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- I Will Not Revoke My Word (June 28) [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/308508a73ea54799
- Go and Proclaim the Kingdom (June 27) [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/2a24a68c8e2c5892
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Topic: I Will Not Revoke My Word (June 28)
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/308508a73ea54799
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From: "dxfaro@cox.net" <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Jun 27 08:54PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/c0c83c480dd07545
Memorial of Saint Irenaeus, bishop and martyr
Thus says the LORD: For three crimes of Israel, and for four, I will
not revoke my word; Because they sell the just man for silver, and the
poor man for a pair of sandals. They trample the heads of the weak
into the dust of the earth, and force the lowly out of the way. Son
and father go to the same prostitute, profaning my holy name. Amos
2:6-7
A scribe approached and said to him, "Teacher, I will follow you
wherever you go." Jesus answered him, "Foxes have dens and birds of
the sky have nests, but the Son of Man has nowhere to rest his head."
Another of (his) disciples said to him, "Lord, let me go first and
bury my father." But Jesus answered him, "Follow me, and let the dead
bury their dead." Matthew 8:19-22
Piety
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YWddmjGFl-o&feature=related (English)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=APKvYvGPEmU&feature=related (Spanish)
Lord, When You Came To The Seashore / Pescador Des Hombres
by Cesareo Gabarain
Lord, when you came to the seashore you weren't seeking the wise or
the wealthy, but only asking that I might follow.
REFRAIN (English): O Lord, in my eyes you were gazing, Kindly smiling,
my name you were saying; All I treasured, I have left on the sand
there; Close to you, I will find other seas.
Lord, you knew what my boat carried: neither money nor weapons for
fighting, but nets for fishing my daily labor. (REFRAIN)
Lord, have you need of my labor, hands for service, a heart made for
loving, my arms for lifting the poor and broken? (REFRAIN)
Lord, send me where you would have me, to a village, or heart of the
city; I will remember that you are with me. (REFRAIN)
Study
We are hearing some pretty harsh words from Jesus….words which would
keep people from even carrying out what we have traditionally known as
the spiritual works of mercy like burying the dead. Reading passages
like this one makes me wonder if Jesus really means what he says or is
he just being emphatic to make a point.
As much as I want to wish he was just taking a flair for the dramatic,
the more you compare what Jesus did in his life to what we do in our
life, it is hard to conclude he is just making a point.
Matthew 8 is a wake-up call. Follow me. If you don't believe what
Jesus says, believe in this message because of what he does. Follow
me. As much as he might wish for the cup of crucifixion to pass him
by, Jesus accepts the cup. He does not get a chance to say good-bye to
his mother until he is hanging from a tree by three nails.
Jesus chose to accept his accusations no matter how harsh and unjust
with silence. He put on the crown of thorns, the purple robe. He stood
by for his scourging with a whip and then in an already weakened
state, took up his cross and carried it up the hill until he was
nailed to it.
The Cursillo movement has a tendency to stress leadership. Maybe the
only leader in Cursillo is the one we are asked to follow. Maybe we
should rename that Saturday talk "Followers." Maybe the School of
Leaders should be renamed the School of Followers. The God of the
Hebrew Bible etched a covenant in stone, a covenant that said "Walk
with me." No matter what you do, I will not revoke my invitation.
Jesus turned up that covenant a notch or three with his actions and
his command, "Follow me."
Action
What are you doing to "Follow" this week? Remember in your prayers
those high school and college students and their chaperones who are on
or are preparing to go on a work camp experience at their parish or
diocesan level. They have answered the call to go where the Lord and
his children need.
While their friends are content to earn money in a summer job or soak
up the sun at poolside, they have given up a week or more to travel in
cramped cars and vans to a strange area of the state, country, or
world to answer the call to arms – because the Lord asked and has need
of their labor, their hands for service, their hearts for loving,
their arms for lifting the poor and broken. Pray for them this week
and the people that they are helping.
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Topic: Go and Proclaim the Kingdom (June 27)
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/2a24a68c8e2c5892
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From: "dxfaro@cox.net" <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Jun 27 05:56AM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/db852f56531b7ae8
Thirteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
By Rev. Joe McCloskey, SJ
Elijah set out, and came upon Elisha, son of Shaphat, as he was
plowing with twelve yoke of oxen; he was following the twelfth. Elijah
went over to him and threw his cloak over him. Elisha left the oxen,
ran after Elijah, and said, "Please, let me kiss my father and mother
good-bye, and I will follow you." "Go back!" Elijah answered. "Have I
done anything to you?" Elisha left him and, taking the yoke of oxen,
slaughtered them; he used the plowing equipment for fuel to boil their
flesh, and gave it to his people to eat. Then he left and followed
Elijah as his attendant. 1 Kings 19:19-21
For you were called for freedom, brothers. But do not use this freedom
as an opportunity for the flesh; rather, serve one another through
love. For the whole law is fulfilled in one statement, namely, "You
shall love your neighbor as yourself." Galatians 5:13-14
"I will follow you, Lord, but first let me say farewell to my family
at home." (To him) Jesus said, "No one who sets a hand to the plow and
looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God." Luke
9:61-62
Piety
The more things we have, the less freedom we have. Protecting our
freedom is difficult in our world that preaches the gospel of
neediness. There is the call of Christ that is in our hearts. We have
been given by the resurrection of Christ the ultimate reason to do
good and to avoid evil. There is no shortcut to following Christ. The
world created through Christ and for Christ is a wonderful place to
live in when we are unencumbered with possessions. The law of God is
fulfilled by our loving our neighbor as our self. The second
commandment is what selfless love is all about. When we live by the
Spirit, we are not under the law. The Spirit sets us free to follow
Christ. When we burn our bridges, there is no going back. The desire
to follow Christ to Jerusalem is the call of Christ. The call claims
our heart by all the ways we come to know Christ.
Study
We study how to follow Christ. The desire to follow Christ is born in
our freedom. The desire to be close to Christ belongs to our creation.
We are created in the image and the likeness of God in Christ. If I am
willing to get close to him, the realization of true happiness draws
me on to even a closer relationship. The promises of the Sacred Heart
are what we need to hold Christ to live up to. If we honor the love of
Christ, the tepid become fervent. The fervent become more fervent.
Christ promises to raise us up to great sanctity if we live his love
for one another. We are called by Christ's love for us to freedom.
Love generates a response. Love calls us to an ever closer
relationship. Christ comes to us in our prayer. He confirms us in our
gifts so that we truly have something to give to those we love.
Because we are created in the image and the likeness of Christ, we
study each other to discover the truth of Christ in our lives.
Action
Elijah anointed Elisha to succeed him. Each of us needs to have
Christ's friends in our lives. We anoint each other to closer
relationships to Christ by sharing our love of Christ with those
companions of life that we hold dear. Wherever there is love, God is
there. Our freedom is seen in our dedication to God in our daily life.
True freedom is the doing of things in the way of Christ. Our lives
with the saints bring us down the road of Christ made real in our
times and days. How Christ appeals to us is in our freedom. True
Freedom is found in closeness to Christ. His road to the Cross is
paved with his love of all of us. Our willingness to suffer for a
better world is how we go with Christ to Jerusalem. Our fitness for
the Kingdom of God is seen in how we look forward to what is coming in
Christ for us. The Take and Receive prayer of St. Ignatius says I all:
Take and receive, O Lord, my liberty, My mind and my will I return to
you. Your Grace and your love is enough for me.
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