Webinar: "Discerning God's
Will" |
A webinar is a live, interactive online
presentation.
- by Philip St. Romain, M.S., D. Min.
- September 8, 2016, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. CDT
- Free-will donation
Does God have a plan for our lives? What does Scripture teach about this? How can we know if we are doing God’s will? These and other topics will be address in this webinar. Participants will also
receive a free copy of Philip’s eBook on Discerning God’s Will.
Just in case you missed the quote below, which was part of the text from Catherine of Siena's Treatise on Prayer: For, as soon as the eye of the
intellect lifts itself with the pupil of faith above sensual vision in the contemplation of Me, affection follows it, loving that which the intellect sees and knows, and the memory is filled with that which the affection loves; and, as soon as these powers are thus disposed, the soul participates in Me, the Sun who illuminates her with My power, and with the wisdom of My only-begotten Son, and the fiery clemency of the Holy Spirit.
(We become like that which we attend to and love.) |
1 Cor 1:1-9; Ps 145:2-3, 4-5, 6-7
Mt
24:42-51
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Stay awake!
For you do not know on which day your Lord will come.
Be sure of this:
if the master of the house
had known the hour of night when the thief was coming,
he would have stayed awake
and not let his house be broken into.
So too, you also must be prepared,
for at an hour you do not expect, the Son of Man will
come.
“Who, then, is the faithful and prudent servant,
whom the master has put in charge of his household
to distribute to them their food at the proper time?
Blessed is that servant whom his master on his arrival finds doing so.
Amen, I say to you, he will put him in charge of all his
property.
But if that wicked servant says to himself, ‘My master is long delayed,’
and begins to beat his fellow servants,
and eat and drink with drunkards,
the servant’s master will come on an unexpected day
and at an unknown hour and will punish him severely
and assign him a place with the hypocrites,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.”
Reflection on the
Scriptures |
“Stay awake!”
Today we are warned that we must be watchful and ready for the coming of the Lord. After several days of the “woes” to the hypocritical religious leaders, Jesus now teaches that a servant who takes advantage of his master’s absence and mistreats the other servants will be assigned a place with the hypocrites. Hypocrisy is a temptation that knows no class or state in life. Today we remember St. Augustine, one
famous for his prayer, “Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet.” Whatever our propensity to sin, it is tempting to think we can put off our own reform. But we do not know the day or the hour we may be called.
- from
preacherexchange.com
Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Tenth Revelation, Chapter 24
“Our Lord looked unto His [wounded] Side, and
beheld, rejoicing. . . .
Lo! how I loved thee
THEN with a glad cheer our Lord looked unto His Side and beheld, rejoicing. With His sweet looking He led forth the understanding of His creature by the same wound into His Side within. And then he shewed a fair, delectable place, and large enough for all
mankind that shall be saved to rest in peace and in love. And therewith He brought to mind His dearworthy blood and precious water which he let pour all out for love. And with the sweet beholding He shewed His blessed heart even cloven in two.
And with this sweet enjoying, He shewed unto mine understanding, in part, the blessed Godhead, stirring then the poor soul to understand, as it may
be said, that is, to think on, the endless Love that was without beginning, and is, and shall be ever. And with this our good Lord said full blissfully: Lo, how that I loved thee, as if He had said: My darling, behold and see thy Lord, thy God that is thy Maker and thine endless joy, see what satisfying and bliss I have in thy salvation; and for my love rejoice [thou] with me.
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