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- An Inexhaustible Treasure in Heaven (August 8) [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/e791d15af184208d
- Because of Your Little Faith (August 7) [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/a47c648f2fce4741
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Topic: An Inexhaustible Treasure in Heaven (August 8)
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/e791d15af184208d
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From: "dxfaro@cox.net" <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Aug 06 07:39PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/63d3f74255631a76
Nineteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
By Rev. Joe McCloskey, SJ
Your people awaited the salvation of the just and the destruction of
their foes. For when you punished our adversaries, in this you
glorified us whom you had summoned. Wisdom 18:7-8
Faith is the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things
not seen. Because of it the ancients were well attested. Hebrews
11:1-2
Do not be afraid any longer, little flock, for your Father is pleased
to give you the kingdom. Sell your belongings and give alms. Provide
money bags for yourselves that do not wear out, an inexhaustible
treasure in heaven that no thief can reach nor moth destroy. For where
your treasure is, there also will your heart be. Luke 12:32-34
Piety
"Ready or not, here I come!" A game from my childhood had that
refrain. We were playing "Hide and go Seek." The games of childhood
give way to the game of life. We quickly learn to be ready for the
challenges of life if we are going to be successful. Still, there are
all too many things we need to do that we put off to the last minute.
A foreseen deadline of life gets good preparation. Trivial things can
be put off to the last minute because it does not matter whether we
are ready or not. There are deadlines in exams that we have to face
when time runs out on us before we have finished. There is a deadline
in life we all have. We do not know the day or the hour when the Lord
will call for us. Some deadlines require all of life to be prepared
for. The death bed meditation is a powerful meditation of the first
week of the Spiritual Exercises because it asks us to look at what we
are doing with our responsibilities of life to see whether what we
would do knowing out life is over is what we have done with our lives.
Piety is the being ready to meet our maker with the job of life done
as best we can. What would I wish to change when I look back at my
behavior with the light of the last judgment? Such a searching look
frees us to store up in heaven inexhaustible treasures.
Study
The kingdom of heaven belongs to our generosity with others. Our
parable is about the responsibilities of life and how we behave. The
invitation is to sell what we have and to give alms. Thus we prepare
for ourselves the inexhaustible treasure of God's gratitude for what
we do in the name of Christ. On earth, gratitude is a mixed bag. It
can be stolen. Moths can get at our garments. Thieves can take what we
value. Children can break our expensive toys of life. Everything and
anything can go wrong. There is no sure thing for us short of heaven.
Where our treasure is, there our hearts are. Our best study is an
examination of conscience where we look with the eyes of faith at what
we are about in our lives and where we have our treasures stored.
Action
Heaven is our goal. Our good actions can bring us to a better
homeland. Homeland Security is what Faith makes possible for us. Faith
is "the realization of what is hoped for and evidence of things not
seen." It is our faith in a God who is true to his promises that gives
us the wherewithal in our hearts to do what needs to be done to make
heaven our true homeland. The architect and maker of our bank in
heaven is God. We call upon God by calling his name during our day. If
I call the name of God ten times during the day, a good action would
be to make it a hundred times. If I drink the chalice of salvation
once a week on Sunday, I can make the time to do it during the week.
Psalm 86 talks about the return we shall make to the Lord for all the
good things he has done for us. The best return we can make to the God
of our salvation is to give our lives more fully to his Son. Jesus is
"the Way, The Truth and the Light" of our journey home to God. The
more Christ we have in our lives, the readier we will be for the hour
we do not know when the Son of Man will come to call us home.
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Topic: Because of Your Little Faith (August 7)
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/a47c648f2fce4741
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From: "dxfaro@cox.net" <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Aug 06 05:32PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/7e255f857cd443d
Saturday of the Eighteenth Week in Ordinary Time
The rash man has no integrity; but the just man, because of his faith,
shall live. Habakkuk 2:4
Jesus rebuked him and the demon came out of him, and from that hour
the boy was cured. Then the disciples approached Jesus in private and
said, "Why could we not drive it out?" He said to them, "Because of
your little faith. Amen, I say to you, if you have faith the size of a
mustard seed, you will say to this mountain, 'Move from here to
there,' and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you." Matthew
17:18-20
Piety
Dear Lord,
…I have to move to a busier place to teach, preach and counsel because
it is to that active task that you have called me. But I pray that I
will keep you in the center of my thoughts, words and actions. I pray
that your presence, which I have sensed so strongly here, will also
guide my life…, but most of all I pray that I will keep taking the
time to be with you and you alone.
Let the knowledge of your love fill my heart and mind so that I can
witness to you freely, openly, and courageously, and bring your peace
and your joy to the many [people] who are searching – knowingly and
unknowingly – for you. Amen.
Henri J. M. Nouwen, "Saturday, August 11," from A Cry for Mercy:
Prayers from the Genesee (New York: Image Books Doubleday), page 137.
Study
When a speaker wants to get the audience to remember a key point, he
or she will repeat it – sometimes more than twice – to drive home that
point. What gets repeated must be important. Today's lesson about the
primacy of faith comes up again and again in the Hebrew Bible and in
the New Testament.
Jesus wants us to ACT with the FAITH of those he encountered. The
faith of the Roman centurion. The faith of the woman at the well. The
faith of the woman whose daughter was hemorrhaging. Again and again he
says that we must act. With just a little bit of faith, we can move
mountains and make the seemingly impossible possible.
For in it is revealed the righteousness of God from faith to faith; as
it is written, "The one who is righteous by faith will live." Romans
1:17
And that no one is justified before God by the law is clear, for "the
one who is righteous by faith will live." Galatians 3:11
But my just one shall live by faith, and if he draws back I take no
pleasure in him." We are not among those who draw back and perish, but
among those who have faith and will possess life. Hebrews 10:38-39
In fact, Paul's Letter to the Hebrews recounts the many deeds
throughout Biblical History which were accomplished through the living
faith of those throughout time: Now faith is the assurance of things
hoped for, the conviction of things not seen. For by it the men of old
received divine approval. By faith we understand that the world was
created by the word of God, so that what is seen was made out of
things which do not appear. (Hebrews 11:1-3)
Actions motivated by faith are set off from action which are motivated
or compelled by law. Biblical teachings ask each of us to go beyond
the mere requirement of law and to act out of faith and love.
Yet faith alone is not always enough. Faith is completed by the good
works we accomplish in life. As we learn in the Letter from St. James:
Was not Abraham our father justified by works, when he offered his son
Isaac upon the altar? You see that faith was active along with his
works, and faith was completed by works, and the scripture was
fulfilled which says, "Abraham believed God, and it was reckoned to
him as righteousness"; and he was called the friend of God. You see
that a man is justified by works and not by faith alone. And in the
same way was not also Rahab the harlot justified by works when she
received the messengers and sent them out another way? For as the body
apart from the spirit is dead, so faith apart from works is dead.
James 2:21-26
Action
The just woman and man, because of her and his faith, shall live. What
does your faith inspire you to do today?
Visit the sick?
Call a lonely friend?
Send money to a favorite charity?
Volunteer to help feed the poor?
Become a "Big Brother" or "Big Sister?"
Adopt a stray animal from a shelter?
Send Palanca?
Sing for Mañanita?
Attend the closing?
Sponsor a candidate?
Welcome a new Cursillista to your group reunion?
Live in God's friendship and service?
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