Message of 10-8-07
Published: Sat, 10/06/07
MESSAGE OF THE DAY
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and
then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
- Augustine
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Jon 1:1-2:1-2, 11; Jonah 2:3, 4, 5, 8; Lk 10:25-37
R. You will rescue my life from the pit, O Lord.
Out of my distress I called to the LORD,
and he answered me;
From the midst of the nether world I cried for help,
and you heard my voice.
For you cast me into the deep, into the heart of the sea,
and the flood enveloped me;
All your breakers and your billows
passed over me.
Then I said, "I am banished from your sight!
yet would I again look upon your holy temple."
When my soul fainted within me,
I remembered the LORD;
My prayer reached you
in your holy temple.
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Praying the Daily Gospels
- by Philip St. Romain:
- http://www.liguori.org/productdetails.cfm?PC=6614
- Luke 10:25-37 (Parable of the Good Samaritan)
And who is my neighbor?" the lawyer asks Jesus in earnest. Many
rabbis interpreted God's commandment to love one's neighbor as a
summons to love only Jews. Jesus counters this elitism by posing a
story about a Samaritan who is a model of the true neighbor, closer
to God's heart than the Jewish priest who hurries along, ignoring
the man on the side of the road. Since Samaritans were despised by
the Jews, Jesus' parable must have stung his listeners.
- Who are the" people in the bushes" ignored in today's world? How
do you respond to their needs?
- "Jesus was the only teacher tall enough to see over the fences
that divide the human race into compartments," Frank Crane wrote.
Pray for the grace to be able to see people as Christ sees them.
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THEOLOGICAL GEMS FROM EMIL MERCH'S THEOLOGY OF THE MYSTICAL BODY
from http://www.innerexplorations.com/chtheomortext/theolgems.htm
218. God simply is. His way is to be without restriction or
negation, to be entirely and eminently nothing but Being; to become
God cannot in any way involve ceasing to be oneself.
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LECTIO DIVINA METHOD (Benedictine Approach)
1. Relax. Settle in. Be aware that God is here, now, loving you.
2. Read a short passage of Scripture as though God were speaking
directly to you in it.
3. Choose a phrase from the passage that strikes you and repeat it
slowly, prayerfully, non-analytically.
4. When your heart is full, express to God the needs and sentiments
awakened by your meditation. When you're done, read another passage
and repeat steps 3 and 4.
5. If, at any time, you feel moved to simply be present to God in
loving silence, put the Scripture aside and rest in God.
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