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Title: FW: Meditation:

The Catholic Calendar for Tuesday, May 14, 2002     The Seventh Week of Easter     St. Matthias, apostle Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:     Acts 1:15-17,20-26     Psalm 113:1-8     John 15:9-17 A reflection on today's Scripture . . . . "If you keep my commandments, you will abide in my love." (John 15:10) St. Therese of Lisieux said, in Chapter 10 of her magnificent autobiography, Story of a Soul, that love was not just a matter of feeling. Certainly, feeling is part of Love; but Love, she said, Charity, was a matter of doing. And here Jesus tells us the same thing. Obviously, Therese took Jesus as her model: "If you keep My commandments, you will abide in My love." Love isn't some vaporous feeling, or some worked-up emotion. Rather, love is quite simply - actions! What actions? Actions that reflect what Jesus has told us. There are a great many of them, but they all boil down to the same thing. We are enjoined to stop thinking about ourselves and to get out and act for others. We are called to help the underprivileged, to be a voice for the voiceless, to love our neighbors as ourselves. All of these are the commandments that Jesus left with us. What should we do? Love Jesus. How? Do what He said to do. Help others. Do not seek to harm others. Speak no evil. When others speak evil against us, return only kindness. Read through the Gospels, and you'll see, over and over again Jesus tells us that the way to happiness is a path that leads us straight out of ourselves and into the Other. - JuandelaCruz T.O.Carm. ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) YOU CAN HELP to evangelize the Word of God: Please recommend our website to your friends and Catholic webmasters. The meditations are in English & Spanish at http://www.borg.com/~joachim/DailyMeds.html (case sensitive). ARCHIVED Meditations: 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/