Message of 1-22-08
Published: Sun, 01/20/08
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
God, pierced wine-barrel, You offer us a wine that intoxicates
every loving impulse. You fill our understanding with joy and light.
- Catherine of Siena, "Letters"
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
1 Sm 16:1-13; Ps. 89:20, 21-22, 27-28; Mk 2:23-28
R. (21a) I have found David, my servant.
Once you spoke in a vision,
and to your faithful ones you said:
"On a champion I have placed a crown;
over the people I have set a youth."
"I have found David, my servant;
with my holy oil I have anointed him,
That my hand may be always with him,
and that my arm may make him strong."
"He shall say of me, 'You are my father,
my God, the Rock, my savior.'
And I will make him the first-born,
highest of the kings of the earth."
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GOSPEL MEDITATION
- from http://www.dailyscripture.net/
Withholding mercy and kindness in response to human need was not
part of God's intention that we rest from unnecessary labor. Do you
honor the Lord in the way you treat your neighbor and celebrate the
Lord's Day?
"Lord Jesus, may I give you fitting honor in the way I live my life
and in the way I treat my neighbor. May I honor the Lord's Day as a
day holy to you. And may I always treat others with the same mercy
and kindness which you have shown to me. Free me from a critical
and intolerant spirit that I may always seek the good of my
neighbor."
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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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NOTES FROM A CLASSICAL WORK
"Sayings of Light and Love," by St. John of the Cross (jottings
from his notebooks)
44. Be attentive to your reason in order to do what it tells you
concerning the way to God. It will be more valuable before your God
than all the works you perform without this attentiveness and all
the spiritual delights you seek.
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