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On every level of life from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and all efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure signs of an amateur.
- Evelyn Underhill
(Where does impatience show up in your life? Invite the Spirit to show you how to relax and let go more.)
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ACTS 14:19-28; Ps 145:10-11, 12-13AB, 21
JN 14:27-31A
Jesus said to his disciples:
“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give to you.
Not as the world gives do I give it to you.
Do not let your hearts be troubled or afraid.
You heard me tell you,
‘I am going away and I will come back to you.’
If you loved me,
you would rejoice that I am going to the Father;
for the Father is greater than I.
And now I have told you this before it happens,
so that when it happens you may believe.
I will no longer speak much with you,
for the ruler of the world is coming.
He has no power over me,
but the world must know that I love the Father
and that I do just as the Father has commanded me.”
USCCB Lectionary
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Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain,
2018 (3rd ed.)
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John 14:27-31 (His peace he leaves us)
The kind of peace Jesus promises is shalom, which means ‘the fullness of life.” Although many philosophies and value systems promise this kind of peace, Jesus alone seems able to help us experience it consistently.
• Would you describe your usual state of mind as one of peace? Why? Why not? What situations rob you of peace? When do you usually feel most at peace?
• Pray for the grace to accept the peace which Christ promised.
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Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
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BOOK I: CONTAINING A PREPARATION FOR THE WHOLE TREATISE
Chapter 13: On the difference of loves
If the esteem and preference of our friend, though great and without equal, do yet enter into comparison and proportion with others, the friendship will be called eminent dilection, but if the eminence of it be, beyond proportion and comparison, above every other, then it is graced with the title of incomparable, sovereign and supereminent dilection, and
in a word it will be charity, which is due to the one God only. And indeed in our language the words cher, cherement, encherir, represent a certain particular esteem, prize or value, so that as amongst the people the word man is almost appropriated to the male-kind as to the more excellent sex, and the word adoration is almost exclusively kept for God as for its proper object, so the name of Charity has been kept for the love of God as for supreme and sovereign
dilection.
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