Message of 6-13-16

Published: Mon, 06/13/16

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Monday: June 13, 2016
Message of the Day
It is not only ordained clergy who have the power or ability to bless. Each of us can be a blessing, too. When we bless, it is God’s deep and vast goodness, or God-ness, in us that blesses another. When we bless, we touch another with the touch of this God-ness.
 - Joyce Rupp, The Cup of Our Life

(Share God’s blessing throughout this day.)
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Readings of the Day
1 Kgs 21:1-16;    Ps. 5:2-7;    Mt 5:38-42

R. (2b) Lord, listen to my groaning.

Hearken to my words, O LORD,
attend to my sighing.
Heed my call for help,
my king and my God!

At dawn I bring my plea expectantly before you.
For you, O God, delight not in wickedness;
no evil man remains with you;
the arrogant may not stand in your sight.

You hate all evildoers.
You destroy all who speak falsehood;
The bloodthirsty and the deceitful
the LORD abhors.

USCCB lectionary
Reflection on the Scripture
“When someone strikes you on [your] right cheek, turn the other one to him as well.”

For many of us, this is among the hardest of Jesus’ sayings. We recoil at the thought of “doing nothing” in response to an assault; and, when it comes to acts of terrorism, some even champion the polar opposite of Jesus’ teaching — “pre-empting” possible attacks by striking first and striking fiercely. But Christian pacifism is not passivism. While Jesus exhorts us to offer no resistance, he also instructs us to be active and untiring in generous service to others. Let us devote ourselves to building the kingdom that we may see our world transformed from a place of terror to one of peace and goodwill among all peoples.

“For the grace to follow Jesus in all things, 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 10: Unification of Mankind by Trinitarian Unity

264. Death, for the soul, is the passage from a formative stage to a definitive stage.

269. For a person who is absolutely without sin, death could be very gentle. In the state of original innocence the transition was not even death, but a simple passing from the formative state to the definitive state.
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