tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-252204352024-03-07T01:30:49.201-05:00Your Tripod"Your Tripod" reflects the personal Fourth Day journeys of its authors and editors. We are happy to have companions like you share in this project. Our prayer is that these reflections will invite and inspire your Fourth Day journey of Piety, Study and Action as much as writing or editing them inspires our journey and brings us all close moments with Jesus and our neighbors.Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.comBlogger5319125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-87189712425739399872022-04-25T22:08:00.001-04:002023-02-01T14:06:04.190-05:00The Wind Blows Where It Wills<p></p><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjAAtuGU4H1ISe_7XD0-w-tAq56N6Ry8h_sqgmemsKsqknYIXgc5xrBfGXkFt7uBqnw486f8LpD0I-0-7wi1Sf1updTwIYe3L07Lm3Dm4llSixhZsi2Le4WzjN_Tm3eAFrY3l-j5SHyXDLy880N-h-6beVfIQAV23ubJ2dOZqJqdbu_aJPYs/s1281/Image-1b.jpg" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="850" data-original-width="1281" height="236" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjmjAAtuGU4H1ISe_7XD0-w-tAq56N6Ry8h_sqgmemsKsqknYIXgc5xrBfGXkFt7uBqnw486f8LpD0I-0-7wi1Sf1updTwIYe3L07Lm3Dm4llSixhZsi2Le4WzjN_Tm3eAFrY3l-j5SHyXDLy880N-h-6beVfIQAV23ubJ2dOZqJqdbu_aJPYs/w357-h236/Image-1b.jpg" width="357" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Easter Vigil, 2006, St. Mary of Sorrows</td></tr></tbody></table><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042622.cfm" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">Tuesday of the Second
Week of Easter</a><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Lectionary:
268</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Piety<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The
community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any
of his possessions was his own, but they had everything in common…There was no
needy person among them, for those who owned property or houses would sell
them, bring the proceeds of the sale, and put them at the feet of the Apostles,
and they were distributed to each according to need.</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> Acts 4:32, 34-35</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus said
to Nicodemus: “‘You must be born from above.’ The wind blows where it wills,
and you can hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or
where it goes; so, it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> John 3:7b-8</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Study<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Nicodemus is
back…well, sort of. We last encountered
Nicodemus on Good Friday at the foot of the cross. Now, we get a flashback to when he first approached
Jesus like the phantom of the temple-night, curious about who this
carpenter-preacher was and by what authority he taught.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">This second
week of Easter officially starts with Divine Mercy Sunday. Thus far, we have had stories of three men
who all needed divine mercy to overcome their doubts (Thomas), the new voice
crying out in the post-Resurrection wilderness (Mark), and now this
Pharisee-turning-disciple. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe they
are perfect examples for us, to remember our flaws and our need for the
perfection of God’s love.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Did the
conversation between Jesus and Nicodemus change anything? I think so.
Including this three-question interrogation, Nicodemus appears a total
of three times in John’s Gospel.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Later, Nicodemus
defended Jesus in the temple when the plot was being hatched by the Pharisees
to arrest him. Then he returned with
Joseph of Arimathea to bury the body of Jesus after the Lord dies on the
cross. When others had left him,
Nicodemus was there performing the spiritual works of mercy.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The conversation
led to conversion. It is an interesting
relationship that comes back to the roots of both words. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: red; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Action
<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Just as Nicodemus emerges from the darkness,
our easter call is to come out of the darkness that is conquered by the Paschal
Candle. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Come toward the light. Come toward the light. Come toward the
light.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: #222222; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Where is the wind blowing you? <o:p></o:p></span></p>Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-29930512553408482702022-04-24T20:46:00.000-04:002022-04-24T20:46:02.131-04:00“But Still Believe” by Rev. Paul Berghout<p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042422.cfm" style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></a></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieIHt6BZ1CHzVUjuyBHymNEUjvotZRTh7F2fUZooTEKekHFwNtR6GNHPHS4kscjmE9_cuFGYuGXqyQPRRB6rddBDF4dbJusITeFhDZn2ZjGOlSy-12TX9WObuGCYT--Y0zZRInW52MsBCTHVmH-D9A1Le_GrpdXJ_pKD6WuT09ZtHtcTycaDc/s3420/Divine-Mercy.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3420" data-original-width="2400" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEieIHt6BZ1CHzVUjuyBHymNEUjvotZRTh7F2fUZooTEKekHFwNtR6GNHPHS4kscjmE9_cuFGYuGXqyQPRRB6rddBDF4dbJusITeFhDZn2ZjGOlSy-12TX9WObuGCYT--Y0zZRInW52MsBCTHVmH-D9A1Le_GrpdXJ_pKD6WuT09ZtHtcTycaDc/s320/Divine-Mercy.jpg" width="225" /></a></div><br />Second Sunday of Easter<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span class="MsoHyperlink"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/042422.cfm">Sunday of Divine Mercy</a></span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<h2><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Piety<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Thus, they even carried the sick out
into the streets and laid them on cots and mats so that when Peter came by, at
least his shadow might fall on one or another of them. A large number of people
from the towns in the vicinity of Jerusalem also gathered, bringing the sick
and those disturbed by unclean spirits, and they were all cured.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">
Acts 5:15-16</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">I, John, your brother, who share with
you the distress, the kingdom, and the endurance we have in Jesus, found myself
on the island called Patmos because I proclaimed God’s word and gave testimony
to Jesus. I was caught up in spirit on the Lord’s Day and heard behind me a
voice as loud as a trumpet, which said, “Write on a scroll what you see.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> Revelation 1:9-11a</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">You believe in me, Thomas, because you
have seen me, says the Lord; blessed are those who have not seen me, but still,
believe!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> John 20:29</span></p>
<h2><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Study<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Lamentations 3:19 says “His mercies
begin afresh each day.” God gives you a fresh start each day.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Mercy—God’s gift-of-self within the
Trinity to his gift-of-self to us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Mercy is a gift given and to be
shared.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">A man named Charles was lying in a
hospital bed near death. Anyone who knew Charles would tell you he was not a
nice man. He drank too much; he was verbally abusive to his wife and children.
However, he did ask for a Chaplain. So, the nursing staff was a little
surprised when Charles asked to speak to a Chaplain. Charles asked the chaplain
to pray for him. “What do you want to
say to God?" the Chaplain asked. "Tell God that I am sorry for the
way my life has turned out,” Charles said. </span><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Tell him that I am sorry for the way
I treated my wife and kids and that I've always loved them." "Sure, I
can do that,” the chaplain said.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Is there anything else?"</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Yes,” Charles said, “Tell God that I
know I have no right to ask this -- but, I would like to be able to live with
him. "<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">The source of mercy are the wounds of
Christ.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">We can even look at the world through
these wounds.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Saint Teresa of Avila said once about
a suicide, “between the bridge and the river there was time and space enough
for the mercy of God.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Receiving mercy helps us to give up
things that are not good for us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Mystical hope is our ability to consciously
abide in “the Mercy” of God. Hope fills us with the strength to stay present,
to abide in the flow of the Mercy no matter what outer storms assail us.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">It is entered always and only through
surrender; that is, through the willingness to let go of everything we are
presently clinging to.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">And yet when we enter it, it enters us
and fills us with its own life—a quiet strength beyond anything we have ever
known.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Receiving mercy means having the image
of Divine Mercy with you and in your homes</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">St. Faustina burned the first version
of her diary however, she was ordered to write it again, however, her spiritual
director was able to remember some of the messages that were lost.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“When chastisements for sins come upon
the world and your own country will experience utter degradation, the only
refuge will be trust in My mercy. I will protect the cities and homes in which
the Divine Mercy Image is found; I will protect the persons who will venerate
this Image. The only refuge will be
trust in My Mercy. . .</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Let everyone procure for their home
this Image because there will yet come trials.
And those homes, and entire families, and every one individual who will
hold this image of mercy in deep reverence, I will preserve from every sort of
misfortune. The time will come when all
those who do so will give witness to the miraculous efficacy and the special
protection of mercy flowing from this image.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">We can look at the world through the
wounds—</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">So, we can show mercy to others and
even to places--</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Look at the Volcán San Miguel y Cerro
Mico Peinado through the wounds of Christ; look at Nicaragua through the wounds
of Christ.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Hear your husband’s or wife’s voice
through the wounds of Christ; Respond to some broken, bleeding part of the
world through the wounds of Christ and pay attention to how the experience of
touching wounds changes you.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Frances Caryll Houselander was a
Catholic mystic in the 1940s. She was riding in a London subway and she saw
Christ “in everyone one of them.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Christ was living in them, dying in
them, rejoicing in them, sorrowing in them—and rising in them. She said: I came
out into the street and walked for a long time in the crowds. It was the same
here, on every side, in every passer-by, everywhere—Christ.</span></p>
<h2><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-size: 14.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Action<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Jesus did not just tell people about
the forgiveness of sins, he told them in a performative utterance, “Your sins
are forgiven” and in John 20:23, Jesus gives that power to just his apostles.</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Absolution brings peace. This offering
of peace “be with you” is strangely powerful for several reasons. The world
around them is not peaceful. Enemies want them dead. Christ’s mysterious peace
evokes something beyond the normal sense of that word.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">That’s Divine Mercy, Amen</span></p>Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-51590811682563384492022-04-18T10:46:00.001-04:002022-04-18T10:46:13.426-04:00 “Go Tell”<p><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041822.cfm" target="_blank">Monday in the Octave of Easter</a></p><div class="WordSection1">
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>“You who are children of Israel, hear these words. Jesus
the Nazorean was a man commended to you by God with mighty deeds, wonders, and
signs, which God worked through him in your midst, as you yourselves know. This
man, delivered up by the set plan and foreknowledge of God, you killed, using
lawless men to crucify him. But God raised him up, releasing him from the
throes of death because it was impossible for him to be held by it.</i> (Acts 2:22-24)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i>Mary Magdalene and the other Mary went away quickly from
the tomb, fearful yet overjoyed, and ran to announce the news to his disciples.
And behold, Jesus met them on their way and greeted them. They approached,
embraced his feet, and did him homage. Then Jesus said to them, “Do not be
afraid. Go tell my brothers to go to Galilee, and there they will see me.”</i>
(Matthew 28:8-10)<o:p></o:p></p>
<h2><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Piety<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b>"Easter" by Gerard Manley Hopkins</b><o:p></o:p></p>
</div>
<div class="WordSection2"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Break the box
and shed the nard;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Stop not now to
count the cost;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Hither bring
pearl, opal, sard;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Reck not what
the poor have lost;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Upon Christ
throw all away:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Know ye, this
is Easter Day.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Build His
church and deck His shrine,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Empty though it
be on earth;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Ye have kept
your choicest wine—<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Let it flow for
heavenly mirth;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Pluck the harp
and breathe the horn:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Know ye not
'tis Easter morn?<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Gather gladness
from the skies;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Take a lesson
from the ground;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Flowers do ope
their heavenward eyes<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">And a
Spring-time joy have found;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Earth throws
Winter's robes away,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Decks herself
for Easter Day.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Beauty now for
ashes wear,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Perfumes for
the garb of woe,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Chaplets for
dishevelled hair,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dances for sad
footsteps slow;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Open wide your
hearts that they<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Let in joy this
Easter Day.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Seek God's
house in happy throng;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Crowded let His
table be;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mingle praises,
prayer, and song,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Singing to the
Trinity.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Henceforth let
your souls alway<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Make each morn
an Easter Day.</p></div>
<h2><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Study<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">When we are young(er/), our introduction to religion is
through rules and rote. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You know the rules. Go to Mass on Sunday. Go to confession once a year. Don’t eat meat on Fridays. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You probably still remember the rote. After the Our Father and Hail Mary, who among
those born in the 1950s cannot recite the answer to one or more questions in
the infamous Baltimore Catechism? Like
this one: Why did God make us? To gain the happiness of heaven we must know,
love, and serve God in this world. (Sondes
like the seeds for Piety Study and Action were planted in Charm City, no?)</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">The sense I get in today’s readings is that we don’t do
these acts or believe these tenets because of any requirement. They are part of our nature. May was already
heading away from the tomb to announce the news to the disciples. She did not need Jesus to tell her what to do. It was impossible after all she had seen not
to go tell it on the mountain. Jesus did
not need God to break the chains of death.
