Message of 6-5-08
Published: Mon, 05/26/08
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MESSAGE OF THE DAY
Love makes labour light. Love alone gives value to all things.
- Teresa of Avila
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SCRIPTURE READINGS
http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/
2 Tm 2:8-15; Ps. 25:4-5ab, 8-9, 10 and 14; Mk 12:28-34
R. (4) Teach me your ways, O Lord.
Your ways, O LORD, make known to me;
teach me your paths,
Guide me in your truth and teach me,
for you are God my savior.
Good and upright is the LORD;
thus he shows sinners the way.
He guides the humble to justice,
he teaches the humble his way.
All the paths of the LORD are kindness and constancy
toward those who keep his covenant and his decrees.
The friendship of the LORD is with those who fear him,
and his covenant, for their instruction.
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GOSPEL MEDITATION
- from www.dailyscripture.net
The Lord, through the gift of the Holy Spirit, gives us a new
freedom to love as he loves. Do you allow anything to keep you from
the love of God and the joy of serving others with a generous
heart? Paul the Apostle says: hope does not disappoint us, because
God's love has been poured into our hearts through the Holy Spirit
which has been given to us (Romans 5:5). Do you know the love which
conquers all?
"We love you, O our God; and we desire to love you more and more.
Grant to us that we may love you as much as we desire, and as much
as we ought. O dearest friend, who has so loved and saved us, the
thought of whom is so sweet and always growing sweeter, come with
Christ and dwell in our hearts; that you keep a watch over our
lips, our steps, our deeds, and we shall not need to be anxious
either for our souls or our bodies. Give us love, sweetest of all
gifts, which knows no enemy. Give us in our hearts pure love, born
of your love to us, that we may love others as you love us. O most
loving Father of Jesus Christ, from whom flows all love, let our
hearts, frozen in sin, cold to you and cold to others, be warmed by
this divine fire. So help and bless us in your Son." (Prayer of
Anselm, 12th cen.)
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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
The wise ones of the world, those who lust for the flesh, are
wanting
in Your wisdom, because in the world is found the utmost vanity,
and
in the flesh is death. But they who follow You by disdaining
worldly
things and mortifying the flesh are known to be truly wise, for
they
are transported from vanity to truth, from flesh to spirit. By
such as
these God is relished, and whatever good is found in creatures
they
turn to praise of the Creator. But great -- yes, very great,
indeed --
is the difference between delight in the Creator and in the
creature,
in eternity and in time, in Light uncreated and in the light
that is
reflected.
-------- Bk. 3, Chapter 34
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