
USCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Scriptures |
I was behind a woman with Downs Syndrome in a grocery store line and impatient to get home to fix dinner after a hard day at work. She had only a few items but it was
taking her forever because she couldn’t figure out how to pay for them.
Patience is not one of my major gifts or virtues and all I could think was “why me” as customers in other lines speeded through checking out. But something about the woman got to me. Maybe it was the Holy Spirit.
The teen-age clerk rang up the woman’s items then calmly asked her to lay her money on the counter so she could help her pay. When the woman fumbled, the clerk gently helped her count out a few dollars and some coins. All the while, the woman chatted with the clerk about what a beautiful day it was.
Suddenly it WAS a beautiful day, even for me.
I sensed that the woman had given both the clerk and me a gift that not one of my Ph.D. colleagues or hard-charging relatives
could have delivered. Creighton Online Ministries
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Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of
Norwich Chapter
7
“In all this I was greatly stirred in charity to my fellow-Christians that they might see and know the same that I saw”
AND as long as I saw this sight of the plenteous bleeding of the Head I might never cease from these words: Benedicite Domine!
In which Shewing I understood six things:—The first is, the tokens of the blessed Passion and the plenteous shedding of His precious blood.
The second is, the Maiden that is His dearworthy Mother. The third is, the blissful Godhead that ever was, is, and ever shall be: Almighty, All-Wisdom, All-Love. The fourth is, all-thing that He hath made.—For well I wot that heaven and earth and all that is made is great and large, fair and good; but the cause why it shewed so little to my sight was for that I saw it in the presence of Him that is the Maker of all things: for to a soul that seeth the Maker of all, all that is made seemeth full
little.—The fifth is: He that made all things for love, by the same love keepeth them, and shall keep them without end. The sixth is, that God is all that is good, as to my sight, and the goodness that each thing hath, it is He.
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