He couldn't be held by those chains.</p>
<h2><b><span style="color: #c00000;">Action<o:p></o:p></span></b></h2>
<p class="MsoNormal">Hopkins reminds us that Flowers do not need to be taught to
grow. </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Where will you bring the Good News this Easter Week? How will you “make each morn an Easter Day”?</p>Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-56706415854251765822022-04-16T12:04:00.002-04:002022-04-16T12:04:48.356-04:00“Let Him Easter in Us” by Rev. Paul Berghout<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiM5lT6HiBwmAbSCyrgbmdUoW9Jxh3EJ-Wmn0Lui2HBbFu7Sef3OQKyxk-sMwEREjgK6AnjzQbMRMaZrhvZMW7_-4F71vzZDVOFlP2ezDARfWD04DI4L_r4zLTFON2uM5pQLyUQ-Z5HpNm4qmahq1A2y_Zwzbh4sBz8EooAM1ltSlDgp19obB8" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img alt="" data-original-height="640" data-original-width="1197" height="214" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/a/AVvXsEiM5lT6HiBwmAbSCyrgbmdUoW9Jxh3EJ-Wmn0Lui2HBbFu7Sef3OQKyxk-sMwEREjgK6AnjzQbMRMaZrhvZMW7_-4F71vzZDVOFlP2ezDARfWD04DI4L_r4zLTFON2uM5pQLyUQ-Z5HpNm4qmahq1A2y_Zwzbh4sBz8EooAM1ltSlDgp19obB8=w400-h214" width="400" /></a></div><br />Easter Sunday the Resurrection of the Lord<p></p><div class="WordSection1"><p class="MsoNormal"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/041722.cfm">The
Mass of Easter Day</a></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Piety </b> </p><p class="MsoNormal"><b>Excerpts from “The Wreck of the Deutschland”<a href="file:///C:/Users/prtit/2022/Tripods/Fr%20Paul/Let%20Him%20Easter%20in%20Us.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><b><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Calibri Light",sans-serif; font-size: 13.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: major-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: major-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: major-fareast; mso-hansi-theme-font: major-latin; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">[i]</span></b></span></span></a>
By Gerard Manley Hopkins</b></p>
</div><p>…Now burn, new
born to the world,</p><div class="WordSection2"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Doubled-naturèd
name,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The
heaven-flung, heart-fleshed, maiden-furled<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Miracle-in-Mary-of-flame,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mid-numbered he
in three of the thunder-throne!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Not a dooms-day
dazzle in his coming nor dark as he came;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Kind, but
royally reclaiming his own;<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">A released
shower, let flash to the shire, not a lightning of fíre hard-hurled.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Dame, at our
door<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Drowned, and
among our shoals,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Remember us in
the roads, the heaven-haven of the Reward:<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Our Kíng back,
Oh, upon énglish sóuls!<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><i>Let him
easter in us,</i></b> be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a
crimson-cresseted east,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">More
brightening her, rare-dear Britain, as his reign rolls,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Pride, rose,
prince, hero of us, high-priest,<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Our hearts'
charity's hearth's fire, our thoughts' chivalry's throng's Lord.<o:p></o:p></p>
</div><p><b><br /></b></p><p><b>Study</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The great Jesuit-Poet
Gerard Manley Hopkins wrote the line, “Let him easter in us.”<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Easter is
something that happens to us. It’s a
verb, from the darkness into light.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Mary Magdalen
has been “eastered” (freed by Jesus).</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Simon Peter has
been eastered (the wisdom and joy of a person forgiven!)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Saint Paul has
been eastered (a complete turnaround!)</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">They have been
eastered – God can and does take the worst thing in the world and turn it into
the best thing.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">We have been
eastered in receiving Holy Communion in grace.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The people who
have not been eastered explain why even though evil and hatred and suffering
have been overpowered, they still hang around by the free will of people.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Being eastered
means having interior “movements” of the soul that gives us Easter joy and
strength.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">It means that I
allow myself to feel what I am feeling, bringing them to prayer and asking the
Holy Spirit to use these emotions to move me forward in some way. Being
eastered by hope to stay present, to abide in the flow of Mercy through
yielding to it.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Christ
eastering within us means we have a new center and core from which we live. We
now live Christ’s life.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Saint Paul
said,</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: .5in; margin-right: 0in; margin-top: 0in;"><i>It is no longer I who live, but it is
Christ who lives in me. And the life I now live in the flesh I live by faith in
the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.</i> (Gal. 2:19-20)<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">The two men in
clothes that gleamed like lightning said, “He has risen! Remember how he told
you, while he was still with you in Galilee.”</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Galilee is
where he told them that he would die and be raised up. Go there to that place
of prophecy where you begin anew. This is where the Christian mission resumes.
Pope Francis says we must find a Galilee; a returning to our first love, the
origin of our journey with Jesus.</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b>Action</b></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Where is Jesus
telling you to go to begin anew?<o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">How will your
life be different with Christ eastering in you?</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;">Amen. </p><p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="file:///C:/Users/prtit/2022/Tripods/Fr%20Paul/Let%20Him%20Easter%20in%20Us.docx#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Times New Roman",serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></a> Hopkins dedicated his poem
“The Wreck of the Deutschland” to the happy memory of five Franciscan Nuns,
exiles by the Falk Laws, who drowned between midnight and the morning of Dec. 7th, 1875.
Italics added. <o:p></o:p></p><p class="MsoEndnoteText">Photo from Main Street Baptist Church, Bath, Maine.</p>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">I am heeding you By Beth DeCristofaro</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Abraham
prostrated himself and laughed as he said to himself, “Can a child be born to a
man who is a hundred years old? Or can Sarah give birth at ninety?” Then
Abraham said to God, “Let but Ishmael live on by your favor!” God replied: “Nevertheless, your wife Sarah is to bear you a son, and you shall call him Isaac. I will maintain my covenant with him as an
everlasting pact, to be his God and the God of his descendants after him. As for Ishmael, I am heeding you: I hereby bless him. I will make him fertile
and will multiply him exceedingly.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Genesis 17:17-20)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">And
then a leper approached, did (Jesus) homage, and said, “Lord, if you wish, you
can make me clean.” He stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, “I will
do it. Be made clean.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Matthew 8:2-3)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #385623; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus,
my friend, prepare my heart to receive your surprising gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And soften my heart to share them among all
your friends.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #385623; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">The
readings today amplify God’s generous work in the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both Abraham and the leper are given new
lives and new community, surprise gifts. I am touched by their approach to the
divine – gentle skepticism? Push back? Yet hope and yearning. Divinity assures
each that they are heard.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In
other Scripture passages, people respond with what appears to be skepticism,
and God’s answer is not acceptance and generosity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>King Ahaz famously answers God’s offer to
“ask for a sign” by saying <i>I will not ask; I will not put the LORD to the
test</i> (Isaiah 7:12). The Pharisees and Sadducees devise questions to trap
Jesus, who rightly points out their duplicity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>God sees into our hearts and responds to Truth, not to words.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And God wants our hearts to be one with
Jesus, one with the Word.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In
his Angelus address June 20, Pope Francis said, “Faith begins from believing
that we are not enough for ourselves, from feeling in need of God. When we
overcome the temptation to close ourselves off, when we overcome the false
religiosity that does not want to disturb God, when we cry out to him, he can
work wonders in us. It is the gentle and extraordinary power of prayer, which
works miracles.<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a>”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #385623; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 128;">Action</span></b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In believing that we are not enough for ourselves
but that we first and foremost need God, our hearts become open to God’s
surprising gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And also, our hearts
become primed to expect surprising gifts for all those God loves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We no longer need to categorize or judge
ourselves or others.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">What does my heart hold as Jesus approaches me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do I cling to narrow definitions of myself
and others?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>How can I better invite and
accept Jesus’ cleansing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God is heeding
me.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> “Journey
with the Pope”, Missio, June 24, 2021</p>
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Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-71994676502731148412021-06-22T09:44:00.006-04:002021-06-22T09:44:49.263-04:00 “The Narrow Gate” by Colleen O’Sullivan<p style="margin: 0in;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062221.cfm">Tuesday of
the Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The land could not support (Abram and Lot) if they
stayed together; their possessions were so great that they could not dwell
together. So, Abram said to Lot: “Please separate from me. Lot looked about him
and saw how well watered the whole Jordan Plain was as far as Zoar like the
Lord’s own garden or Egypt. This was before the Lord had destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah.
Lot, therefore, chose for himself the whole Jordan Plain and set out eastward. Abram
stayed in the land of Canaan, while Lot settled among the cities of the Plain,
pitching his tents near Sodom. Now the inhabitants of Sodom were very wicked in
the sins they committed against the Lord. (Genesis 13:6, 9b, 10-11a, 12-13)</span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Jesus said to his disciples: “Do to others whatever
you would have them do to you. This is the Law and the Prophets... Enter
through the narrow gate; for the gate is wide and the road broad that leads to
destruction, and those who enter through it are many. How narrow the gate and
constricted the road that leads to life. And those who find it are few.” (Matthew
7:12-14)</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #3f6228; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Lord, help me look at myself honestly, seek
forgiveness where it is needed, and ask for your help in living a more
Christ-like life in what I think, say, and do.</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #3f6228; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Our Gospel reading
today is still part of the Sermon on the Mount, which, in its entirety, is more
likely a collection of Jesus’ sayings over time on the qualities found in a
true disciple than a one-time actual sermon. In today’s verses, Jesus talks
about the Golden Rule, treating others as we would like to be treated, as well
as the narrow gate that leads to eternal life. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Getting through
this narrow gate requires being intentionally Christ-like in our actions and
direction in life. That, in turn, means we need to be mindful of all we say and
do. However, many of us don’t examine ourselves that closely – our thoughts,
our intentions, or our actual actions. Consequently, we float obliviously
through the wide gate much of the time on any given day.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">I thought
about those wide and narrow gates as I read the story of Abram and Lot. Abram
is a generous uncle to his nephew Lot. Both of them have large households, and extensive
livestock holdings, more than one parcel of land could support. They need two
separate holdings. They stand together, surveying the land as far as the eye can
see. Abram gives Lot the first choice as to where he, his family, and flocks
will go. Lot seems rather self-centered. He looks to the horizon, and he
selects the more beautiful-looking portion of the land (at least at a
distance). In his eagerness to get the better piece of land, he forgets that
this choice will put him just down the road from Sodom and Gomorrah, two places
infamous for their sinful ways.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">According to
Genesis, life goes on for years, and then, one day, God can’t put up with the
iniquity pervasive in Sodom or Gomorrah any longer. God destroys the cities but
not before having two angels visit Lot to warn him, so he and his family can
escape. Eventually, all that gorgeous, fertile pasture land dries up, and a
long time later, the Dead Sea appears. Lot ends up being spared, but his dreams
go up in smoke. All that is left are the ashes.</span><b><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color: #3f6228; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">When I was
young, I found the image of the narrow gate frightening. What would a person
have to do to slip through it? </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">God doesn’t usually
seem to punish us as much as allows us to reap the consequences of our sinful
decisions and actions. Lot didn’t seem that caring about his uncle. He didn’t
seem appreciative of the hugely generous gesture on his uncle’s part, allowing
him first say. All Lot could see was a bountiful expanse of pastureland in the
distance, which he wanted for himself. He let his greed blind him to the downside,
the sin, and temptation present in the town nearest his intended home.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Maybe Lot had
never heard the saying: <i>Don’t go looking for trouble. Trouble will find you
soon enough</i>. He didn’t use caution in terms of the people in whose
neighborhood he chose to live. He lost his wife while they were fleeing, his
fertile land, and presumably his livestock. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">When I was
much younger, I was much too busy with work and outside activities. I remember
thinking one day that I had my schedule totally in hand. I got up every morning
and went through my day as though I were the God in control of things. God
expects us to take care of ourselves, and I went off track. I was brought up
short when I landed in the hospital for a couple of weeks and then had to spend
a long time recovering after that. I was reminded that even Jesus went off to
quiet places and rested from time to time. I tell myself today that the first
step toward the narrow gate is acknowledging first thing every morning that God
is in control.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">When you
think about the narrow gate, is there anything you would like to improve upon
or change in your life? When you are praying today, ask Jesus to help you. Jesus
desires to welcome each of us on the other side of that narrow opening.</span></p>Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-82338474557271031452021-06-20T08:03:00.001-04:002021-06-20T08:04:44.733-04:00“Be Still” by Rev. Paul Berghout<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7X6Fx1GpLV8/YM8uU9wDxWI/AAAAAAAAOh8/7s0hSAYWd7Yh0EReXXT1iDwv501uXINdACLcBGAsYHQ/s1024/IMG_9920.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="576" data-original-width="1024" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-7X6Fx1GpLV8/YM8uU9wDxWI/AAAAAAAAOh8/7s0hSAYWd7Yh0EReXXT1iDwv501uXINdACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/IMG_9920.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />“Be Still”
by Rev. Paul Berghout</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062021.cfm">Twelfth Sunday in
Ordinary Time</a></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Piety</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The Lord
addressed Job out of the storm and said: Who shut within doors the sea, when it
burst forth from the womb; when I made the clouds its garment and thick
darkness its swaddling bands?</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Job 38:1, 8-9)</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(Jesus) woke
up, rebuked the wind, and said to the sea, “Quiet! Be still!” The wind ceased
and there was great calm. Then he asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you
not yet have faith?” </span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">(Mark 4:39-40)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Study</span></b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The boat was
26.5 feet long, 7.5 wide and 4.5 feet high, the fore and aft sections were
decked.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus had
gone to the back of the boat to catch a nap, and then a storm hits.</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Why doesn’t
he intervene?” “Do you not care that we are perishing?” </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Glen
Scrivener says that a few years ago he prayed to God that he would get to know
God better. Within a week of that prayer, Glenn’s employers transferred him
from England to Australia, his longtime girlfriend broke up with him, and
parents announced they were divorcing. In the midst of all these painful
events, Glen had a revelation: God was using these storms to answer Glenn’s
prayer. He realized that Jesus often leads to challenging pathways, into a
storm because we can’t understand the power and the peace of God UNLESS we
encounter it a storm. The best way to know is to be caught in a storm with Him.<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">That is a
lesson the disciples had to learn, and they could not learn it any other way.
