18/02/07 Quinquagesima Sunday
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Collect fro Quinquagesima Sunday
O God, who before the passion of your onlybegotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Today's Scripture http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/
Psalm 148, 149, 150; Psalm 114, 115; Deut. 6:1-9; Heb. 12:18-29; John 12:24-32
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From Forward Day by Day: http://www.forwardmovement.org/todaysreading.cfm
1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13. Strive for the greater gifts.
Younger and younger we get as we age these days. Sixty is the new fifty, I hear, and I guess forty is a teenager now. You can get your eyes fixed and your chin suspended and your wrinkles zapped--you can even get plastic surgery on your hands, so their gnarliness doesn't give away your secret.
What is it about us that can no longer acknowledge age and rejoice in it? Assuming a certain openness to experience, wisdom comes with age. Don't we value wisdom any more? When did we decide to leave its compassionate interiority behind and focus instead on our outsides?
Or is it heaven we have decided against? Have we given up on there being any other world but this hard one, and then does the winter of life remind us more forcefully than we can bear of the nothingness ahead of us at its end? Have we foreclosed on our hope for eternal life?
Even if we have, we don't have to stay that way, not for a minute longer than we want to. The most superficial person in the world can decide at any time to live as if there were a heaven, as if there were more in life than just his own narrow vision and self-interest. Living in that way, she can come to believe that it's really true.
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Today we remember: http://satucket.com/lectionary/Calendar.htm
Martin Luther
Psalm 46; Isaiah 55:6-11; John 15:1-11
O God, our refuge and our strength, who raised up your servant Martin Luther to reform and renew your Church in the light of your word: Defend and purify the Church in our own day and grant that, through faith, we may boldly proclaim the riches of your grace, which you have made known in Jesus Christ our Savior, who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever.
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Today in the Anglican Cycle of Prayer we pray for the Diocese of Mbaise (Prov. II, Nigeria)
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm
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Carmelite.com: Reflections http://www.carmelite.com/spirituality/reflection.php
The Father spoke one Word, which was His Son, and this Word He always speaks in eternal silence, and in silence must It be heard by the soul.
St John of the Cross
Sayings of Light and Love.
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Reading from the Desert Christians http://www.cin.org/dsrtftin.html
On Love
Abba Poemen said, "There is no greater love than that a man lays down his life for revenge; then you are laying down your life for your neighbour."
One of the beloved of Christ who had the gift of mercy used to say, "The one who is filled with mercy ought to offer it in the same manner in which he has received it, for such is the mercy of God."
Abba Antony said, "I no longer fear God, I love him; for love casts out fear."
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Daily Meditation (Henri Nouwen) http://www.henrinouwen.org/home/free_eletters/
Creating Beautiful Memories
What happens during meals shapes a large part of our memories. As we grow older we forget many things, but we mostly remember the Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners in our families. We remember them with joy and gratitude or with sadness and anger. They remind us of the peace that existed in our homes or the conflicts that never seemed to get resolved. These special moments around the table stand out as vivid reminders of the quality of our lives together.
Today fast-food services and TV dinners have made common meals less and less central. But what will there be to remember when we no longer come together around the table to share a meal? Maybe we will have fewer painful memories, but will we have any joyful ones? Can we make the table a hospitable place, inviting us to kindness, gentleness, joy, and peace and creating beautiful memories?
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From the Principles of the Third Society of St. Francis:
Day Eighteen - The Second Way of Service (cont)
As well as the devotional study of Scripture, we all recognize our Christian
responsibility to pursue other branches of study, both sacred and secular.
In particular some of us accept the duty of contributing, through research
and writing, to a better understanding of the church's mission in the world:
the application of Christian principles to the use and distribution of
wealth; questions concerning justice and peace; and of all the other
questions concerning the life of faith.
Collect (Sunday)
God, your love led Francis and Clare to establish our three Orders: draw us
into your love that we may grow in love towards all with whom we have to do,
for the sake of your son, Jesus Christ, who gives himself in love to all.
Amen
You are holy, Lord,
the only God,
You do wonders. (Ps 76:15)
You are strong,
You are great,
You are the most high,
You are the almighty King.
You, Holy Father,
the king of heaven and earth.
