Message of 12-2-08
Published: Sat, 11/29/08
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
Paradoxically, we achieve true wholeness only by embracing our
fragility and sometimes, our brokenness. Wholeness is a natural
radiance of Love, and Love demands that we allow the destruction of
our old self for the sake of the new.
- Jalaja Bonheim
(What fragile or broken aspect of yourself do you need to embrace
in Love?)
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Is 11:1-10; Ps 72:1-2, 7-8, 12-13, 17; Lk 10:21-24
R. (see 7) Justice shall flourish in his time, and fullness of
peace for ever.
O God, with your judgment endow the king,
and with your justice, the king's son;
He shall govern your people with justice
and your afflicted ones with judgment.
Justice shall flower in his days,
and profound peace, till the moon be no more.
May he rule from sea to sea,
and from the River to the ends of the earth.
He shall rescue the poor when he cries out,
and the afflicted when he has no one to help him.
He shall have pity for the lowly and the poor;
the lives of the poor he shall save.
May his name be blessed forever;
as long as the sun his name shall remain.
In him shall all the tribes of the earth be blessed;
all the nations shall proclaim his happiness.
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GOSPEL MEDITATION
- from http://www.dailyscripture.net/
Our knowledge of God is not simply limited to knowing something
about God, but we can know God personally. Jesus makes it possible
for each of us to personally know God as our Father. To see Jesus
is to see what God is like. In Jesus we see the perfect love of
God - a God who cares intensely and who yearns over men and women,
loving them to the point of laying down his life for them upon the
Cross. Do you pray to your Father in heaven with joy and confidence
in his love and care for you?
"Lord, give me the child-like simplicity and purity of faith to
gaze upon your face with joy and confidence in your all-merciful
love. Remove every doubt, fear, and proud thought which would
hinder me from receiving your word with trust and humble submission."
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PRAYING WITH SCRIPTURE (Ignatian Method)
A. Preparation: acts of faith and reverence in the presence of God;
asking grace of a good meditation; petition for specific graces
sought in meditation.
B. Reading the Scriptures slowly, prayerfully.
C. Exercise of the memory, imagination, and intellect:
consideration of the material.. What practical applications are
suggested?
D. Expression of feelings and sentiments awakened in meditation.
Conversation with God.
E. Exercise of will and imagination in making resolutions. Prayer
for grace to fulfill resolutions.
F. Vocal prayer (Our Father, Hail Mary, other prayers).
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NOTES FROM A CLASSICAL WORK
"Sayings of Light and Love," by St. John of the Cross (jottings
from his notebooks)
89. Keep habitual confidence in God, esteeming in yourself and
those things that God most values, which are spiritual goods.
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