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The Catholic Calendar for Saturday, June 15, 2002 Ninth Week in Ordinary Time Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word: 1 Kings 19:19-21 Psalm 16:1-2,5,7-10 Matthew 5:33-37 A Reflection on Today's Scripture: Let your 'Yes' mean Yes, and your 'No' mean No. At every stage in our lives, we battle with our ego and personality as we try to do God's will in our daily life. Very often we are tempted to take the 'easy route' the road travelled by the majority of our fellow men and women. It's human nature to rationalise our behaviour. We can make almost anything morally and socially acceptable by developing rational in-depth arguments supporting or negating a cause. And the more we bring our causes into the arena of public opinion...it takes good men and women to do nothing for evil to thrive... Jesus calls us to transcend our human tendencies and be unequivocal in our response to Him. Through the gifts of the Holy Spirit He has empowered us with all the necessary tools to discern how we should respond in tough life situations. There is no room for grey areas! Jesus calls us to say 'Yes' to Him so that He can enlighten our path. Today, we ask our Mother Mary to grant us the grace of discernment so that we may allow simplicity into our lives which allows us to say a deeper 'Yes' to Jesus. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen. - Cliodhna Doyle ([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. Scripture texts in this work are taken from the New American Bible with Revised New Testament and Revised Psalms (c)1991, 1986, 1970 Confraternity of Christian Doctrine, Washington, D.C. and are used by permission of the copyright owner. All Rights Reserved. No part of the New American Bible may be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the copyright owner. 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: Saturday, June 15, 2002
