“You are a fire that takes away the coldness, illuminates the mind with its Light, and causes me to know Your Truth. And I know that You are Beauty and
Wisdom itself. The food of angels, You gave Yourself to human beings in the fire of Your Love.
- Catherine of Siena -
(Open your mind and heart to receive the Light of God this day.)
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Is 26:1-6; Ps 118:1, 8-9, 19-21, 25-27a
Mt 7:21, 24-27
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’
will enter the Kingdom of heaven,
but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven.
“Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on
them
will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.
The rain fell, the floods came,
and the winds blew and buffeted the house.
But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock.
And everyone who listens to these words of mine
but does not act on them
will be like a fool who built his house on sand.
The rain fell, the floods came,
and the winds blew and buffeted the house.
And it collapsed and was completely
ruined.”
Reflection on the
Scriptures |
And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them
will be like a fool who built his house on sand.”
Many homeowners can testify that what once seemed to be a good foundation can in time prove otherwise. The settling of a house may leave cracks in its foundation. Damage may be negligible, or it can signal a major threat to the home’s structural integrity. Prudence demands that we periodically inspect our homes and our practices of faith. How
might we attend more closely to Jesus’ exhortation to listen to his words and act on them? Do we need to shore up our spiritual lives by setting aside more time for prayer or study of the sacred scriptures?
“For lives grounded in Christ, we pray.”
- from preacherexchange.com
Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Thirteenth Revelation, Chapter 31
“The Spiritual Thirst (which was in Him from
without beginning) is desire in Him as long as we be in need, drawing us up to His Bliss”
For we know in our Faith, and also it was shewed in all [the Revelations] that Christ Jesus is both God and man. And anent the Godhead, He is Himself highest bliss, and was, from without beginning, and shall be,
without end: which endless bliss may never be heightened nor lowered in itself. For this was plenteously seen in every Shewing, and specially in the Twelfth, where He saith: I am that [which] is highest. And anent Christ’s Manhood, it is known in our Faith, and also [it was] shewed, that He, with the virtue of Godhead, for love, to bring us to His bliss suffered pains and passions, and died. And these be the works of Christ’s Manhood wherein He rejoiceth; and that shewed He in the Ninth
Revelation, where He saith: It is a joy and bliss and endless pleasing to me that ever I suffered Passion for thee. And this is the bliss of Christ’s works, and thus he signifieth where He saith in that same Shewing: we be His bliss, we be His meed, we be His worship, we be His crown.
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