--“Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?”</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">All of us
will encounter storms.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The question
is whether we have faith for the storms.</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A few years
ago, a woman named Chastity Patterson lost her father. After his death,
Chastity continued to send daily text messages to his old phone number. She
just wanted to feel like he was still there, still sharing the ups and downs of
her daily life. It was her way of dealing with a storm of grief. For four
years, she sent daily text updates to her father’s old phone number. And then
one day, she got a reply. <a href="#_edn2" name="_ednref2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Just before
the fourth anniversary of Chastity's father’s death, she received this text
from his old number: “My name is Brad and I lost my daughter in a car wreck
August 2014 and your messages have kept me alive. When you text me, I know it’s
a message from God.”</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Chastity
posted their text exchange on social media to show her friends and family “that
there is a God it might take 4 years, but he shows up right on time!”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In the Bible
two other people were also asleep in a boat during a storm: Jonah and a drunk
person in Proverbs 23:34. But only Jesus got up and said “Be Still” (it was
actually more like Shut Up) because linguistically there is a linkage between
exorcism and rebuking the sea.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The waves
are akin to persecution whose source is Satan’s implacable hostility to Jesus’
mission.</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus is
overcoming the demonic element it was his purpose to destroy, because that
element is at enmity with God, and therefore with God's creature, man.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">"The
breakers of death engulfed me." or “The waves of death swirled about me;
the torrents of destruction overwhelmed me.”</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (2 Samuel 22:5)</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“He drew me
out of many waters. He delivered me from my strong enemies."</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (2 Sam
22:17-18).</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">One writer
suggests that “maybe he was inviting the disciples to reflect on what it means
to be alive on the other side of a situation they thought would kill them. For
us, that situation might be a divorce, an illness, the death of a parent or
even a child, the loss of a job, depression, or middle school. It can feel as
if it’s going to kill us.</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Maybe, if we
survive the situation, we are being encouraged to ask questions. Where was my
faith? Where was God? What did I fear?”<a href="#_edn3" name="_ednref3" style="mso-endnote-id: edn3;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[iii]</span></span></span></span></a></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">There are
several Old Testament verses in which sleeping peacefully is a sign of trust in
God’s provident care (Psalms 3:5, 4:8, Proverbs 3:24).</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Then he
asked them, “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith? </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Faulty
thinking, that God does care instead of believing in God’s Provident care.</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Action</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Be still,
you are exactly where you are supposed to be. The Lord is master even of those
things</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">. </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">St. Therese
says that Jesus was sleeping as usual in her little boat, saying, “Ah, I see
very well how rarely souls allow Him to sleep peacefully within them.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Divorce is
no real solution for many stormy marriage problems. Hang in there and make it
through the storm.</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Life isn’t
about waiting for the storm to pass. It’s about learning how to dance in the
rain” (Anonymous).</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Greater is
He that is in you” than any force trying to overwhelm you.”</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (1 John 4:4)</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Amen.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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<div id="edn1" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> Dynamic Preaching]</span></p>
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<div id="edn2" style="mso-element: endnote;">
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="#_ednref2" name="_edn2" style="mso-endnote-id: edn2;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[ii]</span></span></span></span></a> Dynamic Preaching]</span></p>
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<p></p><p class="BodyTextNoIndent"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“My
Grace Is Sufficient” by Melanie Rigney</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061921.cfm"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Saturday of
the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time</span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">(B)ut
he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for power is made perfect in
weakness.” I will rather boast most gladly of my weaknesses in order that the
power of Christ may dwell with me.</span></i><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> (2 Corinthians 12:9)<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"></span></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; letter-spacing: .25pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Taste and see the goodness of the Lord. </span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">(Psalms
34:9a</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Learn
from the way the wild flowers grow. They do not work or spin. But I tell you
that not even Solomon in all his splendor was clothed like one of them. If God
so clothes the grass of the field, which grows today and is thrown into the
oven tomorrow, will he not much more provide for you, O you of little faith?” </span></i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">(Matthew 6:28-30)</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Jesus, take the wheel.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">There’s a lot to worry about in this
world.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">What will the tests show about my
loved one’s fatigue?</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></li><li><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Will I get that job I so desperately,
desperately need?</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></li><li><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Will I have enough money to retire?</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></li><li><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Will my grandchildren get into the
colleges they so desire?</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></li><li><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Will traffic be bad again today?</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></li><li><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Will dinner turn out all right if I
use sweet Italian sausage instead of hot</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></li><li><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Will I ever be able to expand Farm
24 in Farm Town?</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Laugh if you will, but don’t your
worries range from the serious to the ridiculous? To me, that’s one of the
benefits of all those rosary beads—plenty of opportunities to offer up those
worries in prayer.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">It’s human nature to worry. We like
to have control. Or rather, we want to think we have control. But we focus on
the wrong things. We don’t have control over that loved one’s medical test
results. We do have some control over our reaction—and the compassion we show
in offering to help set the treatment plan. We don’t have control over colleges
accepting the grandkids. We do have control over showing delight if they are
successful—and helping them learn resilience if they are not.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">If we exercise the control, we <i>do
</i>have and show confidence in God for the rest, and we can be made great
where we are weak. We can show others what the power of Christ looks like when
we get out of the way.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">No worries.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Offer up your worries, one by one,
as you pray the rosary or Divine Mercy Chaplet. Then let them go for the day.<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
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credit is Malgorzata Tomczak via Pixabay, <a href="https://pixabay.com/photos/depression-sadness-man-2912424/">https://pixabay.com/photos/depression-sadness-man-2912424/</a></span></span></i>
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Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-35077573287098001582021-06-18T16:56:00.003-04:002021-06-18T16:56:55.405-04:00 Light the Darkness By Beth DeCristofaro<p class="MsoNormal"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Light the Darkness By Beth DeCristofaro</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Brothers
and sisters: Since many boast according to the flesh, I too will boast. To my
shame I say that we were too weak!</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(2 Corinthians 11:18)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">“The
lamp of the body is the eye. If your eye is sound, your whole body will be
filled with light; but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness.
And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
(Matthew 6:22-23)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">My
friend Jesus, too often I find myself distracted by the shiny, glittering
things about me in life: a lovely house, the coveted promotion, a seat at a
not-diverse table, comfortable and reliable food, water and A/C.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I genuinely do not want to experience the
sufferings of Paul, even if they are in your name.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>May your light show me that suffering happens
to us all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Open my eyes to your presence
above all else and bend my heart to you no matter where it leads me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In
today’s reading from Corinthians, Paul catalogs some of the trials he
experienced as he evangelized.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He did
this to respond to charges that he was inauthentic in his preaching.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And yet, he states he and the community were all
too weak despite enduring hardship and cruelty because there is no price too
high for following Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul’s
detractors, among other charges, claimed he was an ineffective preacher.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He points out that worldly goods, shallow
practices and personal ability, such as public speaking, do not necessarily
lead us to Jesus.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In fact, they might
derail us as we focus on the transient not the eternal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In
our Cursillo weekends, and hopefully, in our Group Reunions, we try to identify
the priorities (Jesus calls them “treasures”) of our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our walk with Jesus helps us to balance our
treasures better.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Perhaps the greatest
weakness we can strive for is that more profound relationship with Jesus, which
illuminates our soul. <i>The lamp of the body is the eye. </i>It is the beacon
of God’s light that indeed reveals where our treasure is.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It points the way to safe passage – a life of
loving God first and our neighbor as ourselves.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>And it shines to provide safe passage around the dangerous shoals of
transient, decadent “<i>treasures on earth</i>” (Matthew 6:19). Living out of
our greatest weakness will indeed look like foolishness when we drop the
trappings of a successful life (as defined by society) and with Christ live
with and love the poor, prisoners, blind, oppressed, and proclaim Jesus by his
light shining from us. (from Luke 4:18) </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">We
can’t love others if we are blinded by too much obstructing our line of vision.
Neither the threat of suffering nor the empty promise of success can keep Jesus
from enfolding us in his loving arms.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>What might be blocking you from seeing that light?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Pray
today for all those who cannot see the light.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pray extra for those who choose not to see Christ’s light, those who use
God as an excuse for hatred, bias, judgment of others.</span></p>
Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-31369934065478835132021-06-16T07:24:00.002-04:002021-06-16T07:24:49.841-04:00Your Father Who Sees What Is Hidden<p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Your Father Who Sees What Is Hidden</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061621.cfm">Wednesday of the
Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time</a></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Brothers and sisters, consider this: whoever
sows sparingly will also reap sparingly, and whoever sows bountifully will also
reap bountifully. Each must do as already determined, without sadness or
compulsion, for God loves a cheerful giver. Moreover, God is able to make every
grace abundant for you, so that in all things, always having all you need, you
may have an abundance for every good work.</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(2 Corinthians
9:6-8)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">“And your Father who sees what is
hidden will repay you.”</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Matthew 6:18)</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-variant: small-caps;">Piety</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OqplfPyT1As/YMndM4wDx0I/AAAAAAAAOgw/pye4ikZygv8ph4Kb_AD_wmPYRyVEYglNgCLcBGAsYHQ/s720/lit%2Bcandle.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="577" data-original-width="720" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-OqplfPyT1As/YMndM4wDx0I/AAAAAAAAOgw/pye4ikZygv8ph4Kb_AD_wmPYRyVEYglNgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h320/lit%2Bcandle.jpg" width="400" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>A candle as it diminishes explains,
'Gathering more and more is not the way. Burn, become light and heat and help.
Melt.</b>' (Rumi)</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-variant: small-caps;">Study</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">There
is a part of Mass which occurs only ONCE a year yet it is one of the most
moving experiences that many Catholics never experience.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6w4rF_3p7bU/YMneeej7j3I/AAAAAAAAOg4/YJZKvNtbDzwUYMzr9AGq1GCLqN6D4ZqcwCLcBGAsYHQ/s964/Copy-of-P1000492.jpg" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="964" data-original-width="964" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6w4rF_3p7bU/YMneeej7j3I/AAAAAAAAOg4/YJZKvNtbDzwUYMzr9AGq1GCLqN6D4ZqcwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Copy-of-P1000492.jpg" /></a></span></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">On
the Easter Vigil, Mass (yes that three-hour Mass) in our parish begins <br />outside the
church building in the dark of night.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The pastor lights a bonfire from which the new Pascal Candle for the next
Liturgical Year is lit from those flames. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Everyone
there to worship on this holy, silent, dark night gets a candle and lights it
off the Paschal candle (or from another candle which was lit by a candle lit
from the paschal candle). The deacon holding the candle, leads us into the darkened sanctuary to reveal Salvation History and teh fulfillment of the covenant.. <br /></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">That
old Youth Group song comes to life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
only takes a spark to get a fire going as we move from Lent and the Triduum to
Easter during that Mass. Not a single candle gets dimmer in sharing its light
with another candle. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Today’s
readings bring to mind that ceremony because we have life lessons in the letter
to Corinth and the Matthew's Good News. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our
faith asks us to sow seeds so that others might reap.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We also are not to do it in a proud
or boastful manner.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We do it quietly. As
encouraged in Proverbs 11:24-25: </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="po" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">One
person is lavish yet grows still richer;</span></i></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>
</i></span></div><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">another
is too sparing, yet is the poorer. </span></i></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>
</i></span></div><p class="po" id="24011025" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span id="bcv25"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Whoever confers benefits will be amply
enriched,</span></span></i></span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>
</i></span></div><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in 0in 0in 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"><i>and
whoever refreshes others will be refreshed.</i><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"><i> </i> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-variant: small-caps;">Action</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Much
attention is on charitable giving from Thanksgiving through New Year’s Day – holiday
giving and year-end (tax-deduction) gifts.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>But here in the middle of the year, needs continue. </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="poi" style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://mackenzie-scott.medium.com/seeding-by-ceding-ea6de642bf">MacKenzie
Scott</a> reminds us of some stark facts with her latest round of giving: </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">People
are struggling against inequities deserve center stage in stories about change
that they are creating. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Higher
education is a proven pathway to opportunity.</span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Discrimination
against ethnic and religious minorities has been deepening. </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Over
700 million people globally live in extreme poverty. </span></span></li></ul><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Where
can you give now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Let’s not wait until
the end of the year when we are trying to save on taxes.</span> <br /></span></p>Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-76847902466863562152021-06-15T06:44:00.000-04:002021-06-15T06:44:06.372-04:00 “God’s Love for Us Calls Forth Our Love for Others” by Colleen O’Sullivan<p style="margin: 0in;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061521.cfm">Tuesday of
the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time</a></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">We want you to know, brothers and sisters, of the
grace of God that has been given to the churches of Macedonia, for in a severe
test of affliction, the abundance of their joy and their profound poverty overflowed
in a wealth of generosity on their part. For you know the gracious act of our
Lord Jesus Christ, that for your sake he became poor although he was rich so
that by his poverty you might become rich. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(2 Corinthians 8:1-2, 9)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Praise the LORD, my soul!<br />
I will praise the LORD all my life;<br />
I will sing praise to my God while I live. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(Psalm 146:2)</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Jesus said to his disciples: “You have heard that
it was said, </span></i><em><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">you shall love your neighbor and
hate your enemy.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></em><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">But I say
to you, love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you, that you may be
children of your heavenly Father, for he makes his sun rise on the bad and the
good, and causes rain to fall on the just and the unjust.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For if you love those who love you, what
recompense will you have? </span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">(Matthew 5:43-46a)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #385623; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Give thanks
to the LORD, for he is good; his love endures forever.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Psalm 107:1, NIV)</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"></span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></b></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #385623; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Our readings today seem rather challenging.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul is asking the Corinthian Christians to send
a contribution to the embattled church in Jerusalem.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>To his way of thinking, this would constitute
not simply a charitable act but would also speak volumes about the bonds between
Christian churches.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The apostle mentions
in his letter that the Macedonian church, deep amid great affliction and overwhelming
poverty, has nevertheless managed to send a generous offering joyfully.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The
Macedonians have experienced the grace of God and, out of gratitude, have the
desire to help their struggling brothers and sisters in Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">I think Paul may have written in detail about the
sacrificial offering on the part of the Macedonian church partly because he was
encouraging the Corinthians to be equally generous.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. Paul also realizes that many of us then
and now seem to assume the “poor” don’t experience joy or happiness or have
much to give because “they” don’t possess wealth or all the material goods that
adorn others’ lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul shoots that
notion down.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And as a pastor in my younger
days, I sat at the bedsides of many people preparing to depart this life.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I honestly don’t remember a single one of
them talking about what they owned or didn’t own and how they would miss any of
it. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nearly all of them spoke of what
they were thankful for:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>the love bestowed
on them by God and the love shared with family and friends.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Never assume that the poor aren’t wealthy in
ways other than material goods. St. Teresa of Calcutta didn’t have two nickels
to rub together. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, what she did
possess in abundance was love for those about whom no one else cared.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>St. Mother Teresa was kind and caring toward
the sick and dying people she found on the streets. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She may have been a tiny person in stature,
but she broadcast a considerable message about love and the value of every human
life around the globe.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Paul points out that Jesus could have
considered being in heaven with his Father and the Holy Spirit a privilege, but,
out of love for you and me, he willingly came to earth as a needy newborn in an
obscure village in the Middle East.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Out
of his poverty among us came the riches of our salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">If the first reading doesn’t challenge us
enough, take a look at the Gospel reading, in which Jesus tells us to love our
enemies.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s difficult enough sometimes to get along
with family and friends, and now Jesus asks us to widen the circle of our love
to include people we think of as dubious characters in our life stories.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You know – the family member you haven’t
spoken to in years because of a ridiculous argument one Thanksgiving, the ex-friend
who voted for the “other” party’s candidate, your transgender child, etc.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What if God hated all the enemies of the
Kingdom?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Remember, that includes you and
me every time we sin and turn our backs on the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>No, Jesus isn’t asking us to do anything that
he and the other persons of the Trinity don’t do.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Fortunately for us, we are loved by God –
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit every minute of every day.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Today’s psalm sums up the reason for our
gratitude by laying out all that God has done for us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God created everything we see about us -
heaven and earth, the seas, and all they contain.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God seeks justice for those treated unjustly,
feeds the hungry, sets prisoners free, gives sight to the blind, and raises those
overwhelmed by their burdens.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God loves
those who act with justice and protects those who find themselves in alien
territory.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">It’s not a bad thing for God to challenge our
thinking about giving and poverty.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Great
things can spring up from practically nothing, whether an offering to help a
suffering sister church or a Savior who rescues us from our sinfulness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The small in this world can still do great
things.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Nor is it
unreasonable for God to ask us to love our enemies because God loves us even on
our worst days as disciples.</span><span style="color: #7030a0; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #385623; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">today’s
Scripture passages so much ground that you could pick just one thing out of all
of it:</span></p>
<ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Giving when
we have very little ourselves, </span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Gratitude for
all God has done for us and given us, or </span></li><li><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">The challenge
to love those we regard as our enemies.</span></li></ul>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Spend your
prayer time talking to the Lord about what that means to you.</span></p>
Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-51981646783764962952021-06-13T21:08:00.003-04:002021-06-13T21:08:47.305-04:00“Do Not Turn Your Back on One Who Borrows” by Rev. Paul Berghout<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Do Not Turn
Your Back on One Who Borrows” by Rev. Paul Berghout</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061421.cfm">Monday of the Eleventh
Week in Ordinary Time</a></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We are
treated as deceivers and yet are truthful; as
unrecognized and yet acknowledged; as dying and
behold we live; as chastised
and yet not put to death; as sorrowful
yet always rejoicing; as poor yet
enriching many; as having
nothing and yet possessing all things.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> 2 Corinthians 6:8B-10</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“If anyone
wants to go to law with you over your tunic, hand him your cloak as well.
