Message of 12-18-07
Published: Sat, 12/15/07
MESSAGE OF THE DAY
To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental
noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.
- Eckhart Tolle, "Stillness Speaks"
(Take more time for silence these days. Let there be room in your
heart for the coming of Christ.)
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Jer 23:5-8; Ps 72:1-2, 12-13, 18-19; Mt 1:18-25
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.
For 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.
Blessed be the LORD, the God of Israel,
who alone does wondrous deeds.
And blessed forever be his glorious name;
may the whole earth be filled with his glory.
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ADVENT REFLECTIONS
Joseph was not afraid to dream. Joseph's role in the Christmas
event was as equal in importance to that of Mary's . The question
of whether or not he physically sired this Son of God is not as
important as knowing his willingness to listen to his dream, to fly
in the face of tradition and to follow his own heart. Without
Joseph, Mary might well have been stoned as the adulterous woman.
Without Mary, the example of Joseph's integrity might have been
lost in obscurity. But as it happened, neither of them was afraid
to dream.
* Have you ever witnessed a couple who reflects this relationship
between Mary and Joseph?
* How are your relationships?
* Name the men in your life who display the integrity of Joseph.
(by Sr. Maxine Shonk, OP)
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SAYINGS OF LIGHT AND LOVE
by St. John of the Cross
- jottings from his notebooks
38. When fixed on something else, one's appetite leaves no room for
the angel to move it.
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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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