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To meet everything and everyone through stillness instead of mental noise is the greatest gift you can offer to the universe.
- Eckhart Tolle, Stillness Speaks
(Take more time for silence these days. Let there be room in your heart for the coming of Christ.)
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Is 40:25-31; PS 103:1-2, 3-4, 8 and 10
Mt 11:28-30
Jesus said to the crowds:
“Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you and learn from me,
for I am meek and humble of heart;
and you will find rest for yourselves.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden light.”
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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Matthew 11:28-30 (The gentle Christ)
We sometimes hear people sharing their confusion and struggle as they try to discover what God's will is for them. Today's reading reminds us that God's will is meant to be refreshing, not burdensome. God is a loving support, not a judgmental taskmaster.
• What does Jesus mean when he says his yoke is easy, his burden light? How do you experience this?
• Spend some time with the words "Come to me." Let yourself feel God's desire for you to he with him.
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Treatise on the Love of God, by St. Francis de Sales (1567-1622)
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BOOK II: THE HISTORY OF THE GENERATION AND HEAVENLY BIRTH OF DIVINE LOVE
Chapter 3: Of the divine providence in general
Now, Theotimus, speaking of heavenly things according to the impression we have gained by the consideration of human things, we affirm that God, having had an eternal and most perfect knowledge of the art of making the world for his glory, disposed before all things in his divine understanding all the principal parts of the universe which might render
him honour; to wit, angelic and human nature,--and in the angelic nature the variety of hierarchies and orders, as the sacred Scripture and holy doctors teach us; as also among men he ordained that there should be that great diversity which we see. Further, in this same eternity he provided and determined in his mind all the means requisite for men and angels to come to the end for which he had ordained them, and so made the act of his providence; and not stopping there, he, in order to effect
what he had disposed, really created angels and men, and to effect his providence he did and does by his government furnish reasonable creatures with all things necessary to attain glory, so that, to say it in a word, sovereign providence is no other thing than the act whereby God furnishes men or angels with the means necessary or useful for the obtaining of their end. But because these means are of different kinds we also diversify the name of providence, and say that there is one providence
natural, another supernatural, and that the latter again is general, or special, or particular.
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