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Cultivate peace; be deaf to your too prolific imagination; it's great activity not only injures the health of your body, but introduces aridity into your soul. You consume yourself to no purpose; peace and interior sweetness are destroyed by your restlessness. Think you God can speak in those soft and tender accents that melt the soul, in the midst of such a tumult as you
excite by your incessant hurry of thought? Be quiet, and He will soon be heard.
- Francois Fenelon
(Cultivate peace. How will you do
so today?)
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Prv 3:27-34; Ps 15:2-3a, 3bc-4ab, 5
Lk
8:16-18
Jesus said to the crowd:
“No one who lights a lamp conceals it with a vessel
or sets it under a bed;
rather, he places it on a lampstand
so that those who enter may see the light.
For there is nothing hidden that will not become visible,
and nothing secret that will not be known and come to light.
Take care, then, how you hear.
To anyone who has, more will be
given,
and from the one who has not,
even what he seems to have will be taken away.”
USCCB lectionary
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Reflection on the Scripture |
“No one after lighting a lamp puts it under a
vessel.”
Today’s Gospel passage inspired the children’s song “This Little Light of Mine.” We’re not to put our light under a “bushel” or “let Satan blow it out” — we are to “let it shine.” We cover our light for many reasons: fear, false modesty, the dread of hearing, “Who does she think she is?” And sometimes our light is extinguished by the blows
of this life: hardship, disappointment, unfairness, the terrible loss of someone we love, the inevitable diminishment as we grow older. When our light is so hidden that we cannot find even a flicker; when our light has been blown out and we are stumbling in the dark — that is when we need each other. We illumine for each other the goodness in each of us. We help each other see that unique face of God that we are here on this earth to make visible. Then we say, “Thank you, Jesus, for the lights
of my sisters and brothers.”
- preacherexchange.com
mycatholic.com
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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
325. All the grace
that is ever received by the mystical body of Christ comes from the Father through the Son in the Spirit.
327. The dogma of the Trinity reveals to the Christian what Being is in itself.
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