(Jn 17:11; Mt 11:25)
You are Three and One,
Lord God of gods; (Ps 135:2)
You are good, all good, the highest good,
Lord, God, living and true. (I Thes 1:9)
You are love, charity.
You are wisdom;
You are humility;
You are patience (Ps 75:5)
You are beauty;
You are meekness;
You are security;
You are inner peace;
You are joy;
You are our hope and joy;
You are justice;
Your are moderation,
You all all our riches
[You are enough for us].
You are beauty, You are meekness;
You are the protector, (Ps 30:50)
You are our guardian and defender;
You are strength;
You are refreshment. (Ps 42:2)
You are our hope,
You are our faith,
You are our charity,
You are all our sweetness,
You are our eternal life:
Great and wonderful Lord,
God almighty, Merciful Savior.
From: http://www.osfsisterswpeoria.org/prayers/praises.htm
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Upper Room Daily Reflection http://www.upperroom.org/reflections/
IBLICAL SPIRITUALITY inspires acts of courage born of commitment to God. Such courage does not call persons to do the impossible but faithfully and selflessly to do what they can when they could have chosen otherwise. … Trust of God opens the door to courage.
- John Indermark
Neglected Voices
From page 84 of Neglected Voices by John Indermark. Copyright © 1999 by John Indermark.
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Richard Rohr's Daily Reflection
http://cacradicalgrace.org/getconnected/getconnected_index.html
"Take Up Your Cross"
The phrase "Take up your cross" has been softened by usage. We've all heard it since we've been kids; we don't get the punch of it anymore. The cross is not simply enduring your hangnail for the day for the love of Jesus, or putting up with the inconvenience that your air conditioner doesn't work. That's what it's become in affluent societies. The "cross" in the New Testament is precisely the suffering that comes into our lives by the choices we make for the Kingdom. In that sense it is always optional and voluntary. In other words, maybe I can't take this defense-industry job, which would allow my family to live with greater security and greater comfort. My conscience says no. I do not want to build weapons for the rest of the my life. I have to pay the price for that. We recognize the absolute and everything else becomes relative, including the economic and political systems. We proclaim that God is Lord, and therefore everything else is not lord. That's where the Kingdom proclamation relativists all of reality. If Jesus is Lord, then America is not lord. The Pentagon is not lord. The gross national product and economic development are not lord. Whiteness, neighborhood, culture, gender and denomination -all are not lord. I constantly meet good Catholics whose actual doctrine is the lordship of American institutions. They say, Don't knock the fee enterprise system. Don't knock capitalism. Don't knock the military-industrial complex. Our religious doctrines have often been allowed to become the smokescreen for our real doctrine: our privileged position. Christ is too often a cover for our de facto allegiance to Caesar.
from Letting Go: A Spirituality of Subtraction
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From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Tradition Day by Day: Readings from Church Writers. Augustinian Press. Villanova, PA, 1994.
http://www.artsci.villanova.edu/dsteelman/tradition/sources.html
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Today's reading from the Rule of St. Benedict http://www.osb.org/rb/
Chapter 15: At What Times "Alleluia" Is to Be Said
From holy Easter until Pentecost without interruption
let "Alleluia" be said
both in the Psalms and in the responsories.
From Pentecost to the beginning of Lent
let it be said every night
with the last six Psalms of the Night Office only.
On every Sunday, however, outside of Lent,
the canticles, the Morning Office, Prime, Terce, Sext and None
shall be said with "Alleluia,"
but Vespers with antiphons.
The responsories are never to be said with "Alleluia"
except from Easter to Pentecost.
Commentary: http://www.eriebenedictines.org/Pages/INSPIRATION/insights.html
site must be updated.
Commentary on the Rule by Gloriamarie:
At first glance, it might seem silly to waste time worrying about when one should or should not say Alleluia. Butt he change in the liturgy, the omission of the Alleluia forces our attention on the omission and the reason for it. And how grateful and glad I am for Easter when we can shout out "Alleluia, he is risen!"
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If you would like these meditations to come directly to your in box, please click here:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KnitternunMeditation/
Collect fro Quinquagesima Sunday
O God, who before the passion of your onlybegotten Son revealed his glory upon the holy mountain: Grant to us that we, beholding by faith the light of his countenance, may be strengthened to bear our cross, and be changed into his likeness from glory to glory; through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever. Amen.
