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- From His Heart September 11, 2011 [1 Update]
http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/4905c8bba6f17a7b
- Laid the Foundation on Rock September 10, 2011 [1 Update]
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Topic: From His Heart September 11, 2011
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/4905c8bba6f17a7b
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From: The Lighthouse Keeper <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Sep 10 04:06PM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/cf8a2f56b8f8e1f5
Twenty-fourth Sunday of Ordinary Time A
By Rev. Joe McCloskey, SJ
Forgive your neighbor's injustice;
then when you pray, your own sins will be forgiven.
Could anyone nourish anger against another
and expect healing from the LORD?
Could anyone refuse mercy to another like himself,
can he seek pardon for his own sins? Sirach 28:2-4
None of us lives for oneself, and no one dies for oneself.
For if we live, we live for the Lord,
and if we die, we die for the Lord;
so then, whether we live or die, we are the Lord's.
For this is why Christ died and came to life,
that he might be Lord of both the dead and the living. Romans 14:7-9
"'Should you not have had pity on your fellow servant, as I had pity
on you?'>Then in anger his master handed him over to the torturers
until he should pay back the whole debt. So will my heavenly Father do
to you, unless each of you forgives his brother from his heart."
Matthew 18:33-35
Piety
Piety allows us to live in our need of the forgiveness of the Lord.
God accepts us as we are in the love of Christ. The Father sees the
Son in all that we have asked forgiveness. Jesus is our forgiveness.
We must be his forgiveness for each other. Paul is the model of what
our forgiveness needs to be. We need to be able to say with Paul that
it gives us great joy to fill up what is wanting to the suffering of
Christ. The suffering of Christ is the stuff our forgiveness is made.
How we use our sufferings for the sake of each other is how we enter
into the mystery of what forgiveness is all about. Peter in our gospel
enters into the question of how often we should forgive. He makes the
mistake of putting a number on how many times we ought to be
forgiving. Christ when he says seventy-seven times takes forgiveness
away from number of times into the realm of divine forgiveness. Jesus
has become one of us so that we can have the human forgiveness of God.
To be like Christ we must be forgiving people.
Study
We study Christ to learn how to be a forgiving person. Christ uses the
example of a king who forgives a great debt of his servant. The
servant does not learn from being forgiven by the king. He goes out
and beats a fellow servant who owed a lot less than what he had owed.
That is the lesson of and for our forgiveness of one another. God has
forgiven us so much more than we would ever need to forgive another.
We limit God's forgiveness for us by the poverty of our way of
forgiving others. We pray the Our Father asking to be forgiven even as
we forgive. How easy it is to say words without taking into account
their meaning. We put foolish limits on God's forgiveness for us by
how poorly we forgive one another.
Action
We need to celebrate pity for one another. It is not necessary to
force forgiveness on others. They need their anger at us for whatever
injustices we have done. It is better to ask forgiveness before we go
to the Lord's Supper. Forgiveness is their free gift to give. We
cannot force another to forgive us. Repentance is what we foster in
ourselves by making offerings for the sake of the one we hurt. It is
not frequent that an offering can be made to the one injured. We make
offering in their name to others that have need of our love. Love
covers a multitude of sin. The body of Christ is less because of our
sinfulness. The holier we are the more the Mystical Body of Christ
grows. The People of God are the Mystical Body of Christ. What we do
for one another is done for Christ. Sinfulness hurts the body of
Christ.
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Topic: Laid the Foundation on Rock September 10, 2011
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/t/60ffbc4e021cd446
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From: The Lighthouse Keeper <dxfaro@cox.net>
Date: Sep 10 06:23AM -0700
Url: http://groups.google.com/group/your-daily-tripod/msg/aad4e0179ca58183
Saturday of the Twenty-Third Week in Ordinary Time
Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners.
Of these I am the foremost.