Should anyone press you into service for one mile, go with him for two miles.
Give to the one who asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to
borrow.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">
Matthew 5:40-42</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Sunday started
us into the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time, when Jesus compared our faith to
the mustard seed. Like that tiny seed, our faith can grow large and put forth
large branches, affecting those who we may not even know we have touched.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Throughout
the week, the Gospels continue looking through the lens of the Sermon on the
Mount from Matthew.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The readings take us
deeper and deeper into the counter-cultural message and analogies like the mustard
seed that must have left the listeners in ancient Palestine wandering away, wondering
away. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In revealing
his new and more profound way, Jesus shares a most seemingly in-congruent law, “Offer
no resistance to one who is evil.” And, he tells us to “Give to the one who
asks of you, and do not turn your back on one who wants to borrow.”</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Working in
harmony with the processes of life in co-operation with God is how the Kingdom
of God works, Jesus says.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That may be why
we hear about practices that challenge the traditions and knowledge of his day.
</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The case of salvaging
an old derelict ship from the bottom of the sea illustrates these methods Jesus
used.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In one of
the tidal rivers near New York, the building of a bridge was interrupted by a
derelict sunk in the river’s bottom.</span></i></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Divers put
chains about the obstacle, and all day long, the engineer directed the
maneuvering of tugs as they puffed and pulled in a vain endeavor to dislodge
the hulk.</span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Then a young
student, fresh from the technical school, asked for the privilege of trying,
and from the vexed, impatient chief obtained his wish.</span></i></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“What will
you do with it?” the engineer inquired. “The flatboats in which we brought the
granite from Vermont,” the young man answered. So, when the tide was out, the
flatboats were fastened to the derelict. The Atlantic began to come in; its
mighty shoulders underneath the boats lifted until the wreckage had to come.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The youth
had harnessed infinite energy to his task.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5x7_4px2HIY/YMarqMINMsI/AAAAAAAAOgc/wljOcVXf_v8LTb1kfJOCNlCYTH_apP7YACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/canary-islands-91013_960_720.jpg" width="320" /></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">To the
consciousness of such a spiritual resource, Christ has introduced to his
people.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Growth can
only occur if we respond to God’s grace through constant acts of love, acts of
kindness that become ever more frequent, intense, generous, tender, and
cheerful. Husbands and wives “become conscious of their unity and experience it
more deeply from day to day” (Gaudium et Spes, 48).</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">High tides
occur 12 hours and 25 minutes apart, and it starts small, but small is mighty.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus is
saying, “If you only had the littlest bit of what you’re asking for, if you had
no more than the tiniest amount of it, it would be achievable. [Sunukjian,
Donald R. Source: The Journal of the Evangelical Homiletics Society, 8 no 1 Mar
2008, p 120-134.]</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But you have
to use and speak your faith because the only way to increase our faith is by
using the faith we already have. The little bit of faith you have is enough for
you to do what I’ve called you to do, says God.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">If it isn’t small,
don’t start at all.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s hard for an 8th
grader to know which mustard seed is their life’s mission because they don’t
have the experience yet.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">However, if
they honor their parents and show up and try at school, they will know. Family
life leads to mission. Mary and Joseph let her Son go, allowing him to live and
complete his mission.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The more
everyone in the family focuses on God’s call for one another; the family
becomes more loving and peaceful.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">On the
negative side, little things matter as well. Just the slightest prick from a
box jellyfish – often invisible to the eye – is enough to kill a big man.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">A seemingly
insignificant decision.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In the Old
Testament Book, the Song of Songs 2:15, King Solomon noted that it is “the
little foxes that destroy the vines.”</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Many of the
ordinary, mundane decisions that we make every day seem to have nothing at all
to do with falling into sin and thus moving you away from your mustard seed
faith and mission, but they can: one small step at a time.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Watch for
“red flag” thinking: thoughts like “I have to . . .” (do something, go
somewhere, see someone) or “I can handle . . .” (a specific high-risk
situation).</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The decision
could involve any aspect of your life, such as your job, recreational
activities, friends, or family.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We heard
about a shelter for birds twice in our readings Sunday. First, in Ezekiel, we heard
that birds dwell beneath the branches of the tiny shoots that grow from the mighty
cedar.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In our
Gospel: “Large branches, so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.”
(Mark 4:32). The multitudes of the outcasts and neglected in Israel, including
the Gentiles, hear the call of faith and salvation.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It refers to what the rabbis speak of as
“under the wings of God’s “dwelling” and denotes the dwelling of the divine
presence of God. Providing a blessing done in faith for others is the goal.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em; text-align: center;"><img border="0" data-original-height="685" data-original-width="960" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-SWl_mymE9Tg/YMar0y7uQzI/AAAAAAAAOgg/i0DTJ9bw71MfYEIuJOZruLqub6jNKIkKgCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/nature-4265085_960_720.jpg" width="320" /></div><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In a Jewish
context, “sprout” or “twig” has a messianic nuance because, in several places
in the Old Testament, the Messiah is called the sprout of David.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">God will
bring the exiles home, undoing all the damage, and that “tender shoot” will
grow to be a large Cedar tree and be a place for birds seeking shade.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Repair the
wreckage of the past and rebuild our lives together, cooperating with God,
using our mustard seed faith. Amen.</span></p>
Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-74255503827062701142021-06-13T09:19:00.005-04:002021-06-13T09:19:46.853-04:00“Man Knows Not How, but God Knows All” by Sam Miller <p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QJdnU78adtM/YMYEc6fC83I/AAAAAAAAOf0/UNbl2yULqD0jfhdSu2TsVc4vnnTMM5d7QCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/seedlings-4183249_960_720.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="637" data-original-width="960" height="265" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QJdnU78adtM/YMYEc6fC83I/AAAAAAAAOf0/UNbl2yULqD0jfhdSu2TsVc4vnnTMM5d7QCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h265/seedlings-4183249_960_720.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Man Knows
Not How, but God Knows All” by Sam Miller<span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061321.cfm"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Eleventh
Sunday in Ordinary Time</span></a></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Thus says
the Lord GOD: I, too, will take from the crest of the cedar, from its topmost
branches tear off a tender shoot, and plant it on a high and lofty mountain; on
the mountain heights of Israel, I will plant it. It shall put forth branches
and bear fruit and become a majestic cedar. Birds of every kind shall dwell
beneath it, every winged thing in the shade of its boughs. And all the trees of
the field shall know that I, the LORD, bring low the high tree, lift high the
lowly tree, wither up the green tree, and make the withered tree bloom. As I,
the LORD, have spoken, so will I do.</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Ezekiel 17:22-24)</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">For we walk
by faith, not by sight. Therefore, we aspire to please him, whether we are at
home or away, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ. When
we do, each of us shall receive compensation, according to what he did in the
body, whether good or evil. (2 Corinthians 5:7,9-10)</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Jesus said
to the crowds: “This is how it is with the kingdom of God; it is as if a man
were to scatter seed on the land and would sleep and rise night and day and
through it all the seed would sprout and grow, he knows not how. Of its own
accord, the land yields fruit, first the blade, then the ear, then the full
grain in the ear. And when the grain is ripe, he wields the sickle at once, for
the harvest has come.” He said, “To what shall we compare the kingdom of God,
or what parable can we use for it? It is like a mustard seed, the smallest of
all the seeds on the earth. When it is sown in the ground. But once it is sown,
it springs up and becomes the largest of plants and puts forth large branches
so that the birds of the sky can dwell in its shade.</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> (Mark
4:26-32)</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Piety</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><i>We Walk by
Faith, and Not by Sight</i> (Author: Henry Alford, 1844) </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We walk by
faith, and not by sight;<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">no gracious
words we hear</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">from one who
spoke as none e’er spoke,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">but we
believe him near.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We may not
touch his hands and side,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">nor follow
where he trod,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">yet in his
promise we rejoice,<span style="mso-tab-count: 1;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and cry, “My
Lord and God!”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Help then, O
Lord, our unbelief,</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and may our
faith abound</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">to call on
you when you are near,</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">and seek
where you are found:</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">That when
our life of faith is done,</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in realms of
clearer light</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">we may
behold you as you are</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">in full and
endless sight</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">We walk by
faith, and not by sight;</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">no gracious
words we hear</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">from one who
spoke as none e’er spoke,</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">but we
believe him near.</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Study</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">What’s this
“too” business? It turns out that Ezekiel 17 is “The Eagles and the Vine.” At
the beginning of the chapter, an eagle started with a cedar crest and wound up
with a VINE! In our first reading, verses 22-24, God also takes a tender shoot
from the cedar crest and becomes a “majestic cedar”! I had to refer to the
footnotes on verses 22–23: “The Lord will undo the actions of the Babylonian
king by rebuilding the Davidic dynasty so the nations realize that only
Israel’s God can restore a people’s destiny.” to try to understand the passage.
God is planting the Tree of Life anew for Israel and us!</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">The NAB
footnote to today’s Psalm 92 verse explains: </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Planted:
the just are likened to trees growing in the sacred precincts of the Temple,
which is often seen as the source of life and fertility because of God’s
presence.” </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">God knows
and has seen all!</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">In Mark’s Gospel,
footnotes to 26, 27, and 29 reveals: “Only Mark records the parable of the
seed’s growth. The sower and harvester are the same. The emphasis is on the
power of the seed to grow itself without human intervention. Thus, the kingdom
of God initiated by Jesus in proclaiming the word develops quietly yet powerfully
until he fully establishes it at the final judgment.” Then there’s the parable
about the mustard seed, the tiniest of sources, that becomes a massive bush!! Vine?
Bush? Tree? It’s all beyond me!! We are so grateful that God blesses us with
the ability to know Him. God brings everything into His order, thankfully, with
NO help from “human intervention.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">But, wait,
that’s not even the best part!! During this week, St Francis of </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><br />Assisi’s Friar
George, of friarmusings, has written five “musings” on these Scripture readings,
and I haven’t included any of the great thoughts from them! Please, Google
friarmusings (</span><a href="https://friarmusings.com"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">https://friarmusings.com</span></a><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">) and
lookup: </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><ul style="text-align: left;"><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“A Sunday of
Parables,” 7 June; </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Parables of
Growth,” 8 June; </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The Seed
that Grows Itself,” 9 June; </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“The Mustard
Seed,” 10 June; and </span></span></li><li><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">“Parables:
Final Thoughts,” 11 June!</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></li></ul><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: right;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-700L2rew9aM/YMYFw5FdQWI/AAAAAAAAOgQ/EJcI-cHBLe0EqfWfbZHJGF3MPwsMYuA3ACLcBGAsYHQ/s1920/dandelion-1557110_1920-b.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1920" data-original-width="1732" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-700L2rew9aM/YMYFw5FdQWI/AAAAAAAAOgQ/EJcI-cHBLe0EqfWfbZHJGF3MPwsMYuA3ACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/dandelion-1557110_1920-b.jpg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The Word of God is like a Seed<br /></td></tr></tbody></table><br />I
particularly liked the last paragraph from the 7th… “another great minister of</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> the reign of God has offered us his balanced perspective concerning his
respective role in God’s great plan. Pope John XXIII, who initiated the process
of putting the church in touch with the twentieth century, once said, “The
feelings of my smallness and my nothingness have always kept me good company.”
