- coming soon
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.
“This is the sign by which to recognize those who have arrived at perfection: even if they were to throw themselves into the fire ten times a day for the sake of humanity, they would not be satisfied. . . That is why the blessed apostle
Paul says: ‘I could wish that I myself were accursed and cut off from Christ for the sake of my brethren (Rm 9: 3)’”
- Isaac of Nineveh, “Ascetic Treatises,” 81 -
(Divine love never tires of spending itself for the good of others. Pray the grace to be motivated by this love today.)
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2 Thes 2:1-3a, 14-17; Ps 96:10, 11-12, 13
Mt 23:23-26
Jesus
said:
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.
You pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin,
and have neglected the weightier things of the law:
judgment and mercy and fidelity.
But these you should have done, without neglecting the others.
Blind guides, who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you
hypocrites.
You cleanse the outside of cup and dish,
but inside they are full of plunder and self-indulgence.
Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup,
so that the outside also may be clean.”
UCCB Lectionary
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Reflection on the Scriptures |
The essence of God’s commandments is love - love of God and love of neighbor. God is love and everything he does flows from his love for us. True love is unconditional, costly, and sacrificial - it both embraces and lifts the burdens of others. Do you allow the love of God to transform your whole life - including the way you think of others, speak
of them, and treat them?
“Lord Jesus, fill me with your love and mercy that I may always think, speak, and treat others with fairness, kindness, patience, and goodness.”
DailyScripture.net
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Precautions, by St. John of the Cross
Instruction and precautions necessary for anyone desiring to be a true religious and reach
perfection.
*Against Oneself and the Shrewdness of Sensuality*
14. The other three precautions to be practiced in the wish to conquer one’s own self and sensuality, the third enemy.
*The first precaution*
15. The first precaution is to understand that you have come to the monastery so that all may fashion you and try you. Thus, to free yourself from the imperfections and disturbances that can be engendered by the mannerisms and attitudes of the religious and draw profit from every occurrence, you should think that all in the community are artisans — as indeed they are — present there in order to prove you; that some will fashion you with words, others by deeds, and
others with thoughts against you; and that in all this you must be submissive as is the statue to the craftsman who molds it, to the artist who paints it, and to the gilder who embellishes it.
If you fail to observe this precaution, you will not know how to overcome your sensuality and feelings, nor will you get along well in the community
with the religious or attain holy peace or free yourself from many stumbling blocks and evils.
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