Message of 2-25-16

Published: Thu, 02/25/16

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Thursday, February 25, 2016
Message of the Day
“Until that secret holy energy we call grace has touched and stirred us, we do not know what grace is: it is a pious word, not the name of an actual power, a free gift from the sources of Eternal Life. And unless grace continues to play upon and support us, we cannot go on knowing what it is. Therefore, attention to God, adoration of God . . . this must be the first and governing term of the supernatural life, the unique source of all its possibilities.”
- Evelyn Underhill -

(When in doubt about where to go or what to do, simply bring your gaze to God, and be aware of God’s loving gaze toward you. Allow this attentiveness to God to restore balance and perspective in your life.)
 
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Daily Readings
Jer 17:5-10;    Ps. 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6;    Lk 16:19-31

R. Blessed are they who hope in the Lord.

Blessed the one who follows not
the counsel of the wicked
Nor walks in the way of sinners,
nor sits in the company of the insolent,
But delights in the law of the LORD
and meditates on his law day and night.

He is like a tree
planted near running water,
That yields its fruit in due season,
and whose leaves never fade.
Whatever he does, prospers.

Not so, the wicked, not so;
they are like chaff which the wind drives away.
For the LORD watches over the way of the just,
but the way of the wicked vanishes.
 
Reflection on the Scriptures
Jesus presents us with a faith critique of our reality. Both Lazarus and the rich man die, for wealth has no say there. And now, deprived of the affirmation of peers and cronies, the rich man begins to see the light. The scene is reminiscent of despotic Sadam Hussein asking for leniency at his trial. We may have thought that perhaps in his loftiness the rich man was not even aware of the presence of that poor man at his door or at his estate’s gate, but he does recognize the beggar and he even knows his name: Lazarus. It was not a matter of his not being aware of the beggar’s presence and needs.

- by Luis Rodriguez, S.J.


 
Spiritual Reading
Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of Norwich 

Fourth Revelation, Chapter 12


“The dear worthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most precious, so verily it is most plenteous”

The dearworthy blood of our Lord Jesus Christ as verily as it is most precious, so verily it is most plenteous. Behold and see! The precious plenty of His dearworthy blood descended down into Hell and burst her bands and delivered all that were there which belonged to the Court of Heaven. The precious plenty of His dearworthy blood overfloweth all Earth, and is ready to wash all creatures of sin, which be of goodwill, have been, and shall be. The precious plenty of His dearworthy blood ascended up into Heaven to the blessed body of our Lord Jesus Christ, and there is in Him, bleeding and praying for us to the Father,—and is, and shall be as long as it needeth;—and ever shall be as long as it needeth. And evermore it floweth in all Heavens enjoying the salvation of all mankind, that are there, and shall be—fulfilling the number that faileth.


 
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