The difficulty, stated in its simplest terms, is not to hold on (to cling to passing things)! Not to hold on to the fleeting years, for example. People at seventy tell themselves that they are as old as they feel they are, and therefore that they're still young. Whereas the true self tells us to 'be our age,' or, more profoundly, that NOW, since it is on the only point at which we make contact with God,
is the best age for us to be.
- Dom Aelred Graham, Zen Catholicism
(The "real you" is the one who is here, now. That's the one whom God loves, and who will be out and about today. "Be here now in love" with God, then with everyone.)
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JER 18:1-6; Ps 46:1B-2, 3-4, 5-6AB
MT 13:47-53
Jesus said to the disciples:
“The Kingdom of heaven is like a net thrown into the sea,
which collects fish of every kind.
When it is full they haul it ashore
and sit down to put what is good into buckets.
What is bad they throw away.
Thus it will be at the end of the age.
The angels will go out and separate the wicked from the righteous
and throw them into the fiery furnace,
where there will be wailing and grinding of teeth.”
“Do you understand all these things?”
They answered, “Yes.”
And he replied,
“Then every scribe who has been instructed in the Kingdom of heaven
is like the head of a household who brings from his storeroom
both the new and the old.”
When Jesus finished these parables, he went away from there.
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Reflection on the Scriptures |
This first reading gives me great hope, especially in these days. After the deaths of George Floyd, Ahmaud Arbery, and Breonna Taylor in the United States, our collective consciousness, particularly for white people like me, has finally taken seriously the cry of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) in their experiences of racism and racial inequity. Taking seriously the
benefits I gain from systems set up to more easily allow me to succeed and the role I play in racism – both consciously and unconsciously – has shown me that my vessel’s walls have caved in. What I am being shaped into is not always open to receiving the light, love, and gift that each person, created in the image of God, has to offer. So, I am being reworked, just like “the clay in the hand of the potter.”
- by Beth Samson
Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of Norwich
Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 78
Though we be highly lifted up into contemplation by the special gift of our
Lord, yet it is needful to us to have knowledge and sight of our sin and our
feebleness
And thus by this gracious knowing we may see our sin profitably without despair. For truly we need to see it, and by the sight we shall be made ashamed of our self and brought down as anent our pride and presumption; for it behoveth us verily to see that of ourselves we are right nought but sin and wretchedness. And thus by the sight of the less that our
Lord sheweth us, the more is reckoned [321] which we see not. For He of His courtesy measureth the sight to us; for it is so vile and so horrible that we should not endure to see it as it is. And by this meek knowing after this manner, through contrition and grace we shall be broken from all that is not our Lord. And then shall our blessed Saviour perfectly heal us, and one us to Him.
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