After John XXIII called for a Second Vatican Council, the enormity of the task
at hand began to weigh upon him and rob him of sleep. So many people, so many
issues, so many concerns, so much work to be done. Peace and restful nights
finally came to the pontiff when he admitted, “Listen, Lord, this church is
yours, not mine. I’m going to sleep.”</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Action</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Father, that
I may more closely “walk by faith and not by light” that the word sown by
Christ grows into whatever plant that best suits Your plan for me!!</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;"> </span></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">Amen! </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-size: 12.0pt;">De Colores!!</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
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Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-38937379168947756992021-06-11T22:32:00.002-04:002021-06-11T22:32:42.460-04:00 “A New Creation” by Melanie Rigney <p class="BodyTextNoIndent"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RiRt_lkNpTM/YMQcpl1jFII/AAAAAAAAOfY/UouBjADkqqIc_N7R-p--UAPKarWr8rHjACLcBGAsYHQ/s640/tripod_manclouds_pixabay_060521%255B982%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="360" data-original-width="640" height="225" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-RiRt_lkNpTM/YMQcpl1jFII/AAAAAAAAOfY/UouBjADkqqIc_N7R-p--UAPKarWr8rHjACLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h225/tripod_manclouds_pixabay_060521%255B982%255D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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Creation” by Melanie Rigney</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span><p></p><p class="MsoNormal"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061221.cfm"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Memorial of
the Immaculate Heart of Mary</span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">So,
whoever is in Christ is a new creation: the old things have passed away;
behold, new things have come.</span></i><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> (2 Corinthians 5:17)<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; letter-spacing: .25pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The Lord is kind and merciful. </span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">(Psalms
103:8a</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">)</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Why were
you looking for me? Did you not know that I must be in my Father’s house?” </span></i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">(Luke 2:49)</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Lord, show us Your kindness and
mercy always.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">In my world, June 12 has always been
my maternal grandparents’ wedding anniversary. (“A pretty double wedding,” the
local newspaper called the 1924 ceremony my grandparents shared with one of her
sisters and her groom.) By all accounts, it was a happy marriage, though my
grandfather died too young before I was born.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Then a few years ago, it became the
wedding day for a good friend. There’s a lot of joy in that marriage as well,
including two adorable tow-headed kiddos.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">But from today forward, June 12 in
my world also will be the day that a special friend’s husband was laid to rest.
He was about my grandfather’s age when he died earlier this month, and my friend
is a far too young widow, just like my grandmother was.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Each of those marriages resulted and
continues to result in new creations, changes in the men and women as they grew
in love; the births of children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren; and
the sorrows as people were buried. They are and were blessings, visible
witnesses of God’s goodness.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">But while God’s goodness is always
there, things in this world change, and that’s hard. It’s seldom harder than
when someone we love dearly is taken from us. Regardless of how long it’s been,
the hurt is deep and intense when we hear that song and the only person who
knew the inside story or joke isn’t there to share it, or when no one is left
who remembers what we looked like on the first day of kindergarten.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">With every loss, we lose something
of ourselves. But if we invite the Lord in to share—not fill, for it can never
be filled—that pain, we can endure it. We, too, become new creations. With a
teary smile, we trust that he or she is in the Almighty’s house. And we pray
that we live in a manner pleasing to the Lord so that we too may one day live
there.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Spend time listening to the stories
of someone who’s experienced a life-changing loss.<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p><div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><hr align="left" size="1" width="33%" />
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from Pixabay, <a href="https://pixabay.com/illustrations/man-stairs-heaven-old-man-stairway-5640540/">https://pixabay.com/illustrations/man-stairs-heaven-old-man-stairway-5640540/</a></span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 9.0pt;"></span></i></p>
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Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-47937155548722571782021-06-11T08:59:00.002-04:002021-06-11T08:59:46.205-04:00Poured Out with Bands of Love By Beth DeCristofaro<p class="MsoNormal"> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Poured Out with Bands of Love By Beth DeCristofaro</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/061121.cfm"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Solemnity
of Most Sacred Heart of Jesus</span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">it
was I who taught Ephraim to walk,<br />
who took them in my arms;<br />
I drew them with human cords,<br />
with bands of love;<br />
I fostered them like one<br />
who raises an infant to his cheeks </span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Hosea
11:4-5)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">that
(the Father) may grant you in accord with the riches of his glory to be
strengthened with power through his Spirit in the inner self,<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>and that Christ may dwell in your hearts
through faith; that you, rooted and grounded in love, may have strength to
comprehend with all the holy ones what is the breadth and length and height and
depth, and to know the love of Christ which surpasses knowledge, so that you
may be filled with all the fullness of God.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Ephesians 3:16-19) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">But
when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break
his legs, but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and
immediately blood and water flowed out.</span></i> <i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">An eyewitness has
testified, and his testimony is true; he knows that he is speaking the
truth, so that you also may come to believe.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
(John 19:33-35)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">May
I accept your yoke which is light, Lord Jesus, and pour myself out for others
to your glory.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">In John’s Gospel, blood and water flowed from Jesus’
side on the cross, not only proving to the authorities and us today that Jesus
was dead but also harkened back to theological teachings.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus spoke about joining the Kingdom by being
born of the Spirit and water, a reference to Baptism.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And Jesus told his disciples at the Last
Supper that by eating his body and drinking his blood at <i>Whoever eats my
flesh and drinks my blood lives in me and I in him</i>, (John 6:56) </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fr
Ed Foley said in a homily at Old St. Patrick’s Church, Chicago, “Every time we
go to Communion, the Bread says to us ‘You be Jesus’.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But the Cup says something different. No
place in our theology have we ever been told to be the Blood of Christ. As one
great French Theologian has taught, the bread teaches us what we are to be, the
cup teaches us how we become the Body of Christ by pouring ourselves out in
sacrifice; by pouring ourselves out in the small and the big projects, in the
little things of our lives and the big things in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Stepping aside so that somebody else can
flourish. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The cup was significant
because for Jesus it made suffering salvific. And it allows us to remember that
the only way we become the Body of Christ is by accepting that kind of salvific
living in our lives. <a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Fr.
Foley went on to remind us that Eucharist fulfills our spiritual hunger for
eternal food and God’s love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But partaking
in Eucharist, particularly the Blood, commissions us to feed and provide drink
to others.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this way, we are seen as
the living Body of Christ. We blaze God’s glory even in our most menial tasks,
done in love, to a world starving and thirsting for bands of love from a most
merciful God.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #2f5496; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent1; mso-themeshade: 191;">Action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Our
Baptism adopted us into the Body of Christ and obliged us to be good neighbors.
Give thanks for the opportunities to shine God’s love today by pouring
ourselves out in love to fill a need.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Calibri",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-ascii-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin; mso-hansi-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> <a href="https://livestream.com/oldstpats/events/9038563/videos/221968236">https://livestream.com/oldstpats/events/9038563/videos/221968236</a>
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Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-73271404506224642662021-06-09T06:48:00.000-04:002021-06-09T06:48:28.101-04:00Until Heaven and Earth Pass Away<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4gcIFI4tboc/YMCb1d7VxUI/AAAAAAAAOfI/s4XwaRrYHSM9fWYPfd4WszYcfdlwqaJgQCLcBGAsYHQ/s960/youth-3709884_960_720.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="642" data-original-width="960" height="268" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-4gcIFI4tboc/YMCb1d7VxUI/AAAAAAAAOfI/s4XwaRrYHSM9fWYPfd4WszYcfdlwqaJgQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h268/youth-3709884_960_720.jpg" width="400" /></a></div>Until Heaven and Earth Pass Away<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060921.cfm">Wednesday of the Tenth
Week in Ordinary Time</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Indeed, what was endowed with glory
has come to have no glory in this respect because of the glory that surpasses
it. For if what was going to fade was glorious, how much more will what endures
be glorious.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> 2
Corinthians 3:10-11</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Do not think that I have come to
abolish the law or the prophets. I have come not to abolish but to fulfill.
Amen, I say to you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter
or the smallest part of a letter will pass from the law until all things have
taken place.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> Matthew
5:17-18</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Piety<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">We are the salt of the earth. Father,
if that salt loses its taste, with what can it be seasoned? It is no longer
good for anything but to be thrown out and trampled underfoot. Preserve us so
we can flavor your world with the presence of our service to your love.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> Matthew 5:13-14</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;">Study<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Sometimes it is very tempting to take
Jesus at his literal word. Today’s Gospel from Matthew shows why that is
dangerous if we seek to truly hear and understand the meaning of what Jesus was
saying.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">The literalist might hear this chapter
and think that Jesus is here to fulfill every last paragraph, clause, and
sentence of Mosaic law. However, the notes in the NAB for this chapter point
out the following:</span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0px 0px 0px 40px; padding: 0px; text-align: left;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Yet the “passing away” of heaven and
earth is not necessarily the end of the world understood, as in much
apocalyptic literature, as the dissolution of the existing universe. The “turning
of the ages” comes with the apocalyptic event of Jesus’ death and resurrection.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The Gospel addressed those listening with these
words: You live in the new and final age, prophesied by Isaiah as the time of “new
heavens and a new earth” (Isaiah 65:17; 66:22). </span></i></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">During Jesus’ ministry, the kingdom is
already breaking in.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>However, his mission
remains within the framework of Mosaic Law. However, Jesus’ words and works also
significantly anticipate the age to come, as the following antitheses (Matthew
5:21-48) show.</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Jesus is about to launch into a series
of points that show his interpretation of Mosaic law was markedly different
then what people heard at the time. Jesus’ different conclusions stretch his
followers to be more merciful and perfect (like the Father) than they have been
up to this point.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">What Jesus is fulfilling is not a
promise from the past but a vision for the future.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus takes serious violations like murder
and uses them as an example. Many people listening would conclude that they
could and would never resort to violence or murder. However, Jesus sets a more
challenging and higher bar for us to ignore and says you cannot even be angry
with another sister or brother. “Be first reconciled.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Jesus takes adultery next. In his
audience, many men would conclude that they could and would never cheat on
their wives. Again, Jesus sets the bar higher for us and says you don’t have to
commit the “act,” but you can sin just by looking upon women with lust (a la
Jimmy Carter’s famous confession in a Playboy Interview back in 1976). At the
time, former President Carter said:</span></p>
<blockquote style="border: none; margin: 0 0 0 40px; padding: 0px;"><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; text-align: left;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Because I’m just human, and I’m
tempted, Christ set some almost impossible standards for us. The Bible says, “Thou
shalt not commit adultery.” Christ said I tell you that anyone who looks on a
woman with lust has in his heart already committed adultery. I’ve looked on a
lot of women with lust. I’ve committed adultery in my heart many times. This is
something that God recognizes that I will do and have done, and God forgives me
for it.</span></i></p></blockquote>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">President Carter concludes that one
ought not be condescending or proud because of the relative degree of
sinfulness. Some other trap may await you. Be careful shining your lamp like a
city on a hillside. Someone may come along and quench your fire before you even
spread the light.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-themecolor: accent6; mso-themeshade: 191;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aAH4VXVk1CQ/YMCcT_TxkiI/AAAAAAAAOfQ/PsEQI_jE7_oxNWj3apXJYXkEga1jxLDNwCLcBGAsYHQ/s1280/high-jump-150517_1280.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="895" data-original-width="1280" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-aAH4VXVk1CQ/YMCcT_TxkiI/AAAAAAAAOfQ/PsEQI_jE7_oxNWj3apXJYXkEga1jxLDNwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/high-jump-150517_1280.jpg" width="320" /></a></b></div><b><br />Action<o:p></o:p></b><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Jesus is leading up to his famous
conclusion to this chapter: “So be perfect, (or merciful) just as your heavenly
Father is perfect.” Emulating the Father is the standard.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Today, when so many of us are trying
to follow the famous by wearing the right Apple Watch, driving the right car,
or living in the right neighborhood, Jesus says not to bother with those kinds
of things. Instead, copy God, not Elon Musk or Jeff Bezos or Bill Gates.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Matthew 5 is like the high jump in a
track meet. We may not break our personal best on the first attempt. However,
if we gradually raise the bar on our behavior, we may eventually stretch
ourselves to set a new personal record.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-75493660391109610592021-06-07T16:43:00.002-04:002021-06-07T16:43:26.901-04:00“Salt and Light” by Colleen O’Sullivan<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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<![endif]--><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“Salt and Light” by Colleen O’Sullivan</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060821.cfm">Tuesday of
the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time</a></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Brothers and sisters:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>As God is faithful, our word to you is not
“yes” and “no.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For the Son of God, Jesus
Christ, who was proclaimed to you by us, Silvanus and Timothy and me, was not
“yes” and “no,” but “yes” has been in him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>For however many are the promises of God, their Yes is in him; therefore,
the Amen from us also goes through him to God for glory. (2 Corinthians 1:18-20)</span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Lord, let your face shine on me. (R.)<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The revelation of your words sheds light, gives
understanding to the simple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Psalm
119:130)</span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> </span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Jesus said to his disciples: “You are the salt of
the earth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But if salt loses its taste,
with what can it be seasoned? <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are
the light of the world. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your light must
shine before others, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your heavenly
Father.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>(Matthew 5:13ab, 14a, 16)</span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #2a411b; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Piety</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Christ, be our light! </span></i><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></i><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Shine in our hearts</span></i><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></i><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Shine through the darkness! </span></i><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></i><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Christ, be our light! </span></i><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br />
</span></i><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-style: normal; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Shine in your church gathered today</span></i><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;">.</span></i></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Christ Be
Our Light</span></i><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-style: normal;">, Bernadette Farrell</span></i>
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #2a411b; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Study</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Paul has
evidently upset the Christians in Corinth.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He had told them he would visit them on his way to Macedonia and then
again on his way back.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But there were
unanticipated troubles on this journey, and he, Silvanus, and Timothy were
unable to do so.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The people in Corinth were disappointed and
perhaps a bit angry, as witnessed by their claim that Paul and his friends were
“Yes “and “No” people – yes, we will come, but no, actually they didn’t.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Paul writes to the Corinthians of their
struggles in Asia, where they had feared for their very lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">He takes the
opportunity to talk of the promises of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>If God promises something, you can depend on God’s word.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s “Yes” never changes. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And just as God is never two-faced, Paul says
neither is he nor are his companions in the faith.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">God says yes
to all of us by creating us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God forms
us in love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>That love is
unconditional.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God engraves each of our
names on His Holy palm.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We are never
forgotten or forsaken.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God’s love for us
