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“The human intellect has a greater desire, and love, and pleasure, in knowing divine matters than it has in the perfect knowledge of lowest things, even though it can grasp but little concerning divine things. So the ultimate end of human
beings is to understand God, in some fashion.”
- Thomas Aquinas -
(How have you been developing your understanding of God
lately?)
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Acts 14:19-28; Ps. 145:10-11, 12-13ab, 21; Jn 14:27-31a
R. Your friends make known, O Lord, the glorious splendor of your
kingdom.
Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom
and speak of your might.
Making known to men your might
and the glorious splendor of your kingdom.
Your kingdom is a kingdom for all ages,
and your dominion
endures through all generations.
May my mouth speak the praise of the LORD,
and may all flesh bless his holy name forever and ever.
UCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Scriptures |
Jesus went to the cross knowing that it would lead to victory over the powers of sin and of Satan. Jesus also knew that he would return to his Father in glory. The cross brought glory to Jesus and to the Father and it is our way to glory as well. In the Cross of Christ we find true peace and reconciliation with God. Do you live in the peace of Jesus
Christ?
“Lord Jesus, may your peace be always with me. May no circumstance, trouble, or vexation rob me of the peace which passes all understanding. You, alone, O Lord, are my Peace. May I always reside in that peace by believing your word and by doing your will.”
DailyScripture.net
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The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous
How that the matter of this book is never more read or spoken, nor heard read or spoken, of a soul disposed thereto
without feeling of a very accordance to the effect of the same work: and of rehearsing of the same charge that is written in the prologue.
AND if thee think that this manner of
working be not according to thy disposition in body and in soul, thou mayest leave it and take another, safely with good ghostly counsel without blame. And then I beseech thee that thou wilt have me excused, for truly I would have profited unto thee in this writing at my simple cunning; and that was mine intent. And therefore read over twice or thrice; and ever the ofter the better, and the more thou shalt conceive thereof. Insomuch, peradventure, that some sentence that was full hard to thee at
the first or the second reading, soon after thou shalt think it easy.
- Chapter 74
(The term, "ghostly" =
"spiritual".)
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