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Today's Scripture http://www.satucket.com/lectionary/
Psalm 148, 149, 150; Psalm 114, 115; Deut. 6:1-9; Heb. 12:18-29; John 12:24-32
++++++++++
From Forward Day by Day: http://www.forwardmovement.org/todaysreading.cfm
1 Corinthians 12:27-13:13. Strive for the greater gifts.
Younger and younger we get as we age these days. Sixty is the new fifty, I hear, and I guess forty is a teenager now. You can get your eyes fixed and your chin suspended and your wrinkles zapped--you can even get plastic surgery on your hands, so their gnarliness doesn't give away your secret.
What is it about us that can no longer acknowledge age and rejoice in it? Assuming a certain openness to experience, wisdom comes with age. Don't we value wisdom any more? When did we decide to leave its compassionate interiority behind and focus instead on our outsides?
Or is it heaven we have decided against? Have we given up on there being any other world but this hard one, and then does the winter of life remind us more forcefully than we can bear of the nothingness ahead of us at its end? Have we foreclosed on our hope for eternal life?
Even if we have, we don't have to stay that way, not for a minute longer than we want to. The most superficial person in the world can decide at any time to live as if there were a heaven, as if there were more in life than just his own narrow vision and self-interest. Living in that way, she can come to believe that it's really true.
++++++++++
Today we remember: http://satucket.com/lectionary/Calendar.htm
Martin Luther
Psalm 46; Isaiah 55:6-11; John 15:1-11
O God, our refuge and our strength, who raised up your servant Martin Luther to reform and renew your Church in the light of your word: Defend and purify the Church in our own day and grant that, through faith, we may boldly proclaim the riches of your grace, which you have made known in Jesus Christ our Savior, who, with you and the Holy Spirit, lives and reigns, one God, now and for ever.
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Today in the Anglican Cycle of Prayer we pray for the Diocese of Mbaise (Prov. II, Nigeria)
http://www.anglicancommunion.org/acp/index.cfm
++++++++++
Carmelite.com: Reflections http://www.carmelite.com/spirituality/reflection.php
The Father spoke one Word, which was His Son, and this Word He always speaks in eternal silence, and in silence must It be heard by the soul.
St John of the Cross
Sayings of Light and Love.
++++++++++
Reading from the Desert Christians http://www.cin.org/dsrtftin.html
On Love
Abba Poemen said, "There is no greater love than that a man lays down his life for revenge; then you are laying down your life for your neighbour."
One of the beloved of Christ who had the gift of mercy used to say, "The one who is filled with mercy ought to offer it in the same manner in which he has received it, for such is the mercy of God."
Abba Antony said, "I no longer fear God, I love him; for love casts out fear."
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Daily Meditation (Henri Nouwen) http://www.henrinouwen.org/home/free_eletters/
Creating Beautiful Memories
What happens during meals shapes a large part of our memories. As we grow older we forget many things, but we mostly remember the Thanksgiving or Christmas dinners in our families. We remember them with joy and gratitude or with sadness and anger. They remind us of the peace that existed in our homes or the conflicts that never seemed to get resolved. These special moments around the table stand out as vivid reminders of the quality of our lives together.
Today fast-food services and TV dinners have made common meals less and less central. But what will there be to remember when we no longer come together around the table to share a meal? Maybe we will have fewer painful memories, but will we have any joyful ones? Can we make the table a hospitable place, inviting us to kindness, gentleness, joy, and peace and creating beautiful memories?
++++++++++
From the Principles of the Third Society of St. Francis:
Day Eighteen - The Second Way of Service (cont)
As well as the devotional study of Scripture, we all recognize our Christian
responsibility to pursue other branches of study, both sacred and secular.
In particular some of us accept the duty of contributing, through research
and writing, to a better understanding of the church's mission in the world:
the application of Christian principles to the use and distribution of
wealth; questions concerning justice and peace; and of all the other
questions concerning the life of faith.
Collect (Sunday)
God, your love led Francis and Clare to establish our three Orders: draw us
into your love that we may grow in love towards all with whom we have to do,
for the sake of your son, Jesus Christ, who gives himself in love to all.
