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He who searches for Divine Reality with all his heart and soul and finds it, becomes aware that, before he began to seek God, God was seeking him, in order to draw him into the joy of fellowship with Him, into the peace of His Presence; even as a child who has strayed, when he is safely back in his mother’s
arms, realises that she had been searching for him, with deep maternal love, before he had begun to think about her.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
(God is seeking you. What is your response?)
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1 PT 4:7-13; PS 96:10, 11-12, 13; MK 11:11-26
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The Lord comes to judge the earth.
Say among the nations: The LORD is king.
He has made the world firm, not to be moved;
he governs the peoples with equity.
Let the heavens be glad and the earth rejoice;
let the sea and what fills it resound;
let the plains be joyful and all that is in
them!
Then shall all the trees of the forest exult.
Before the LORD, for he comes;
for he comes to rule the earth.
He shall rule the world with justice
and the peoples with his constancy.
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Mark 11:11-26 (The withered fig tree)
Old Testament prophets
sometimes compared the people of Israel to trees, branches, and vines. Today’s stories of the withered fig tree and the cleansing of the Temple show Jesus confronting the barrenness of the Jews of his day, a barrenness stemming from their failure to receive his teaching and their failure to understand the meaning of true worship.
* How do you feel about JesusÕ actions
in this passage? Is it possible for anger to serve love?
* What occurred in the temple of your soul during the past day?
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The Way of Perfection, by Teresa of Avila (1515-1582) Continues the same subject and gives counsels concerning different kinds of temptation. Suggests two remedies by which we may be freed from temptations.
It is so strange, I repeat, that I am not surprised if people are amazed at it; for, unless they are altogether at fault, they are much safer on this road than on any other, just as people who watch a bull-fight from the grand-stand are safer than the men who expose themselves to a thrust from the bull's horns. This comparison, which I heard somewhere, seems to me very exact. Do not be afraid to walk on these roads, sisters, for there are
many of them in the life of prayer -- and some people get most help by using one of them and others by using another, as I have said. This road is a safe one and you will the more readily escape from temptation if you are near the Lord than if you are far away from Him. Beseech and entreat this of Him, as you do so many times each day in the Paternoster. - Chapter 37 (Keep in mind that she is writing to sisters in a cloistered contemplative order.)
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