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DAY'S SAINTS
Anthony of Padua, Franciscan,Doctor of the Church
Blessed Gerard of Clairvaux, Cistercian

Gospel Mt 5:13-16

Jesus said to his disciples:
"You are the salt of the earth.
But if 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.
You are the light of the world.
A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.
Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket;
it is set on a lampstand,
where it gives light to all in the house.
Just so, your light must shine before others,
that they may see your good deeds
and glorify your heavenly Father."

Give me your heart in place of my own.

Do  not give up in despair, you have yet to be crucified, unless, of course, He has nailed you to your cross. While you struggle, continue to love Him with all the effort in your being, to demonstrate your love of Him, because He crucified you precisely for that purpose.

You will only get so many opportunities to show your love to Him before you are summoned to His side to account for your life. Be a good steward and invest all your trials into eternal life, an endless account from which only you and God can take anything.

He sees every moment of your life, and every impulse of your heart, so strive that they all be as perfect as your Lord, to answer every question decisively on the side of the Lord.

We have a heavenly country to which we belong and from which we can never be separated. We may be exiles on this earth, but God is everywhere, and all His holy blessings and affectionate longings for our love take place hidden in His Heart.

Was your heart pierced by the lance? The side of your Lord was, long before you were born, and He carried that wound like a shield awaiting your appearance on the scene, and defended you against all things that might harm your eternal existence. His wound was meant to enkindle your love so you might participate in its pain and bliss which exist together forever. Bow down to your brothers and sisters with that heart He has wounded so they too may catch fire in that eternal flame of love.

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DAY'S SAINTS
Anthony of Padua, Franciscan,Doctor of the Church
Blessed Gerard of Clairvaux, Cistercian

Gospel Mt 5:13-16

Jesus said to his disciples:
"You are the salt of the earth.
But if 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.
You are the light of the world.
A city set on a mountain cannot be hidden.
Nor do they light a lamp and then put it under a bushel basket;
it is set on a lampstand,
where it gives light to all in the house.
Just so, your light must shine before others,
that they may see your good deeds
and glorify your heavenly Father."

Give me your heart in place of my own.

Do  not give up in despair, you have yet to be crucified, unless, of course, He has nailed you to your cross. While you struggle, continue to love Him with all the effort in your being, to demonstrate your love of Him, because He crucified you precisely for that purpose.

You will only get so many opportunities to show your love to Him before you are summoned to His side to account for your life. Be a good steward and invest all your trials into eternal life, an endless account from which only you and God can take anything.

He sees every moment of your life, and every impulse of your heart, so strive that they all be as perfect as your Lord, to answer every question decisively on the side of the Lord.

We have a heavenly country to which we belong and from which we can never be separated. We may be exiles on this earth, but God is everywhere, and all His holy blessings and affectionate longings for our love take place hidden in His Heart.

Was your heart pierced by the lance? The side of your Lord was, long before you were born, and He carried that wound like a shield awaiting your appearance on the scene, and defended you against all things that might harm your eternal existence. His wound was meant to enkindle your love so you might participate in its pain and bliss which exist together forever. Bow down to your brothers and sisters with that heart He has wounded so they too may catch fire in that eternal flame of love.

Solitaire

Solitaire

I've lived many lonely places and I was lonely because Jesus was lonely and did not want to be lonely by Himself.

I don't know anyone who does. I can fathom the love of solitude as a means to pursuing peace and rest, but there is a darkness in it that is corrosive,and a burden that is ubearable. Yet, Jesus never refuses to help us by shouldering part of the sorrow.

The saints thrived and knew lonely places because they found Jesus there almost always. He bore a cross He has never been without, and He shared His passion-life with some, to endure the sharp pain of the lance in His Heart because the love that rested in Him always wanted to share.

They wanted more, and that it should never cease, becaue of the harmony of suffering and love that is an unbearable sweetness. 

Walk miles and love the beauty, but it will always be lonely without the love.

A favorite and powerful prayer.

Solitaire

Solitaire

I've lived many lonely places and I was lonely because Jesus was lonely and did not want to be lonely by Himself.

I don't know anyone who does. I can fathom the love of solitude as a means to pursuing peace and rest, but there is a darkness in it that is corrosive,and a burden that is ubearable. Yet, Jesus never refuses to help us by shouldering part of the sorrow.

