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Topic: Dry Bones, Hear the Word of the Lord! (August 20)
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From: The Lighthouse Keeper <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Aug 20 03:48AM -0700
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Memorial of Saint Bernard, abbot and doctor of the Church
By Melanie Rigney
The hand of the LORD came upon me, and he led me out in the spirit of
the LORD and set me in the center of the plain, which was now filled
with bones. He made me walk among them in every direction so that I
saw how many they were on the surface of the plain. How dry they were!
He asked me: Son of man, can these bones come to life? "Lord GOD," I
answered, "you alone know that." Then he said to me: Prophesy over
these bones, and say to them: Dry bones, hear the word of the LORD!
Thus says the Lord GOD to these bones: See! I will bring spirit into
you, that you may come to life. I will put sinews upon you, make flesh
grow over you, cover you with skin, and put spirit in you so that you
may come to life and know that I am the LORD. I prophesied as I had
been told, and even as I was prophesying I heard a noise; it was a
rattling as the bones came together, bone joining bone. I saw the
sinews and the flesh come upon them, and the skin cover them, but
there was no spirit in them. Then he said to me: Prophesy to the
spirit, prophesy, son of man, and say to the spirit: Thus says the
Lord GOD: From the four winds come, O spirit, and breathe into these
slain that they may come to life. I prophesied as he told me, and the
spirit came into them; they came alive and stood upright, a vast army.
(Ezekiel 37:1-10)
For he satisfied the thirsty, filled the hungry with good things.
(Psalms 107:9)
When the Pharisees heard that Jesus had silenced the Sadducees, they
gathered together, and one of them, a scholar of the law, tested him
by asking, "Teacher, which commandment in the law is the greatest?" He
said to him, "You shall love the Lord, your God, with all your heart,
with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the greatest and
the first commandment. The second is like it: You shall love your
neighbor as yourself. The whole law and the prophets depend on these
two commandments." (Matthew 22:34-40)
Piety
Lord, my bones are so dry. Please send Your spirit to help me come to
life.
Study
We're nearing the end of summer, the end of vacation and playtime for
some. School starts again, and for the first time since early May,
everyone's going to be back in the office and intent on the corporate
or governmental mission.
And whereas spring can be a magical time for us spiritually, fall can
present a challenge. The days are getting shorter; it's not light at
six in the morning anymore, and sunset comes before eight. And,
liturgically, we've got three more months of ordinary time before
Advent.
For some, fall can be a sobering time of drought after an exciting,
jam-packed summer. If your bones are dry, you're not alone. The
question is, how will you rejuvenate them?
Consider taking a page from your childhood this fall, and go back to
school. Going back to school could mean hearing a lecture at your
parish. Or maybe it will be attending a School of Leaders presentation
or a diocesan or parish Ultreya for the first time in eons. Or maybe
it will be volunteering at the upcoming Men's Weekend. Or maybe it
will be reading something that will challenge or deepen your faith.
Challenge yourself. Try something new. And remember, as you struggle
to open yourself to spiritual nourishment, you may be surprised at the
way the Lord is working through you to feed others. In a letter in
September 1979, Blessed Teresa of Calcutta wrote a friend: "Jesus has
a very special love for you. As for me, the silence and the emptiness
is so great that I look and do not see, listen and do not hear." It
was just two months later that she was in Oslo to accept the Nobel
Peace Prize for the good she and her order had done for the poor of
Calcutta.
Action
Looking for a good book? Check out a Catholic best seller. (http://
www.cbpa.org/images/CB-0910.pdf)
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