Message of 6-20-16

Published: Mon, 06/20/16

A Daily Spiritual Seed
Monday: June 20, 2016
Message of the Day
Love, yes, love your calling, for this holy and generous love will impart strength to you so as to enable you to surmount all obstacles.
   - St. Mary Euphrasia Pelletier, Embrace the World  
            
(What is your calling?  How can you love it better?)
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Readings of the Day
2 Kgs 17:5-8, 13-15a, 18;    Ps. 60:3, 4-5, 12-13;    Mt 7:1-5

R.  Help us with your right hand, O Lord, and answer us.

O God, you have rejected us and broken our defenses;
you have been angry; rally us!

You have rocked the country and split it open;
repair the cracks in it, for it is tottering.
You have made your people feel hardships;
you have given us stupefying wine.

Have not you, O God, rejected us,
so that you go not forth, O God, with our armies?
Give us aid against the foe,
for worthless is the help of men.

USCCB lectionary
Reflection on the Scripture
“Stop judging, that you may not be judged.”

While we take these words as an admonition for how we view our fellow human beings, we often reserve our harshest judgments for ourselves. Indeed, we’re our own worst critics. We continually beat ourselves up for our shortcomings and develop a very negative view of ourselves. We must, however, remember the singular fidelity of the Lord. God doesn’t delight in our failings, just as we shouldn’t feel the need to point out weaknesses in others or ourselves. What we must do is continually accept the challenge to live in a way that is pleasing to the Lord and to find hope in the redemptive power of Christ. God knows what’s in our hearts. We shouldn’t be harder on others or ourselves than God in his infinite compassion will be.

“For the grace to recognize that God will look upon us with mercy and love, 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 11: Nature of the Redemption

272 -- The Gospel is full of God’s excessive love for us. God conceived the idea of showing how He can love us.

274. Once mankind has become the object of this inexplicable tenderness, everything is accounted for, everything falls into place naturally, indeed everything has already taken place in principle. Nothing remains but to transfer to time and to apply to mankind what has already been decided and hence is supereminently real in God’s eternal omnipotence.
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