Message of 3-6-08
Published: Thu, 02/28/08
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
There is no success without sacrifice. If you succeed without
sacrifice it is because someone has suffered before you. If you
sacrifice without success it is because someone will succeed after.
- Adoniram Judson
(Take time to recall the sacrifices of others that have helped you
have a good life.)
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
Ex 32:7-14; Ps. 106:19-20, 21-22, 23; Jn 5:31-47
R. (4a) Remember us, O Lord, as you favor your people.
Our fathers made a calf in Horeb
and adored a molten image;
They exchanged their glory
for the image of a grass-eating bullock.
They forgot the God who had saved them,
who had done great deeds in Egypt,
Wondrous deeds in the land of Ham,
terrible things at the Red Sea.
Then he spoke of exterminating them,
but Moses, his chosen one,
Withstood him in the breach
to turn back his destructive wrath.
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GOSPEL MEDITATION
- from http://www.dailyscripture.net/
Saint Augustine of Hippo says: "As Christians, our task is to make
daily progress toward God. Our pilgrimage on earth is a school in
which God is the only teacher, and it demands good students, not
ones who play truant. In this school we learn something every day.
We learn something from commandments, something from examples, and
something from sacraments. These things are remedies for our wounds
and materials for study." Are you an eager student of God's word
and do you listen to it with faith and trust?
"Lord Jesus, fill me with your Holy Spirit that I may listen to
your word attentively and obey it joyfully.
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PRAYING WITH SCRIPTURE (Carmelite Method)
A. Introduction: settling in, relaxing in awareness of God's
presence.
B. Reading the text slowly, prayerfully.
C. Meditation: imaginative representation of the material; reflection
on the meaning of the material and its application to one's life.
D. Affective prayer: conversation with God, attentive to sharing
feelings awakened in meditation. Prayer of petition, thanksgiving,
remorse.
E. Resting in God in silent loving awareness, if moved to do so.
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NOTES FROM A CLASSICAL WORK
- "Imitation of Christ," by Thomas A. Kempis
O LORD, I am in sore need still of greater grace if I am to
arrive at
the point where no man and no created thing can be an obstacle
to me.
For as long as anything holds me back, I cannot freely fly to
You. He
that said "Oh that I had wings like a dove, that I might fly
away and
be at rest!"[37]37 desired to fly freely to You. Who is more at
rest
than he who aims at nothing but God? And who more free than the
man
who desires nothing on earth?
-------- Bk. 3, Chapter 31
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