But for that reason I was mercifully treated,
so that in me, as the foremost,
Christ Jesus might display all his patience as an example
for those who would come to believe in him for everlasting life. 1
Timothy 1:15-16
"Why do you call me, "Lord, Lord," but not do what I command?
I will show you what someone is like who comes to me,
listens to my words, and acts on them.
That one is like a man building a house,
who dug deeply and laid the foundation on rock;
when the flood came, the river burst against that house
but could not shake it because it had been well built. Luke 6:46-48
Piety
Spring and Fall: to a Young Child
Margaret, are you grieving
Over Goldengrove unleaving?
Leaves, like the things of man, you
With your fresh thoughts care for, can you?
Ah! as the heart grows older
It will come to such sights colder
By and by, nor spare a sigh
Though worlds of wanwood leafmeal lie;
And yet you will weep and know why.
Now no matter, child, the name:
Sorrow's springs are the same.
Nor mouth had, no nor mind, expressed
What héart héard of, ghóst guéssed:
It is the blight man was born for,
It is Margaret you mourn for. (by Gerard Manley Hopkins)
Study
This morning Beth and I are heading to the funeral for a mountain of a
man. Jeffrey S. Martin was a Belmont Abbey College Crusader classmate
and Alpha Phi Omega service fraternity brother back in the 1970s --
two titles that he can never shake. Over the years, he proudly bore
many other honors as a devoted husband, father, son, brother and a
Federal agent for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. Newspapers
reduce lives to a few brief sentences:
JEFFREY S. MARTIN
Federal Agent
Died unexpectedly Thursday, September 1, 2011. Jeffrey S. Martin of
Lorton, VA. Loving husband of Mary Aring-Martin; devoted father of
Patrick A. Martin; son of George E. Martin, Sr. and the late Virginia
Rose Martin; brother of George E. Martin, II, Sherry Smith and Gregery
S. Martin. Funeral Mass will be offered at St. Lawrence Catholic
Church, 6222 Franconia Road, Alexandria, VA on Saturday September 10
at 10:30 a.m. Interment private. In lieu of flowers, the family
requests memorial contributions be made to The Roger L. Von Amelunxen
Foundation at www.rogerfoundation.org.
But in our minds, hearts and souls, we will always remember so much
more than can be expressed in these short death notices.
Jeff's "life notice" was on display every day we met and for every
person he met. Not only was he a rock solid human being, his values
were laid on the foundation of the rock of ages. He was a regular
fixture at the Catholic Campus Ministry functions lead by ever jovial
Fr. Oscar.
Jeff treated everyone on campus with a gentleness and compassion which
betrayed his strapping 6 foot-plus frame. His broad shoulders were
often used literally and figuratively to carry his brothers and
sisters in their time of distress or when we faced heavy tasks. He
would bolster the blood donor suffering temporary weakness at a blood
mobile and help up his opponent on the rugby field whom he just
leveled on the way to score. Jeff also was a model of the forgiveness
exemplified in the letter from Timothy. He mercifully treated everyone
no matter what our personal sins of commission and omission.
As a leader in our fraternity, Jeff routinely got a bunch of bleary-
eyed college men and women up early on Saturday mornings to clean
parks, renovate homes of the elderly, raise money for "Jerry's Kids"
and the Muscular Dystrophy telethon, organize the aforementioned blood
drives and mentor young men through Big Brothers or the local Boy
Scout council. Certainly Jesus displayed all his patience for servants
like Jeff who truly picked up his cross every day to follow Him.
Today, we know that he shares the glory of eternal union with his
brother Jesus.
Action
Today, on this eve of the September 11th attacks, his loving family
and friends old and new will be remembering this gentle giant of a
public servant and the indelible impression he left on all those whom
he met along the way at Belmont Abbey College and beyond. Sorrows
springs are the same.
Who has made such a mark on your life? Before you lose the opportunity
to thank them for their gifts, take time today to recognize them for
what they have done in their lifetime for you.
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