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

Marist's in Timor Leste and
all staff of Marist Centre Sydney

Marist's in Timor Leste and
all staff of Marist Centre Sydney

Today's Gospel

Woman, behold your son. Behold your mother.

John 17: 1-11
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John 17: 1-11

Standing by the cross of Jesus were his mother and his mother’s sister, Mary the wife of Clopas, and Mary of Magdala. When Jesus saw his mother and the disciple there whom he loved, he said to his mother, “Woman, behold, your son.” Then he said to the disciple, “Behold, your mother.” And from that hour the disciple took her into his home. After this, aware that everything was now finished, in order that the Scripture might be fulfilled, Jesus said, “I thirst.” There was a vessel filled with common wine. So they put a sponge soaked in wine on a sprig of hyssop and put it up to his mouth. When Jesus had taken the wine, he said, “It is finished.” And bowing his head, he handed over the spirit.
Now since it was preparation day, in order that the bodies might not remain on the cross on the sabbath, for the sabbath day of that week was a solemn one, the Jews asked Pilate that their legs be broken and they be taken down. So the soldiers came and broke the legs of the first and then of the other one who was crucified with Jesus. But when they came to Jesus and saw that he was already dead, they did not break his legs, but one soldier thrust his lance into his side, and immediately Blood and water flowed out.
The Gospel of the Lord.

Breaking Open The Word

Mother and Witness

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

I have an older confrere known for his jocular disposition who has a popular saying at the ready: “Be good. And if you can’t be good, hide!” The humor disguises the tragic way sin does business, a legacy of Adam and Eve. After that fruit’s first bite, we duck for cover from God, ironically under the very lush green creation the Lord made for us and our flourishing. Adam eludes the bare truth by lying, blaming others, and avoiding an honest gaze in the mirror. The shame of sin is a contagion that mutates like a virus among the children of Adam and Eve.
But John’s Gospel gives us a divine, healing reflection of God’s integrity in the light of Christ’s crucifixion and redeeming love. Jesus, though innocent and blameless of sin, is naked on the shameful cross. Rather than a place to hide, Calvary shines as a light on a cruel hill, a luminous revelation of God’s utter self-gift revealed in all its bloody transparency. In honest-to-goodness fidelity, Christ discloses God’s love as perfect gift and then, in turn, bestows his mother into the Beloved Disciple’s arms. All is visible in the veracity of God’s merciful love. Mary witnesses to the new reality of the Church as mother, coaxing us out of the hidden crossroads of sin.
Through Mary, the Church’s destiny unfolds as both mother and witness to the truth for the world. The blood and water flowing from the savior’s side become the sacraments that the Church feeds her children. Until all is made manifest in another garden.

Fr. Guerric DeBona

Guerric DeBona, OSB, is professor of homiletics and the director
of spiritual formation at Saint Meinrad Seminary and School
of Theology.

Marist's in Timor Leste and
all staff of Marist Centre Sydney

Marist Source

Marcellin Champagnat had to struggle with God’s unexpected
intervention early in his life. That God wills it – suggested by the recruiting
priest – forced him to look again at his project of life. (WFTR p. 41)

#ITF 54.

Marist's in Timor Leste and
all staff of Marist Centre Sydney

To Ponder

Placing yourself at the foot of the cross.... what is it that you hear from Jesus?

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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