is so great that he sacrifices his only Son for our sake.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">In today’s
Gospel, we see what God hopes our response to this love will be.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God desires that we will lead others to the
Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In today’s reading, Jesus has just
finished sharing the Beatitudes.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now, he
tells everyone, be salt for the world.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Jesus also says we are the light of the world, so we should let others
see that we do not hide that light under a basket.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">We take salt for
granted today. Every home has a salt shaker, and pre-COVID, every table in
every restaurant had one for their guests.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>We use salt to preserve foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It
also has healing properties.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>For example,
soaking in saltwater is a means of healing some wounds.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Salt also adds flavor to otherwise bland foods.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When Jesus
calls believers the salt of the earth, he means for us to preserve what is
good, to bring healing to others, and to flavor all the world with our faith in
the Risen Lord.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Jesus also calls
us to let our light shine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Illuminate
the darkest corners of the world with God’s love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Help the lost see the path to the One who created
them in love.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Allow the light of our
good deeds and our faith to shine forth and beckon others to join us on our Christian
journey.</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #2a411b; font-variant: small-caps;">Action</span></b></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Considering what
salt can do, when has someone in the faith been the salt of the earth in your
life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>When did you see someone preserving
something good about our faith in Christ or being a healing presence in your
life?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Beyond that, when has someone of
the faith enhanced the flavor of your spiritual life?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Could you name
someone who’s brightened the darker corners of your life with the light of the
Lord?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Has someone shone a light on your
walk of faith?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Do you know anyone whose
good deeds in the Lord’s name have made a difference in your life?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Be grateful
for both the salt of the earth in our midst and those whose lights shine
brightly.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>And take a moment to ask
yourself what you could do today to be any of those things to someone else?</span></span></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">
</span>Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-43000758926240512342021-06-06T08:41:00.002-04:002021-06-06T08:41:21.840-04:00“Being in the Presence of God” by Wayne Miller<p><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ePn_aG_fugs/YLzCV272QQI/AAAAAAAAOew/zRX3cchjK7Ig1EAFSj-fenyVoHiVy_uEQCLcBGAsYHQ/s808/Behold-the-Lamb-of-God-Corpus-Christi_v2.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="394" data-original-width="808" height="195" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-ePn_aG_fugs/YLzCV272QQI/AAAAAAAAOew/zRX3cchjK7Ig1EAFSj-fenyVoHiVy_uEQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h195/Behold-the-Lamb-of-God-Corpus-Christi_v2.png" width="400" /></a></div><br />“Being in the Presence of God” by
Wayne Miller<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060621.cfm">The Solemnity of the
Most Holy Body and Blood of Christ</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Moses took half of the blood and put
it in large bowls; the other half he <i>splashed on the altar. Taking the book
of the covenant, he read it aloud to the people, who answered, "All that
the LORD has said, we will heed and do." Then he took the blood and
sprinkled it on the people, saying, "This is the blood of the covenant
that the LORD has made with you in accordance with all these words of
his."</i> (Exodus 24:6-8)</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">(Jesus) entered once for all into the
sanctuary, not with the blood of goats and calves but with his own blood, for
this reason he is mediator of a new covenant: since a death has taken place for
deliverance from transgressions under the first covenant, those who are called
may receive the promised eternal inheritance.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> (Hebrews 9:12-15)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">I am the living bread that came down
from heaven, says the Lord; whoever eats this bread will live forever.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> (John 6:51)</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">While they were eating, he took bread,
said the blessing, broke it, gave it to them, and said, "Take it; this is
my body." Then he took a cup, gave thanks, and gave it to them, and they
all drank from it. He said to them, "This is my blood of the covenant,
which will be shed for many.”</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">
(Mark 14:22-24)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Father God, thank you for always being
with us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Give us Your eyes to see, your
ears to hear, your heart to feel, and Your voice to speak Your Love to all our
brothers and sisters.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">For millennia, we humans have depended
on blood sacrifice for retribution and reparation of transgressions. We offered
our children’s blood or our most prized animals’ blood, hoping that it would be
proof to God of our need and worthiness to be in a relationship with Him, to be
loved and protected by Him. And then God turned the tables and gave us Jesus’
Body and Blood as His visceral, everlasting covenant that He forever will be in
relationship with us. He wants us to know that He is always within us, calling
outward to and through us to His Creation. And He knew that we fallible,
distractable humans would need a constant, physical reminder of who He is and
where He lives – within us. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Friar Richard Rohr tells us:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“The Presence of God is infinite,
everywhere, always, and forever. You cannot not be in the Presence of God.
There’s no other place to be. It is we who are not present to Presence.</span></p><div style="margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;">
</div><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">We live in a time with more readily
available obstacles to Presence than any other period in history. We carry our
blocks in our pockets now, vibrating and notifying and emoji-ing us about
everything and nothing.</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">We have to find a way to experience
our experiences more deeply. Otherwise, we’re just on cruise control, and we go
through our whole life not knowing what’s happening. Whether we realize it or
not, the divine energy of God is flowing through each one of us. When we draw
upon this Source consciously, our life starts filling with what some call
coincidences or synchronicities, which we can never explain. This has nothing
to do with being perfect, highly moral, or formally religious. I wish someone
had told me that when I was young. I would still have been religious, but now
in a whole different way—and all the time.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Another favorite theologian of mine
says:</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-left: 40px; text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“We should think of prayer as the
breath in our lungs and the blood from our hearts. Our blood flows and our
breathing continue “without ceasing”; we are not even conscious of it, but it
never stops. And we are not always conscious of Jesus keeping us in perfect
oneness with God, but if we are obeying Him, He always is.”<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-font-size: 11.0pt; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">In addition to praying without
ceasing, the exquisite wisdom of our Catholic faith is the blessing of the
Eucharist, where God allows us to invite the Almighty, in the Body and Blood of
Jesus, to merge with our body and blood viscerally. Our “Amen,” when offered
“The Body & Blood of Christ,” is not a ritual recollection of our
salvation. It acknowledges the reality of physical, spiritual, and emotional
bonding and nourishment with our Lord and Savior. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">With all the distractions pulling at
our attention and intention for the relationship with God, the precious gift of
a pure Eucharistic relationship with God is our lifeline, drawing us back again
and again into His Loving Presence. Inspired by prayer and scripture and
empowered by His physical Presence in us, we can go out into the world and be
His messengers.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Jesus’ simple Ascension commission
was: “GO!” and “DO!”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“GO!” If you are not in motion, God
cannot guide you. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“DO!” The Father gave you perfect
Love, Acceptance, and Forgiveness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now
express that Love to all you meet through the precious, unique God-given gifts
bestowed upon you. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">To which town or city or neighbor or
family member or stranger shall I GO?</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">What will I DO when I meet them?</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Do I know and rejoice in the precious
indwelling of the Triune God?</span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">How will I share God’s Presence with
my brothers and sisters <br /></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">De Colores!</span></p>
<div style="mso-element: endnote-list;"><br clear="all" />
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><i><span style="font-size: x-small;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="#_ednref1" name="_edn1" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="line-height: 107%;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a> My Utmost for His Highest
© 1992 by Oswald Chambers</span></span></i></p>
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Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-43418371190294893372021-06-05T08:57:00.000-04:002021-06-05T08:57:11.132-04:00“Honor and Proclaim God’s Deeds” by Melanie Rigney<p class="BodyTextNoIndent"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QwygKvqfsO8/YLt0Zp4rlEI/AAAAAAAAOek/vjdCDIhJ8-8AJFxhQ1gDsjSEiAxHjUAPgCLcBGAsYHQ/s640/tripod0605_winner_pixabaypublicdomain%255B899%255D.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="426" data-original-width="640" height="266" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-QwygKvqfsO8/YLt0Zp4rlEI/AAAAAAAAOek/vjdCDIhJ8-8AJFxhQ1gDsjSEiAxHjUAPgCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h266/tripod0605_winner_pixabaypublicdomain%255B899%255D.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br />“Honor
and Proclaim God’s Deeds” by Melanie Rigney<p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060521.cfm"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Memorial of Saint Boniface, Bishop and Martyr</span></a></span><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Honor
and proclaim God’s deeds, and do not be slack in praising him. A king’s secret
it is prudent to keep, but the works of God are to be declared and made known.”
</span></i><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">(Tobit 12:6-7)<span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"></span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="border: none windowtext 1.0pt; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;"></span></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; letter-spacing: .25pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Blessed be God, who lives forever. </span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">(Tobit
13:1b</span></span><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">)</span>
</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Amen, I
say to you, this poor widow put in more than all the other contributors to the
treasury. For they have all contributed from their surplus wealth, but she,
from her poverty, has contributed all she had, her whole livelihood.” </span></i><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">(Mark 12:43-44)</span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> <br /></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Lord, may I praise You always—but
most particularly when I privately believe You are more generous to others than
to me.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">You see it sometimes on awards shows
and at sports championships:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The winner –
before thanking Mom and Dad and spouses – says, “I’d like to thank my Lord and
Savior, Jesus Christ.” And maybe you think it’s just words, just a throwaway
line, gratuitous maybe even. Does Jesus really care who wins the World Series
or the Best Director or Pulitzer Prize? If we’re all loved equally, is such a
public statement a bit arrogant, a bit presumptuous?</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">I’d rather think that in that moment
of exhilaration is a moment of humility and a moment of gratitude. I’d like to
think the person is thanking God not for winning right then, but for the gift
of skill and talent, the gift of perseverance, the gift of help provided along
the way. At times, I’d like to think that person didn’t feel like practicing or
honing the craft and just wanted to go to bed or go out with friends but did it
anyway because it was his or her way of contributing everything available. I’d
like to think that God is pleased with that person honoring and proclaiming the
Almighty’s goodness.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">And I’d like to think that as I
experience the small victories in my own life, the times I hold my tongue, the
times I listen, the times I act lovingly in the Lord’s name to those I might in
my heart find unlovable, that I too am declaring and making God’s works known,
even if I don’t shout it out to the world.</span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"></span><span style="background: white; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"> </span></p><p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps;">Action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Declare God’s works today, in
actions and words.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><span style="background: white; color: black; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-color-alt: windowtext;"><!--[if gte mso 9]><xml>
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</xml><![endif]--><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">There is joy and delight in God by Beth DeCristofaro</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Before
them all Tobit proclaimed how God had mercifully restored sight to his eyes. …
That day there was joy for all the Jews who lived in Nineveh.</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
(Tobit 11:17)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Praise
the LORD, O my soul;<br />
I will praise the LORD all my life;<br />
I will sing praise to my God while I live.</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Psalm
146:1b-2)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">(Jesus
said) “How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David? David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, said:</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
The Lord said to my lord,<br />
‘Sit at my right hand<br />
until I place your enemies under your feet.’</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">David
himself calls him ‘lord’; so how is he his son?” The great crowd heard this
with delight.</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Mark 12:35-37)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #70ad47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-no-proof: yes;"><br /></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xY2IiPigqcs/YLoU3imDoBI/AAAAAAAAOeU/SjVxGoAubwk5OT-Ag1fqKHbZ4A0ttGjYwCLcBGAsYHQ/s768/JohnOfCrossQuote.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="425" data-original-width="768" height="221" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-xY2IiPigqcs/YLoU3imDoBI/AAAAAAAAOeU/SjVxGoAubwk5OT-Ag1fqKHbZ4A0ttGjYwCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h221/JohnOfCrossQuote.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><br /> <p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #70ad47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">This
week, two friends of mine experienced deaths in their families.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Both families have deep faith that their
loved ones are one with God, yet the sting of loss is not canceled.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In today’s readings, people respond with joy
and delight to the good news of God’s presence.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These people are very well acquainted with hardship and tragedy yet find
delight and joy in God. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Tobit
suffered blindness; his son and daughter-in-law were in danger from a
demon.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Their tale is full of suffering
but also fidelity to God throughout all. A conquering army oppressed the crowd
listening to Jesus, and he was derided and mocked by the temple leaders. Yet he
could proclaim his relationship to God, and they could be delighted.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus knew his persecution would continue,
yet his trust in God would carry him through.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>He would persevere in his mission to bring the Good News and <i>(keep)
my Father’s commandments and remain in his love.</i> (John 15:10).<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Those who have ears to hear and eyes to see experience
delight.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #70ad47; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent6;">Action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Ralph Waldo Emerson said, “Snatching the eternal out of
the desperately fleeting is the great magic trick of human imagination.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Being aware of the graces of God in suffering
is not magic but God’s desire to be with us throughout the good and the
bad.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my prayers, I hold up to God a
hurt, frustration, or obstacle in my life and ask for that awareness of God with
me.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In my actions, is there a person who
needs the presence of God in me?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Consider
how to be Jesus to her/him.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Illustration:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span><a href="https://olmc.us/2018/04/12/gods-garden-april-13-2018/"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">https://olmc.us/2018/04/12/gods-garden-april-13-2018/</span></a><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-39892382211762883102021-05-31T16:30:00.000-04:002021-05-31T16:30:20.883-04:00“Puffed Up with Pride” by Colleen O’Sullivan<p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;">“Puffed Up with Pride” by Colleen O’Sullivan</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060121.cfm">Memorial of Saint
Justin, Martyr</a><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><b><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"></span></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-1zupuliRgWU/YLVFPbdMIlI/AAAAAAAAOdo/WXxpeBlf9QkL7o75lLNj9TnY1405nfjhQCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_154.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><br /></a></b></div><b><o:p></o:p></b><p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cMeGgfISIRo/YLVFhqWGJxI/AAAAAAAAOdw/19m6K8rVZWIu8NVh5pp4nXyR1THy7Z-nwCLcBGAsYHQ/s2048/Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_154.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2048" data-original-width="1547" height="400" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-cMeGgfISIRo/YLVFhqWGJxI/AAAAAAAAOdw/19m6K8rVZWIu8NVh5pp4nXyR1THy7Z-nwCLcBGAsYHQ/w303-h400/Rembrandt_Harmensz._van_Rijn_154.jpg" width="303" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;">Rembrandt, Tobit and Anna with the Kid, 1626, <br />Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam, Public Domain, Wikimedia Commons[i]</span></td></tr></tbody></table></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><o:p> </o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">At that time, my wife Anna worked for hire at
weaving cloth, the kind of work women do. When she sent back the goods to
their owners, they would pay her. Late in winter on the seventh of
Dystrus,</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 14.0pt;"> </span><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">she
finished the cloth and sent it back to the owners. </span></i><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">They paid
her the full salary and also gave her a young goat for the table. On
entering my house the goat began to bleat.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>I called to my wife and said: “Where did this goat come from? Perhaps
it was stolen! Give it back to its owners; we have no right to eat stolen
food!”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>She said to me, “It was given to
me as a bonus over and above my wages.”<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet
I would not believe her and told her to give it back to its owners.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>I became very angry with her over this.
