Message of 3-28-16

Published: Mon, 03/28/16

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Monday: March 28, 2016
Message of the Day
“The benefits [of the resurrection] are innumerable. To list a few: Our illnesses don’t seem nearly so final; Our fears fade and lose their grip; Our grief over those who have gone on is diminished; Our desires to press on in spite of the obstacles is rejuvenated… Our identity as Christians is strengthened as we stand in the lengthening shadows of saints down through the centuries, who have always answered back in antiphonal voice: ‘He is risen, indeed!’” 
- Charles Swindoll

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Readings of the Day
Acts 2:14, 22-33;    Ps. 16:1-2a, 5-11;    Mt 28:8-15

R.  Keep me safe, O God; you are my hope.

Keep me, O God, for in you I take refuge;
I say to the LORD, "My Lord are you."
O LORD, my allotted portion and my cup,
you it is who hold fast my lot.

I bless the LORD who counsels me;
even in the night my heart exhorts me.
I set the LORD ever before me;
with him at my right hand I shall not be disturbed.

Therefore my heart is glad and my soul rejoices,
my body, too, abides in confidence;
Because you will not abandon my soul to the nether world,
nor will you suffer your faithful one to undergo corruption.

You will show me the path to life,
fullness of joys in your presence,
the delights at your right hand forever.


USCCB lectionary
Reflection on the Scripture
Then Jesus said to them, ‘Do not be afraid.’

We live in a fearsome, fearful world. We’re programmed to tune in daily to learn which new terror threatens: plague, violence, starvation, economic collapse, ecological disaster, anarchy. Our imaginations run wild with recollections of disasters past and projections about those yet to come. Then, within the chaos, we encounter One who calls us to experience an opposite reality. We are told to go unafraid into the world — troubled as it is — with Good News: Jesus, our Lord and Savior, has conquered death! These days of Easter renew us in the wonder of Christ’s love and power. May we rejoice in them fully — energized by joy, strengthened in faith, hope and love, emboldened by the vision of God’s Kingdom come.

For joy in the Good News of salvation, we pray.

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Spiritual Reading
Theological Gems from Emile Merch's Theology of the Mystical Body
- selected by Jim and Tyra Arraj

Book III: Christ

Chapter 9: Christology and the Mystical Body

221. His human nature does not differ from ours except in the intensity of its existence, and that but makes it the more human.

224. Christ's nature has this sociability, as it also has humanity, in an eminent way that befits a human nature belonging to God. In assuming and divinizing a human nature, God assumes and divinizes all humanity. He assumes and divinizes human nature socially: the Word has come to dwell in all of us through one of us.
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