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Salt, when dissolved in water, may disappear, but it does not cease to exist. We can be sure of its presence by tasting the water. Likewise, the indwelling Christ, though unseen, will be made evident to others from the love which he imparts to us.
- Sadhu Sundar Singh
("Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another." Mk. 9:50)
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Webinar by Philip St. Romain, D. Min.
September 10, 2020. 7:00 - 8:30 p.m. CDT
An election is coming up in the U.S. and in other countries, and many evaluate the candidates in terms of which one is more "pro-life." But what do we really mean by this term? Drawing from biblical and scientific resources, this webinar will broaden the usual focus by reflecting on the critical role of human influence in creation. We will identify specific actions that each of us can take to promote and defend
life.
Register: https://tinyurl.com/yxn5qauz
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1 COR 2:10-16; PS 145:8-14
LK 4:31-37
Jesus went down to Capernaum, a town of Galilee.
He taught them on the sabbath,
and they were astonished at his teaching
because he spoke with authority.
In the synagogue there was a man with the spirit of an unclean demon, and he cried out in a loud voice,
“What have you to do with us, Jesus of Nazareth?
Have you come to destroy us?
I know who you are–the Holy One of God!”
Jesus rebuked him and said, “Be quiet! Come out of him!”
Then the demon threw the man down in front of them
and came out of him without doing him any harm.
They were all amazed and said to one another,
“What is there about his word?
For with authority and power he commands the unclean spirits,
and they come out.”
And news of him spread everywhere in the surrounding region.
USCCB Lectionary
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Praying the Daily Gospels: A Guide to Meditation, by Philip St. Romain,
2018 (3rd ed.)
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Luke 4: 31-37 (Jesus cures a demoniac)
Outside his hometown Jesus finds people more open to his message and his healing. In today’s reading we learn that he teaches with authority, quite a novelty compared to the carefully measured words of the Jewish authorities. The Holy Spirit, the source of Jesus’ power and authority, silences other spirits of fragmentation, leaving the people amazed.
• Picture the scene described in today’s reading from the viewpoint of a member of the crowd, Observe Jesus’ encounter with the demoniac; hear the demon object to Jesus; see Jesus’ face as he touches the man. Listen to the people as they say, “What is there about him?” Let your spirit be buoyed by his Spirit.
• Pray for the grace to be more self-confident.
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Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
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BOOK I: CONTAINING A PREPARATION FOR THE WHOLE TREATISE
Chapter 18: That the natural inclination which we have to love God is not useless
But seeing we have not power naturally to love God above all things, why have we naturally an inclination to it? Is not nature vain to incite us to a love which she cannot bestow upon us? Why does she give us a thirst for a precious water of which she cannot give us to drink? Ah! Theotimus, how good God has been to us! The perfidy which we committed in
offending him deserved truly that he should have deprived us of all the marks of his benevolence, and of the favour which he deigned to our nature when he imprinted upon it the light of his divine countenance, and gave to our hearts the joyfulness of feeling themselves inclined to the love of the divine goodness: so that the angels seeing this miserable man would have had occasion to say in pity: Is this the creature of perfect beauty, the joy of all the earth?
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