So she retorted: “Where are your charitable deeds now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Where are your virtuous acts? See! Your
true character is finally showing itself!” (Tobit 2:11-14)<o:p></o:p></span></i></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><br /></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WCDkoCU9amo/YLVF-Ejua5I/AAAAAAAAOd4/64OAoAdqs00tIyUNfYZ-Z5Ywp6JiwHdLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s301/coin.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="290" data-original-width="301" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-WCDkoCU9amo/YLVF-Ejua5I/AAAAAAAAOd4/64OAoAdqs00tIyUNfYZ-Z5Ywp6JiwHdLgCLcBGAsYHQ/s0/coin.jpg" /></a></td></tr></tbody></table></i></p><br /><table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="float: left; text-align: center;"><tbody><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"></td><td class="tr-caption"><br /><br /><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><br /><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 10.0pt; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Coin from reign of Caesar Augustus</span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"><br /></span></i></p><p style="margin: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Jesus said to them, “Repay to Caesar what belongs
to Caesar and to God what belongs to God.”
They were utterly amazed at him. (Mark
12:17)</span></i></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“… <span style="color: black;">if a thought or a desire leads you on the
road of </span><a href="http://www.popefrancishomilies.com/humility"><span style="color: black;">humility</span></a><span style="color: black;">, of
self-abasement and of </span><a href="http://www.popefrancishomilies.com/service"><span style="color: black;">service
to others</span></a><span style="color: black;">, it is of Jesus; but if it leads
you on the road of </span><a href="http://www.popefrancishomilies.com/self-importance"><span style="color: black;">self-importance</span></a><span style="color: black;">, of </span><a href="http://www.popefrancishomilies.com/vanity"><span style="color: black;">vanity</span></a><span style="color: black;"> and of </span><a href="http://www.popefrancishomilies.com/pride"><span style="color: black;">pride</span></a><span style="color: black;">, or on the road of abstract thought, it is not of Jesus.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left: .5in; mso-list: l0 level1 lfo1; text-indent: -.25in;"><!--[if !supportLists]--><span style="mso-bidi-font-family: Arial; mso-fareast-font-family: Arial;"><span style="mso-list: Ignore;">-<span style="font: 7.0pt "Times New Roman";">
</span></span></span><!--[endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pope Francis’ <a href="http://www.popefrancishomilies.com/pride">Homily</a> at Mass on January
7, 2014 based on 1 John 3:22-4:6</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Study<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Tobit, the main character in today’s first reading, has had a freak accident.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Sleeping next to the courtyard wall, he didn’t
notice a bird’s nest directly over where he made his bed.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>While he was lying there, bird droppings fell
from the nest into his eyes, resulting in blindness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Now he can no longer work.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>He has gone from being a well-paid court
official to being totally dependent on his wife’s earnings from her “woman’s
work.” <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>One day she comes home after delivering
the cloth she has woven.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Besides her
wages, her employer has given her a goat so she and Tobit would have meat to
put on the table.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">The ensuing conversation/fighting match struck me funny at first.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Far from being grateful for his wife’s boss’
generosity, he doesn’t believe her and says she should take it back. <span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Then it’s his wife’s turn to vent her irritation with Tobit’s nonsense.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You talk a good line, but where is your
charity now?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>What about Tobit’s past virtuous
acts?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Were they not sincere?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Your true self is showing, she shouts.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">It’s not so funny, however, when we realize that this story illustrates
the excessive pride you and I often take in our own accomplishments as well as
our embarrassment and unwillingness to let others help us when we need help.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>We don’t want our friends to see us in our
moment of weakness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s evidently okay
for Tobit to have been charitable to others when he stood upright and proud
before his neighbors, but on this occasion when help should have been welcome,
he allows his pride to get the better of him and resents the gift of the animal
and even suggests that perhaps his wife might have stolen it!</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">Pride has been referred to as the worst of the Seven Deadly Sins.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Pride leads us to put more stock in our own
abilities than in the grace of God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Pride tricks us into believing that we are running our own show without
any need for divine assistance.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Live
long enough and we’ll all be in Tobit’s position at some point, helpless and
angry because we’ve been exposed as mere, needy mortals.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; mso-fareast-language: X-NONE;">As I pondered today’s Gospel reading, I thought how weary Jesus must
have been of all the attempts to catch him doing or saying something for which
he could be arrested.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Here the Pharisees
join forces with representatives of Herod’s government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>They make a blatant attempt to trick Jesus
into picking his Father over the Roman government.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>First, they flatter him.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><i>Jesus, you are honest. You aren’t afraid
of anyone.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You don’t let anyone’s status
impress you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You are only concerned with
God’s ways.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>So, tell us, is it lawful to
pay taxes to Caesar</i>?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus is a
threat to their pride of place in the community and their authority over the people.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Jesus doesn’t
get snared by their trickiness.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>“Repay
to Caesar what belongs to Caesar and to God what belongs to God” is his answer.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Be a good citizen of your country and, at the
same time, be a loyal disciple of the Lord.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>These words contain nothing with which to find fault.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #538135; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-variant: small-caps; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Action<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">False pride
is something we all have to contend with at one time or another.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>It’s so easy to pat ourselves on the back and
take way too much credit for the things that go right in our lives.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The best weapon against that kind of pride is
to feel overwhelming gratitude for all the good gifts we receive from God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Have you ever been in Tobit’s position where
illness or any other catastrophe has cut you down to size and made a mockery of
your pride in yourself?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Spend some time
in prayer today thanking God for all God’s gifts to you.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>You’ll discover there’s no room for false pride
when we are truly grateful for God’s goodness toward us.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/daily-bible-reading" style="font-size: 12pt;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Feast of the Visitation of
the Blessed Virgin Mary</span></a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">On
that day, it shall be said to Jerusalem: Fear not, O Zion, be not discouraged! The
LORD, your God, is in your midst, a mighty savior; He will rejoice over you with gladness, and renew you in his love, He will sing joyfully because of you, as one sings at festivals.</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">
(Zephania 3:16-18)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Mary
said, “My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord;<br />
my spirit rejoices in God my Savior,<br />
for he has looked with favor on his lowly servant.<br />
From this day all generations will call me blessed:<br />
the Almighty has done great things for me,<br />
and holy is his Name.</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> <o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">He
has mercy on those who fear him<br />
in every generation.<br />
He has shown the strength of his arm,<br />
he has scattered the proud in their conceit.<br />
He has cast down the mighty from their thrones,<br />
and has lifted up the lowly.<br />
He has filled the hungry with good things,<br />
and the rich he has sent away empty.<br />
He has come to the help of his servant Israel<br />
for he has remembered his promise of mercy,<br />
the promise he made to our fathers,<br />
to Abraham and his children forever.” </span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">(Luke
1:46-49)<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #5b9bd5; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent5;">Piety<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">“Most
blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. </span></i><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;">Blessed
are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.”</span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%;"> (Luke 1:42, 45)</span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 8pt; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #5b9bd5; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent5;">Study<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;">One
of my favorite prayers, I am constantly stirred as I pray “(God) has looked
with favor on his lowly servant” and “the Almighty has done great things for
me.” Mary speaks humbly and powerfully as herself, yet also her words speak to
the whole of Israel, and directly to me as Mother. Mary’s words are personal
yet universal. Mary proclaims the grandeur and mercy of God to the human
condition for each individual and all nations simultaneously. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;">Sr.
Elizabeth Johnson wrote, “The Magnificat is a revolutionary song of salvation
whose political, economic, and social dimensions cannot be blunted. People in
need in every society hear a blessing in this canticle. The battered woman, the
single parent without resources, those without food on the table or without
even a table, the homeless family, the young abandoned to their own devices,
the old who are discarded: all are encompassed in the hope Mary proclaims. ….
Doesn’t God love everyone? Indeed yes, but in an unjust world, the form this
universal love takes differs according to circumstance. This song makes clear
that divine love is particularly on the side of those whose dignity must be
recovered. The divine intent is to build up a community marked by human dignity
and mutual regard.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/adecristofaro/Documents/5-31-2021.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a; font-size: 12pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #5b9bd5; font-family: verdana; font-size: 12pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%; mso-themecolor: accent5;">Action<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;">Today
let Mary’s words be in your mind, on your lips, and in your eyes as you look at
the greatness of the Lord around you. <o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #0e101a; font-family: verdana;">Give
thanks for the great things God has done for you. Pass it on.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="file:///C:/Users/adecristofaro/Documents/5-31-2021.docx#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> Elizabeth
Johnson, <strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">Mary, Mary, quite contrary</span><span style="color: #0e101a;">, </span></strong>2011<strong><span style="color: #0e101a;">,</span></strong> <a href="https://uscatholic.org/articles/201101/mary-mary-quite-contrary/">https://uscatholic.org/articles/201101/mary-mary-quite-contrary/</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Illustration:<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>Visitation, Bro. Mickey McGrath, Mural at the Eastern Deanery AIDS
Relief Center in Nairobi, Kenya.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span><a href="https://www.kolbetimes.com/br-mickey-mcgrath/">https://www.kolbetimes.com/br-mickey-mcgrath/</a></span>
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</div>Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-88886232515910518062021-05-30T09:05:00.000-04:002021-05-30T09:05:52.619-04:00“Witness with Our Spirit” by Rev. Paul Berghout <p><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 12pt;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gVpmGOHH5Ec/YLONBGMafGI/AAAAAAAAOdM/OVYT6oHuO_MDgGRkyjYEw5TmASQ1U0cQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s450/Trinity_knight_shield.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="450" data-original-width="399" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-gVpmGOHH5Ec/YLONBGMafGI/AAAAAAAAOdM/OVYT6oHuO_MDgGRkyjYEw5TmASQ1U0cQwCLcBGAsYHQ/s320/Trinity_knight_shield.jpg" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;">“Witness with Our Spirit”
by Rev. Paul Berghout<span style="font-size: 12pt;"> </span></span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/053021.cfm">The Solemnity of the
Most Holy Trinity</a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">This is why you must
now know and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God in the heavens above and
on earth below, and that there is no other.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> Deuteronomy 4:39</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">The Spirit himself
bears witness with our spirit that we are children of God, and if children, then
heirs, heirs of God, and joint-heirs with Christ</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Romans 8:16-17</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Go, therefore, and
make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of
the Son, and of the Holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have
commanded you. And behold, I am with you always. Matthew</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;"> 28:19-20</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Piety<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Come, Holy Spirit fill
the hearts of your faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send
forth your Spirit and they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of
the earth.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><b><span style="color: #c00000; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps;">Study<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">The
ecstatic existence of the Trinity is the supreme confidence of love that love
offered will be returned and more than returned via replenished giving that no
one can diminish or exhaust. In Latin: </span><em><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Esse
Deus dare</span></span></em><span data-preserver-spaces="true">: to be God is to
give.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Consider the words and nightly deeds of
Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing. In wartime, she made her
systematic rounds of all the medical tents, saw patients, and regularly cleaned
the tents.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">She said, “I have very ordinary ability...
God has done all, and I nothing. I have worked hard, very hard, that’s it, and
I have never refused God anything.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Like the Most Holy Trinity: the universe,
including human beings, is intrinsically relational. For example, a writer in a
current journal says, “Most persons find that their faith in a future life is a
belief only, not a conviction. And why? Because the self for whose immortality
they hope is an unreal abstraction.”<a href="file:///C:/Users/adecristofaro/Documents/Fix%20in%20your%20Heart.docx#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-US;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a>
<o:p></o:p></span></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">To illustrate this, somebody asked, “I heard
the Catechism teaches that human beings can become God. How is this possible?”
The answer is that we make our soul a habitation for God beginning at baptism.