Amen
You are holy, Lord,
the only God,
You do wonders. (Ps 76:15)
You are strong,
You are great,
You are the most high,
You are the almighty King.
You, Holy Father,
the king of heaven and earth.
(Jn 17:11; Mt 11:25)
You are Three and One,
Lord God of gods; (Ps 135:2)
You are good, all good, the highest good,
Lord, God, living and true. (I Thes 1:9)
You are love, charity.
You are wisdom;
You are humility;
You are patience (Ps 75:5)
You are beauty;
You are meekness;
You are security;
You are inner peace;
You are joy;
You are our hope and joy;
You are justice;
Your are moderation,
You all all our riches
[You are enough for us].
You are beauty, You are meekness;
You are the protector, (Ps 30:50)
You are our guardian and defender;
You are strength;
You are refreshment. (Ps 42:2)
You are our hope,
You are our faith,
You are our charity,
You are all our sweetness,
You are our eternal life:
Great and wonderful Lord,
God almighty, Merciful Savior.
From: http://www.osfsisterswpeoria.org/prayers/praises.htm
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Upper Room Daily Reflection http://www.upperroom.org/reflections/
IBLICAL SPIRITUALITY inspires acts of courage born of commitment to God. Such courage does not call persons to do the impossible but faithfully and selflessly to do what they can when they could have chosen otherwise. … Trust of God opens the door to courage.
- John Indermark
Neglected Voices
From page 84 of Neglected Voices by John Indermark. Copyright © 1999 by John Indermark.
+++++++++++
Richard Rohr's Daily Reflection
http://cacradicalgrace.org/getconnected/getconnected_index.html
"Take Up Your Cross"
The phrase "Take up your cross" has been softened by usage. We've all heard it since we've been kids; we don't get the punch of it anymore. The cross is not simply enduring your hangnail for the day for the love of Jesus, or putting up with the inconvenience that your air conditioner doesn't work. That's what it's become in affluent societies. The "cross" in the New Testament is precisely the suffering that comes into our lives by the choices we make for the Kingdom. In that sense it is always optional and voluntary. In other words, maybe I can't take this defense-industry job, which would allow my family to live with greater security and greater comfort. My conscience says no. I do not want to build weapons for the rest of the my life. I have to pay the price for that. We recognize the absolute and everything else becomes relative, including the economic and political systems. We proclaim that God is Lord, and therefore everything else is not lord. That's where the Kingdom proclamation relativists all of reality. If Jesus is Lord, then America is not lord. The Pentagon is not lord. The gross national product and economic development are not lord. Whiteness, neighborhood, culture, gender and denomination -all are not lord. I constantly meet good Catholics whose actual doctrine is the lordship of American institutions. They say, Don't knock the fee enterprise system. Don't knock capitalism. Don't knock the military-industrial complex. Our religious doctrines have often been allowed to become the smokescreen for our real doctrine: our privileged position. Christ is too often a cover for our de facto allegiance to Caesar.
from Letting Go: A Spirituality of Subtraction
++++++++++
From John E. Rotelle, O.S.A., Tradition Day by Day: Readings from Church Writers. Augustinian Press. Villanova, PA, 1994.
http://www.artsci.villanova.edu/dsteelman/tradition/sources.html
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Today's reading from the Rule of St. Benedict http://www.osb.org/rb/
Chapter 15: At What Times "Alleluia" Is to Be Said
From holy Easter until Pentecost without interruption
let "Alleluia" be said
both in the Psalms and in the responsories.
From Pentecost to the beginning of Lent
let it be said every night
with the last six Psalms of the Night Office only.
On every Sunday, however, outside of Lent,
the canticles, the Morning Office, Prime, Terce, Sext and None
shall be said with "Alleluia,"
but Vespers with antiphons.
The responsories are never to be said with "Alleluia"
except from Easter to Pentecost.
Commentary: http://www.eriebenedictines.org/Pages/INSPIRATION/insights.html
site must be updated.
Commentary on the Rule by Gloriamarie:
At first glance, it might seem silly to waste time worrying about when one should or should not say Alleluia. Butt he change in the liturgy, the omission of the Alleluia forces our attention on the omission and the reason for it. And how grateful and glad I am for Easter when we can shout out "Alleluia, he is risen!"
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