Message of 4-18-16

Published: Mon, 04/18/16

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Monday: April 18, 2016
Message of the Day
- A prayer of surrender for today: 

Sweet Christ, highest Love,
  have compassion for me.
Don't abandon me.
I take refuge in Your kindness,
  because You're my only certainty.
You have all my hope.

   - Umlita of Faenza, Sermons
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Readings of the Day
Acts 11:1-18;    Ps. 42:2-3; 43:3, 4;    Jn 10:11-18

R. Athirst is my soul for the living God.

As the hind longs for the running waters,
so my soul longs for you, O God.
Athirst is my soul for God, the living God.
When shall I go and behold the face of God?

Send forth your light and your fidelity;
they shall lead me on
And bring me to your holy mountain,
to your dwelling-place.

Then will I go in to the altar of God,
the God of my gladness and joy;
Then will I give you thanks upon the harp,
O God, my God!

USCCB lectionary
Reflection on the Scripture
What God hath made clean, you are not to call profane.

We sometimes act as if we know better than God. (We don't.) How
surprised, not to say shocked, Peter must have been to realize the
major changes God was working in the way he had always lived! For
most of us, change is often either much too sudden or much too
slow. If we are to cooperate with the Holy Spirit in building God's
Kingdom on earth, we must remain open, attentive and malleable.
Change for the better will come, in God's time, not ours.
Meanwhile, we should "Pray as though everything depended on God;
work as though everything depended on us."

"Come Holy Spirit, remake us into the dynamic, active community of
love that Jesus came to establish on earth."

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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

233. The humanity of Christ truly causes us to be supernaturally more human.

To be human means that one is disposed to experience and live in oneself what others feel, to live their lives in oneself.
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