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- See Clearly (June 21) [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/dec9840f776974b2
- Belong to Christ (June 20) [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/90801998739d66e
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Topic: See Clearly (June 21)
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/dec9840f776974b2
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From: "dxfaro@cox.net" <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Jun 20 06:20PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/47adbe3d530f39bd
Memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, religious
And though the LORD warned Israel and Judah by every prophet and seer,
"Give up your evil ways and keep my commandments and statutes, in
accordance with the entire law which I enjoined on your fathers and
which I sent you by my servants the prophets," they did not listen,
but were as stiff-necked as their fathers, who had not believed in the
LORD, their God. 2 Kings 17:13-14
Help with your right hand and answer us that your loved ones may
escape. Psalm 60:7
Why do you notice the splinter in your brother's eye, but do not
perceive the wooden beam in your own eye? How can you say to your
brother, 'Let me remove that splinter from your eye,' while the wooden
beam is in your eye? You hypocrite, remove the wooden beam from your
eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter from your
brother's eye. Matthew 7:3-5
Piety
Prayer to Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Patron of Youth
Help our youth today who are faced with a plague of false cults, false
idols and false gods. Show them how to harness their energies and to
use them for their own and others' fulfillment—which will redound to
the greater glory of God. Amen.
Study
Change seems to be the common denominator that unites the message of
today's readings. In the first reading from the book of Kings, people
are given a Santana-like warning: "You've got to change your evil
ways, baby before I stop loving you...Lord knows you've got to
change." Matthew also relates the hypocrisy that Jesus unmasks in his
followers. We have to make sure that our actions are consistent and
congruent with God's actions toward us. If we too harshly judge those
around us, then God will dole out similar harsh judgment against us.
When left to our own devices, the picture painted seems to indicate
that most of us are powerless to change of our own accord. We need
help if we want to succeed. Psalm 60 is where we find the key to
unlock the treasure of change: Give us aid against the foe; worthless
is human help. We will triumph with the help of God, who will trample
down our foes. Psalm 60:13-14
Action
What are you looking to change in your life? Are you guilty of passing
judgment against others in a spirit of arrogance, forgetful of your
own faults? What steps can you take to get over that attitude?
As Rector Phil wrote to me recently, he was struck by the words in a
sermon during Mass on Corpus Christi Sunday when the preacher
encouraged those assembled to "Get over you and get on with God." He
reminded me that Jesus the Carpenter can help to fix whatever in your
life is causing your tripod to wobble.
Step aside and let Jesus go to work on what you need fixed. "Worthless
is human help. We will triumph with the help of God."
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Topic: Belong to Christ (June 20)
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/90801998739d66e
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From: "dxfaro@cox.net" <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Jun 20 05:03AM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/b5c96c6002e3f8a6
Twelfth Sunday of Ordinary Time
By Rev. Joe McCloskey, SJ
I will pour out on the house of David and on the inhabitants of
Jerusalem a spirit of grace and petition; and they shall look on him
whom they have thrust through, and they shall mourn for him as one
mourns for an only son, and they shall grieve over him as one grieves
over a first-born. Zechariah 12:10
For all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves
with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, there is neither slave
nor free person, there is not male and female; for you are all one in
Christ Jesus. Galatians 3:27-28
Then he said to all, "If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny
himself and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whoever wishes
to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for my sake
will save it." Luke 9:23-24
Piety
Our piety is our divine connection. Christ tells us (John 15: 9): "As
the Father has loved me, so I have loved you." The Father gives to the
Word all that he is. Total Giving becomes total receiving. Jesus in
his human life is just like the Father. Christ gives to us all of
himself. The only limit on how much Christ we have is in our love.
Baptism gave us his life. Each time we receive Eucharist, his life in
us is increased. The only limit on how much Christ we are is found in
our freedom. We do not have to live up to the Christ we are meant to
be. Piety is the exercise of our freedom. The challenge of our piety
is to put on the mind and the heart of Christ. We are created to the
image and the likeness of God in Christ. When we surrender to Christ,
we are not just surrendering to our destiny. We are opening ourselves
up to the fullness of who we are meant to be. Our piety allows us to
reach out to the fullness of who we are meant to be in Christ.
Study
In our gospel of today the disciples are asked by Christ. "Who do you
say that I am?" As long as Christ was with us in the time of his
earthly life, Peter had the right answer. Today we have the same
answer in a personal form. We are meant to be the presence of Christ
whither we go. What Paul said of himself, we need to be able to say of
ourselves. "I live now not with my own life but with the life of
Christ who lives in me." We study the events in the life of Christ
that we might be able to translate Christ's response to the problems
with his people in his time to what our response would be if we are
going to be updates of Christ in our time. What we learn by our study
of the life of Christ and praying over the events in his life is how
to be transparencies of him. We face life in our time and age with his
answer to our problems being our answers. We study how to be Christ in
our time.
Action
The seven gifts of the Spirit need to be the driving force behind all
that we would do in the name of Christ. Living out the gifts of the
Spirit in our lives allows the fruits of the Spirit in us to become
the visibility of Christ in our lives. The life of Christ in us can be
seen by our patience in adversity, by our kindness and generosity in
the face of the needs of others, by the modesty of our lives as we
realize it is Christ at work in us that makes possible the good we do.
How chaste we are in our lives, how joyful we are with each other, all
of these fruits make the Christ of our hearts recognizable. We
recognize the goodness of each other by the holiness of life that
keeps our tongues speaking t he language of the angels as we give face
to Christ in our world. It will not be easy to accept the invitation
to follow Christ because the call is to deny ourselves and to take up
our crosses daily to follow Christ. We save our life by losing it for
the sake of Christ.
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