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- All, From Least To Greatest, Shall Know Me (August 5) [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/a10105650480a29c
- As You Wish (August 4) [1 Update]
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Topic: All, From Least To Greatest, Shall Know Me (August 5)
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/a10105650480a29c
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From: "dxfaro@cox.net" <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Aug 04 09:20PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/c5ac4c837f8105b3
Thursday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
But this is the covenant which I will make with the house of Israel
after those days, says the LORD. I will place my law within them, and
write it upon their hearts; I will be their God, and they shall be my
people. No longer will they have need to teach their friends and
kinsmen how to know the LORD. All, from least to greatest, shall know
me, says the LORD, for I will forgive their evildoing and remember
their sin no more. Jeremiah 31:33-34
When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi he asked his
disciples, "Who do people say that the Son of Man is?" They replied,
"Some say John the Baptist, others Elijah, still others Jeremiah or
one of the prophets." He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Matthew 16:13-15
Piety
78. Who is the Savior of all men?
The Savior of all men is Jesus Christ.
79. What is the chief teaching of the Catholic Church about Jesus
Christ?
The chief teaching of the Catholic Church about Jesus Christ is that
He is God made man.
80. Why is Jesus Christ God?
Jesus Christ is God, because He is the only Son of God, having the
same Divine nature as His Father.
(From the Baltimore Catechism, Lesson 7, The Incarnation found online
at http://www.catholicity.com/baltimore-catechism/lesson07.html)
Study
"But who do you say that I am?"
M. Basil Pennington writing in the introduction to his series of
meditations, Living in the Question: Meditations in the Style of
Lectio Divina (New York: Continuum Books, 1999) reflects on the
questions posed in our faith journey and concludes: "We don't have all
the answers. We do thank God, have some answers. But answers that give
birth to far many more questions."
Father Basil grew up like many of us with that volume "affectionately"
known as the Baltimore Catechism. We learned our "faith" by studying
(memorizing) these questions and answers. If you are in that
generation, you probably still remember some of the content drilled
into us in school or religious education by nuns wearing long black
habits. Fr. Basil takes exception to the pat answers doled out there
because Jesus is not looking for us to repeat back to him some pat
answers.
The answers are there. Right there in the Baltimore Catechism are
answers to questions about Jesus. But these answers might not have
done Peter much good. Jesus was not asking "Who does the Baltimore
Catechism say that I am?" Jesus only asked about who others were
saying as the lead in to find out Peter's answer, your answer and my
answer.
However, when we study the Bible, we find questions. Questions from
Abraham. Questions from Moses. Questions from Isaiah and the prophets.
Questions from Jesus and questions to Jesus. It is only in our own
personal journey toward God that we might find the answers. And then
some more questions.
Action
Cursillo leads us to come up with answers on our own. The three-day
weekend (which starts tonight for the 131st Women's Cursillo in the
Diocese of Arlington) helps us to confront questions of like "Who am
I?" "Who is Jesus?" "What is my role in the Church?"
Look back on the notebook you kept during your three-day weekend. If
you have not had that experience, think about how you would have
answered Jesus five or ten years ago. How would you answer him today?
Pray for the candidates on this weekend that they may meditate on life
in the love of the Lord and find some questions for their answers.
All, from least to greatest, shall know me.
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Topic: As You Wish (August 4)
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/9826effb075768ab
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From: "dxfaro@cox.net" <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Aug 03 10:49PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/803c97b0b56b14d
Memorial of Saint John Vianney, priest
At that time, says the LORD, I will be the God of all the tribes of
Israel, and they shall be my people. Thus says the LORD: The people
that escaped the sword have found favor in the desert. As Israel comes
forward to be given his rest, the LORD appears to him from afar: With
age-old love I have loved you; so I have kept my mercy toward you.
Again I will restore you, and you shall be rebuilt, O virgin Israel;
Carrying your festive tambourines, you shall go forth dancing with the
merrymakers. Jeremiah 3:1-4
And behold, a Canaanite woman of that district came and called out,
"Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David! My daughter is tormented by a
demon." But he did not say a word in answer to her. His disciples came
and asked him, "Send her away, for she keeps calling out after us."
Matthew 15:21-23
Piety
Go Into the World
Words & music by Joe Hand
Go into the world and proclaim the good news
Go into the world and profess His holy name
Those who believe His hand will save
for He has risen from the grave
And the world you know will never be the same.
He never said it would be easy
He never said it would come free
The road that leads to Heaven
climbs a hill called Calvary.
Go into the world and remember what He said
Never forget He has risen from the dead
For the Lord will live in you
only if you ask Him to
Come to know Him in the breaking of the bread.
Do not give in to doubt or be deceived
away from the love that He wants us to receive
Decide to follow the Lord's way
You are born again that day
the Heaven's will rejoice the hour that you believe.
Never said it would be easy
Never said it would come free
"If you want to get to heaven
take your cross and follow me."
Study
Once again, we are confronted with a scene in which the disciples want
to send away another person who has turned to Jesus for healing much
in the same way they wanted to send home the people who had gathered
to hear Jesus preach.
However, Jesus can not and does not continue to ignore the woman whose
daughter needs healing. Jesus can not and does not continue to ignore
a person which such great faith. Even though she might not be a Jew,
Jesus knows that his ministry is for all people.
Jesus doesn't check passports before handing out forgiveness. He
doesn't consult a list of approved persons maintained by the
Department of State, Department of Homeland Security or the Department
of the Treasury. He just hands out forgiveness and mercy to all who
seek it.
Culturally, it is hard for the disciples to adjust to this new
practice in which Jesus embraces all people in his ministry. His
mission includes everyone from the Samaritan woman at the well to the
Roman centurion to the Pharisee Nicodemus. With age-old love I have
loved you; so I have kept my mercy toward you.
Action
If we are to live out these difficult lessons in this difficult time,
it won't be any easier for us than it was for the disciples or for the
Jews of Jeremiah's time who survived execution only to be banished to
the desert.
This week, we have a chance to see this mercy and love in action as
the nuns at the Benedictine monastery in Bristow, VA, and all who were
touched by her life cope with the loss of Sister Denise Mosier,
O.S.B., who was killed when the car she was riding in was hit by a car
driven by Carlos A. Martinelly-Montano who is charged with driving
while intoxicated. The headline in today's Washington Post summarizes
the challenge: "Nuns at Virginia monastery find room to forgive while
mourning sister's death." (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/
content/article/2010/08/03/AR2010080306951.html?hpid=topnews)
We all have experienced the figurative desert in our lifetime.
Sometimes it is easier to see ourselves as the person banished to the
desert. We want to be the people who are restored. However, today we
also are called to be people of forgiveness.
As the nuns in the monastery in Bristow are showing us, living out the
call to mercy may not be easy. But Jesus never said it would be easy.
He only promised that it would be worth it.
Who must you forgive this week? Who is the woman with the tormented
daughter in your life? Who is the Carlos A. Martinelly-Montano in your
life? When the doorbell rings, don't send that person or persons away.
Let Jesus and his new servant on the cloud of witnesses, Sr. Denise,
guide you.
May the soul of Sr. Denise and the souls of all the faithfully
departed, through the mercy of God, rest in peace. May her sisters
find teh healing and strength Jesus freely gave to the mother who
turned to him in great faith. May Mr. Martinelly-Montano and his
family find the peace and forgiveness that they seek.
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