Marist Association Daily Prayer

Let us always remember that

we are in the holy presence of God

May God continue to live in our hearts

In the name of the Father,

Son and Holy Spirit

Amen

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  • Intention of the Day
  • Today's Gospel
  • Breaking Open the Word
  • Marist Source
  • Reflection
  • Meditation
  • Call to Action
  • Closing Prayer

Intention of the Day

For a sense of personal inner space.
Marists at St Teresa's Catholic College, Noosaville.

For a sense of personal inner space.
Marists at St Teresa's Catholic College, Noosaville.

Today's Gospel

It will do you less harm to lose one part of yourself than to have your whole body go to hell.

Matthew 5: 30
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Matthew 5:27-32

27 'You have heard how it was said, You shall not commit adultery.

28 But I say this to you, if a man looks at a woman lustfully, he has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

29 If your right eye should be your downfall, tear it out and throw it away; for it will do you less harm to lose one part of yourself than to have your whole body thrown into hell.

30 And if your right hand should be your downfall, cut it off and throw it away; for it will do you less harm to lose one part of yourself than to have your whole body go to hell.

31 'It has also been said, Anyone who divorces his wife must give her a writ of dismissal.

32 But I say this to you, everyone who divorces his wife, except for the case of an illicit marriage, makes her an adulteress; and anyone who marries a divorced woman commits adultery.

Breaking Open The Word

God is like that: always giving us a cue, should we forget the Word speaking deep within us.

Taken from: Give Us This Day
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Taken from: Give Us This Day

The Word that Prompts Us

I know we are within days of the summer solstice, but today’s first reading reminds me of a kindergarten Christmas play: Hardworking teachers and parents encourage, coax, and prompt from the sidelines.

On cue, a lost line finds its memory in the slender mouth of a tiny, frightened angel; a brownbearded five-year-old St. Joseph reluctantly edges closer to Mary; a shepherdess, awkwardly holding a stuffed lamb, looks stage right rather than skyward in search of an encouraging word. They hear, and therefore they speak . . . and act!

God is like that: always giving us a cue, should we forget the Word speaking deep within us. As Paul reminds the Corinthians, our lives are as earthen vessels, shaped in God’s power. Perhaps Paul is thinking of Jeremiah 18, when the prophet recalls God the potter, the one who sculpted Israel and turns us into being, day after day.

That is the grace of encouragement that comes with Christian life in baptism. That priceless treasure we hold, Christ Jesus, speaks our faith, hope, and love. Despite our fragility and fear, with confidence we profess the Incarnation, the historical manifestation of God in the flesh, still unfolding because God is always at work in us.

As we ask God in today’s Collect: may we “at your prompting discern what is right, and by your counsel do it.” It is God’s loving actions which make even stony hearts into warm clay, a golden thanksgiving overflowing from God’s blessings on each and every one of us: unguarded, overflowing, unleashed.

Fr. Guerric DeBona in Give Us This Day

Guerric DeBona, OSB, is novice/junior master at Saint Meinrad Archabbey in Indiana and professor of homiletics in the Seminary and School of Theology.

For a sense of personal inner space.
Marists at St Teresa's Catholic College, Noosaville.

Marist Source

As we pass through the different phases of life, we experience beauty and ugliness, certainty and doubt.

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For a sense of personal inner space.
Marists at St Teresa's Catholic College, Noosaville.

To Ponder.

'But I say.'

To understand what it means to follow Jesus one must look at life in Christ's way.

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Closing Prayer

All Loving God

Cultivate in us a spirituality that flows out of Marian simplicity, humility and modesty.

Release in us wellsprings of refreshment, inspiration and excitement for your work in which we share.

Help us set our gaze on those people and places most in need of Christlife,

Impel us to respond together,

And lead us to be in communion with one another, and with you.

Like Mary, we listen for your invitation,

Like Mary, we set out joyfully and in haste to the hill country of the lives of young people,

Like Mary, we build communities in ways that are Christ-centred.

All Loving God, come and live in our hearts.

 

 Amen