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The Catholic Calendar for Monday, May 20, 2002 The Seventh Week in Ordinary Time St. Bernardine of Siena Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word: James 3:13-18 Psalm 19:8-10,15 Mark 9:14-19 A reflection on today's Scripture. . . . O unbelieving generation, how long will I put up with you. (Mark 9:19) Today's Gospel makes an important connection between faith and prayer, the fact that a deep, abiding faith, grows side by side with a genuine prayer life. God created us with a built-in compass that points and draws us to himself who is ever seeking our company that he may reveal himself to us as he reveals us to ourselves. When we generously respond to his prompting us to prayer, he gifts us with an ever deepening faith that opens the floodgates through which his life-giving grace can flow into this world to those in need. Any who genuinely desire to do God's work soon make some important discoveries as they grow in the knowledge of God and become faith-filled. They are to abandon worldly cares, desires and ambitions and focus consciously on God's will and power, not upon themselves. They are to become his instruments, his tools shaped perfectly to conform with God's hands, that He may use us with ease in accomplishing His will. Was there a hint of impatience in Christ's words to his disciples? More likely it was a wake-up call arousing them from their spiritual lethargy, prodding them into observing and imitating his total faith, reliance and abandonment to his Father, his many hours and entire nights spent in prayer, preparing himself to complete his mission, the same mission he soon would be assigning to them. Christ lives on forever, and those who bear his name have the responsibility of bringing him into this world in their own flesh. Spirit of Truth and Love, imbue us with your very life, that in all our days on this earth we may dispel evil and bring honor and glory to You. Amen. - Marie L. Bocko, ocds ([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/ |
Title: Meditation: Monday, May 20, 2002
