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Important Note of Explanation: Dear subscribers and former subscribers to the Daily Meditations, Over the past four days, we have had a simultaneous disruption to the publication of the Daily Meditations. First, the email module and web browser on my computer stopped working with each other. Thankfully, there was a communications channel via my ISP. However, such a method is so limited that I was unable to negotiate all the steps required to get this undertaking out to the Internet. Thankfully, I have been able to feed our website on a day to day basis, where you can find current status of the email list and the status of the website, as well as the Meditations up to two days in advance. The second problem was the failure of our listserver. Without a server to propagate the Daily Meditations, we are nowhere. But thankfully, this has been remedied by our good friend and benefactor, Steve Shawl. Currently our subscriber list is not accurate. I am sure that there are people who do not wish to be on this mailing list. If this is your situation, please send me a blank email with "unsubscribe" in the subject line and your address will be removed promptly. Thank you for your patience and I apologize for any inconvenience. Sincerely in Christ, - Joachim Nelson editor/publisher, The Daily Meditations -------------- The Catholic Calendar for Wednesday, February 13, 2002 Ash Wednesday (Ash Wednesday is a day of Fast and Abstinence) Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word: Joel 2:12-18 Psalm 51:3-6,12-14,17 2 Corinthians 5:20--6:2 Matthew 6:1-6,16-18 A Reflection on Today's Scripture: That special time of opportunity has come again! A chance to focus on our sins and failings, and to truly repent from the heart. A chance to acknowledge our responsibility toward the millions of starving people in our world, and to do something personally and communally. A chance to make reparation for our materialism, our selfishness, our thoughtlessness. Between the porch and the altar -- our everyday world and our life as the Baptized, we cry: Spare your people, Lord! Lent is that special time of springing awake with a sense of joy and relief. Like a people freed from slavery, we respond with alertness, a tingle of anticipation in six weeks of striving to achieve a new level of fidelity. May this Lent be a radical shift in our lives. May we become a people of praise, a people of service, making His concern for our troubled world our own. - Msgr. Paul E. Whitmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) YOU CAN HELP to evangelize the Word of God: Please recommend our website to your friends and Catholic webmasters. The Daily Meditations appear online in English & Spanish at: http://homepage.mac.com/ojoachim3/DailyMeds.html ARCHIVED Meditations at: http://www.abcsoffaith.com/quiet/quietplace.html and at: http://www.mail-archive.com/dailymed%40saturn.nibcomp.com For ALL communications, including subscribe/unsubscribe: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (c)2002 The Way, The Truth, The Life. Permission granted to make reprints of the meditations or to post on any web page, except for profit. All scripture quotes are from the Douay-Rheims edition of the Catholic Bible. Full text from the New American Bible: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/index.htm Lives of the Saints: http://www.christdesert.org/public_texts/martyrology/ |
Title: Meditation: Wednesday, February 13, 2002