No matter how busy you are: you can have a cloistered heart. We have Heaven
within us. This idea and ideal is the core of St. Elizabeth of the Trinity’s
message. She wanted us to understand that if union with God is our end, then
Heaven is not a destination but rather a completion, a perfection of a state of
being. This blessed existence can begin now, anticipating the eternal present.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Matt Chandler said, “God doesn’t need to
have emergency meetings. He’s never gathered the Trinity and asked, `What
happened there?’”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">If you want to sense the Trinity dwelling
in you, 2 Peter 1:4 gives a clue: “….that…you may participate in the divine
nature, having escaped the corruption in the world caused by evil desires.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">The Trinity is our protection.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">A painting called “Shield of the Trinity”
featured in manuscripts and many stained-glass windows has the word “Deus,”
inscribed in the center with lines leading out to three points, which are
labeled: </span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“The Father is God”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“The Son is God”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“The Holy Spirit is God”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“God is the Father”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“God is the Son”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“God is the Holy Spirit”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">The whole purpose is liberation from
spiritual bondage in the battlefield of our thoughts by renouncing sinful
thoughts and desires. This attitude frees us to receive the blessing God has
given us in his Son so we might live for the praise of His glory. Our Second
Reading speaks of “a Spirit of adoption, through whom we cry, “Abba, Father!”
The Spirit himself bears witness with our Spirit that we are children of God.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">It is perfectly acceptable to orient our
prayers to the Son or the Spirit even though all prayer speaks to the Father.</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">“Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your
faithful and kindle in them the fire of your love. Send forth your Spirit, and
they shall be created. And You shall renew the face of the earth.”</span><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in;"><span data-preserver-spaces="true"><span style="color: #0e101a; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif;">Prayers to Jesus are very common. For
example, devotions to the Sacred Heart of Jesus that begin, “Most sacred, most
loving Heart of Jesus;” and the Fatima prayer after each decade of the Rosary,
“O my Jesus, forgive us our sins, save us from the fire of hell. Lead all souls
to Heaven, especially those who are most in need of your mercy.”</span></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5-ZgTSlFT6k/YLONRswCD1I/AAAAAAAAOdU/m1o5xSvoCd4dbtenw5rkRlhoVxQmI-rAACLcBGAsYHQ/s700/celtic-trinity-knot1583707-prints.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="700" height="320" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-5-ZgTSlFT6k/YLONRswCD1I/AAAAAAAAOdU/m1o5xSvoCd4dbtenw5rkRlhoVxQmI-rAACLcBGAsYHQ/s320/celtic-trinity-knot1583707-prints.jpg" /></a></div><p></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Refuse God nothing
like the Trinity, that in giving being is replenished not diminished or
exhausted.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">Understand that
heaven can dwell within you when you are in the state of grace. This blessed
existence can begin now by indwelling of the Holy Trinity.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">A spiritual militancy
is required daily in this life through renunciation and faith by the “Shield of
the Trinity.”</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height: normal; margin-bottom: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt;">AMEN.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><a href="file:///C:/Users/adecristofaro/Documents/Fix%20in%20your%20Heart.docx#_ednref1" name="_edn1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><!--[if !supportFootnotes]--><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-size: 10pt; line-height: 107%;">[i]</span></span><!--[endif]--></span></span></a> H.
Heath Bawden, in the Review of Religion, May 1950, p. 410.<o:p></o:p></i></span></p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><o:p><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i> </i></span></o:p></p>
<p class="MsoEndnoteText"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i>Image Credit: By Unknown (13th-century scribe/illuminator)
- British Library, Public Domain, <a href="https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1288638">https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=1288638</a></i></span>
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</div>Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-29836277524428842542021-05-29T07:26:00.001-04:002021-05-29T07:28:58.897-04:00Secrets by Melanie Rigney<p><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"></span></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbRGtzcJV_GY9iouGP2J9gGCUwrzWkL_zEhK12gEoFlXUGfkO_BbI1-UZQbtgDKVEfa6S-vpxbKAH0uOqyVOlRGkz07BQSCr1WdxRSZswZEzZFCYMVaScQwTW1V6eRNkqdIGYNUg/s751/tripod_bensira_wikimedia_publicdomain_052221.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="751" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgbRGtzcJV_GY9iouGP2J9gGCUwrzWkL_zEhK12gEoFlXUGfkO_BbI1-UZQbtgDKVEfa6S-vpxbKAH0uOqyVOlRGkz07BQSCr1WdxRSZswZEzZFCYMVaScQwTW1V6eRNkqdIGYNUg/w400-h320/tripod_bensira_wikimedia_publicdomain_052221.png" width="400" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><i>Jesus Ben Sirach</i></span><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"><br />Secrets
by Melanie Rigney</span><span face="Verdana, sans-serif"> </span><p></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/052921.cfm"><span style="mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Saturday of the Eighth Week of Easter</span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">When
I was young and innocent,<br />
I sought wisdom openly in my prayer<br />
I prayed for her before the temple,<br />
and I will seek her until the end,<br />
and she flourished as a grape soon ripe.<br />
My heart delighted in her,<br />
My feet kept to the level path<br />
because from earliest youth I was familiar with her.<br />
In the short time I paid heed,<br />
I met with great instruction.<br />
Since in this way I have profited,<br />
I will give my teacher grateful praise.<br />
I became resolutely devoted to her—<br />
the good I persistently strove for.<br />
My soul was tormented in seeking her, <br />
My hand opened her gate<br />
and I came to know her secrets.<br />
I directed my soul to her,<br />
and in cleanness I attained to her. </span></i><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">(Sirach
51:13-20<span style="border: 1pt none windowtext; mso-border-alt: none windowtext 0in; padding: 0in;">)</span></span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; letter-spacing: 0.25pt; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">The precepts of the Lord give joy to the
heart. </span></i></span><span style="mso-bookmark: OLE_LINK1;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">(Psalm 19:9ab</span></span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif">Jesus and
his disciples returned once more to Jerusalem.<br />
As he was walking in the temple area,<br />
the chief priests, the scribes, and the elders<br />
approached him and said to him,<br />
“By what authority are you doing these things?<br />
Or who gave you this authority to do them?”<br />
Jesus said to them, “I shall ask you one question.<br />
Answer me, and I will tell you by what authority I do these things. <br />
Was John’s baptism of heavenly or of human origin? Answer me.”<br />
They discussed this among themselves and said,<br />
“If we say, ‘Of heavenly origin,’ he will say,<br />
‘Then why did you not believe him?’<br />
But shall we say, ‘Of human origin’?”–<br />
they feared the crowd,<br />
for they all thought John really was a prophet.<br />
So they said to Jesus in reply, “We do not know.”<br />
Then Jesus said to them,<br />
“Neither shall I tell you by what authority I do these things.” </span></i><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">(Mark 11:27-33)</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000;">Piety<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Lord, open my mind to the secrets
You desire to share with me.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000;">Study<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Wisdom is there for the asking. Or
rather, wisdom is there for the asking by those who are receptive.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Consider Ben Sira, the Jerusalem
sage who lived about two centuries before Christ. His thirst and desire for
wisdom—a deep thirst for an acceptance, if not an understanding, of God’s love,
mercy, and truth—led him to a “level path,” one on which he stayed for his
entire life. The more he understood, the more he sought to understand.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Consider the chief priests, scribes,
and elders who asked Jesus on whose authority He was acting. They weren’t
really interested in the answer. They posed the question in an attempt to trap
Him. As usual, Jesus’s response flummoxed them, even though they were well
practiced in answering a question with a question. Their “We do not know” was
not sincere. It was evasion. Instead of drawing closer to wisdom, their
subterfuge drove them further away.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">We live in a society where honest
questions, the kind Ben Sira asked on his level path, are ridiculed or drowned
out, where to fit in we are tempted to stay silent, to get along to go along.
Too often, our “We do not know” or “It’s not for me to judge” do not come from
a place of desiring answers to be drawn closer to God but rather to evade
deeper conversations where we might find wisdom… or be the vessel for imparting
it.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">Wisdom is there for the asking for
those who are receptive. For those who are not, it will never be found.</span></p>
<p class="MsoBodyText"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="color: #c00000;">Action<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white; color: black; mso-color-alt: windowtext;">At the end of the day, look at your
path. Was it level? Full of peaks and valleys or twists and turns? Pray for the
faith and strength to pursue the journey to wisdom more fully tomorrow.</span><span face=""Verdana",sans-serif" style="background: white;"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: verdana; font-size: x-small;"><i><span style="background: white; color: black;">Image credit: </span><span style="background-color: white; color: #222222;">Julius Schnorr von Carolsfeld, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons, </span><a data-saferedirecturl="https://www.google.com/url?q=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Sira%23/media/File:Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_149.png&source=gmail&ust=1622373513209000&usg=AFQjCNHDL7OD3GEFCBfn_2PMnz0I2bKSdw" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ben_Sira#/media/File:Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_in_Bildern_1860_149.png" style="background-color: white; color: #1155cc;" target="_blank">https://en.wikipedia.<wbr></wbr>org/wiki/Ben_Sira#/media/File:<wbr></wbr>Schnorr_von_Carolsfeld_Bibel_<wbr></wbr>in_Bildern_1860_149.png</a></i></span></p><div><span face="Verdana, sans-serif" style="text-align: center;"><br /></span></div>Anthony DeCristofarohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16241003759412928968noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-25220435.post-16781352061021460452021-05-27T11:09:00.000-04:002021-05-27T11:09:28.537-04:00Have Faith in God by Beth DeCristofaro<p class="MsoNormal"><!--[if !mso]>
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</xml><![endif]--><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Have Faith in God by Beth DeCristofaro</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><a href="https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/052821.cfm"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Friday
of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time</span></a><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Now
will I praise those godly men,<br />
our ancestors, each in his own time.<br />
But of others there is no memory,<br />
for when they ceased, they ceased.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
(Sirach 44:1, 9)</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><a name="_Hlk72738358"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">(Jesus) was hungry.</span></i></a><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> Seeing
from a distance a fig tree in leaf, he went over to see if he could find
anything on it. When he reached it, he found nothing but leaves; it was not the
time for figs. And he said to it in reply, “May no one ever eat of your fruit
again!” And his disciples heard it. They came to Jerusalem, and on entering the
temple area he began to drive out those selling and buying there. He overturned
the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who were selling doves. …<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Peter remembered and said to him, “Rabbi,
look! The fig tree that you cursed has withered.” Jesus said to them in reply, “Have faith in God.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">
(Mark 11:12-15, 21-22)</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"></span></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6h0B6CMEiXo/YK-15DG_vII/AAAAAAAAOck/uoJCIwJPhsYZZ1iHOsKB_VEzuICgNwpHQCLcBGAsYHQ/s647/fig.png" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="487" data-original-width="647" height="301" src="https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-6h0B6CMEiXo/YK-15DG_vII/AAAAAAAAOck/uoJCIwJPhsYZZ1iHOsKB_VEzuICgNwpHQCLcBGAsYHQ/w400-h301/fig.png" width="400" /></a></div><p></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #49701e; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%;">Piety</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Peace
Within </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">May
today there be peace within.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">May
you trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">May
you not forget the infinite possibilities that are born of faith.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">May
you use those gifts that you have received, and pass on the love that has been
given to you</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">May
you be confident knowing you are a child of God. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Let
this presence settle into your bones, and allow your soul the freedom to sing,
dance, praise and love. </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">It
is there for each and every one of us.<a href="#_edn1" name="_ednref1" style="mso-endnote-id: edn1;" title=""><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="mso-special-character: footnote;"><span class="MsoEndnoteReference"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-bidi-language: AR-SA; mso-bidi-theme-font: minor-bidi; mso-fareast-font-family: Calibri; mso-fareast-language: EN-US; mso-fareast-theme-font: minor-latin;">[i]</span></span></span></span></a></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #49701e; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%;">Study</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Having a bad day can be tedious; when a colleague is
cranky, the printer jams, one is late for a client meeting, and coffee spills
all over your briefcase, it can feel like the universe is against you!<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this Gospel, one might think Jesus is
having a bad day and reacting out of his frustration.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Yet here we see Jesus seeing Truth in the
“bad” moments and teaching us.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus
tells us that faith in God bears fruitfulness in God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">Often, we see plants as symbols in Scripture; a bush
burning in Genesis, the mustard seed growing large in the Gospels, cedar, olive
trees, and of course, Jesus as the vine.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>In Jeremiah and Micah, a fig tree symbolized Israel.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>In this reading, The tree’s lack of produce points
to the absence of vibrancy and fruitfulness of the Chosen People.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Look at the juxtaposition of the tree without
fruit and the “liveliness” of the Temple.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
</span>The Temple is full of people, bustling with prayer, presumably, but also
commerce.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>The focus is not on producing
spiritual fruit.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Jesus rejects this
bustling emptiness like he rejects the tree, grown green but not with
life-giving fruit.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;">(Jesus) was hungry.</span></i><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%; mso-bidi-font-weight: bold;"> The tree disappointed him as did the temple leaders
and the moneylenders.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>His relationship
with the Father sustained him but he wished to share it with all humanity.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Our hunger, too, is our longing for God.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>But our life can also be life-giving for
others when we live as friends of Christ.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;">
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0in; margin-bottom: 0in; margin-top: 0in; mso-add-space: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: 8.0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: 0in;"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;"><span style="color: #49701e; font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; font-variant: small-caps; line-height: 107%;">Action</span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Jesus’ words about the power of prayer are a powerful
reminder that when we remain in God (John’s Gospel readings from last week) we
will not “cease.” God’s love and mercy supersede our weaknesses.<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>God will not blast us like the fig tree, but
we can blast ourselves by our own choices, which might generate pretty leaves
but no nourishment for a hungry world.</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">In what way am I producing fruit?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Might I become more fruitful, nourishing and
revitalizing?<span style="mso-spacerun: yes;"> </span>Prayerfully I ask for the
grace to have ever more life-giving faith in God.</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family: "Verdana",sans-serif; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 107%;">Illustration:<a href="https://www.britannica.com/plant/fig"> https://www.britannica.com/plant/fig</a></span></p>
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Theresa of Avila, <a href="http://www.jesuitresource.org">www.jesuitresource.org</a>
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