The saints thrived and knew lonely places because they found Jesus there almost always. He bore a cross He has never been without, and He shared His passion-life with some, to endure the sharp pain of the lance in His Heart because the love that rested in Him always wanted to share.

They wanted more, and that it should never cease, becaue of the harmony of suffering and love that is an unbearable sweetness. 

Walk miles and love the beauty, but it will always be lonely without the love.

A favorite and powerful prayer.

Touching

Day's Saints
Columba of Iona, Priest
Ephrem of Syria, Doctor of the Church

Gospel Mk 12:35-37

As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said,
"How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David?
David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, said:
The Lord said to my lord,
'Sit at my right hand
until I place your enemies under your feet.'
David himself calls him 'lord';
so how is he his son?"
The great crowd heard this with delight.

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You cannot embrace the Lord
without touching the cross.

Never try to match wits with the Lord; you will be defeated and humiliated, for only a humble heart can see what He has waiting for you of His delight.

Troublemakers abound in the world today, losers who cannot bear their lives and try to drown out reality with drugs and sex which satisfy for a time, and then leave you in ruins corruption.

Behold the hand of the Lord is cleaning His threshing floor before He beats the grain from the stalks to gather His harvest into His barns. The children of God will eat well in His care and the sword of sorrow will vanish from sight.

Evil rose unbidden of jealous rage and sought to destroy the children of God, but as many as fell, a dozen more have risen empowered to triumph on earth in the name of the Lord.

I will serve my Lord, and my hands and feet will long for Him, and my heart He cleft will rejoice in Him when I thought everything was lost. Be careful whom yu address as Lord, for there is one God.

Touching

Day's Saints
Columba of Iona, Priest
Ephrem of Syria, Doctor of the Church

Gospel Mk 12:35-37

As Jesus was teaching in the temple area he said,
"How do the scribes claim that the Christ is the son of David?
David himself, inspired by the Holy Spirit, said:
The Lord said to my lord,
'Sit at my right hand
until I place your enemies under your feet.'
David himself calls him 'lord';
so how is he his son?"
The great crowd heard this with delight.

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You cannot embrace the Lord
without touching the cross.

Never try to match wits with the Lord; you will be defeated and humiliated, for only a humble heart can see what He has waiting for you of His delight.

Troublemakers abound in the world today, losers who cannot bear their lives and try to drown out reality with drugs and sex which satisfy for a time, and then leave you in ruins corruption.

Behold the hand of the Lord is cleaning His threshing floor before He beats the grain from the stalks to gather His harvest into His barns. The children of God will eat well in His care and the sword of sorrow will vanish from sight.

Evil rose unbidden of jealous rage and sought to destroy the children of God, but as many as fell, a dozen more have risen empowered to triumph on earth in the name of the Lord.

I will serve my Lord, and my hands and feet will long for Him, and my heart He cleft will rejoice in Him when I thought everything was lost. Be careful whom yu address as Lord, for there is one God.

Amazed

I am humbled by other people's vocations. They seem as if they would be impossible for me. Then i realise how God has prepared them, In each life is travail and suffering, and the urge to tell the world that Jesus is Lord is evident in my obscure existence the same as in all those marvellous people who had such incredible love for God, which empowered them to survive the worst the world can bring to bear.

My love for other people is also overflowing, and I need to love and to be another Christ in my own simple way. Then I see that we are all very great in our own way, the way shaped by Jesus, to move the immovable stones of the world, cold and hard hearts that will not be moved. 

But I see Him moving those stones. They are not heavy for Him at all, and the more we are like Him, the more we can do empowered by Him.

Thus we also see the necessity of complying with His Will for the sake of other souls.

People are wounded and deformed by life from an early age, and some becpme obnoxious to the point that people cannot tolerate them, and they do great harm by their blindness and selfishness, even though they do not see it. My life, like all other lives, contain a remedy that heals, but it must be applied gently and with the Lord's loving hands. It may take a long time, even most of their lives. Participating in God participates in His sorrows and His pains and woundedness; He takes on the wounds of the world that are

causing so much suffering, and if we participate in God, we participate in His sorrows, because He immerses Himself in our suffering in order to transform us. 

Do not underestimate yourself by judging your own value by looking at other people, but look at Jesus and ask what you should do. Then be ready to do what He asks. 

If you do this, life will contain its own tranquility given freely by the Lord.