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
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  • Call to Action
  • Closing Prayer

Intention of the Day

For Brothers and Marist in New Caledonia on their National Day

For Brothers and Marist in New Caledonia on their National Day

Today's Gospel

He began to send them out.

Mark 6:7-13
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Mark 6:7-13

Jesus summoned the Twelve and began to send them
out two by two and gave them authority over unclean
spirits. He instructed them to take nothing for the journey
but a walking stick—no food, no sack, no money in their
belts. They were, however, to wear sandals but not a second
tunic. He said to them, “Wherever you enter a house, stay
there until you leave. Whatever place does not welcome you
or listen to you, leave there and shake the dust off your feet
in testimony against them.” So they went off and preached
repentance. The Twelve drove out many demons, and they
anointed with oil many who were sick and cured them.

The Gospel of the Lord.

Breaking Open The Word

The Way to Be Disciples

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

Take nothing for the journey.

Temporality is a restless state of being, whereby we jump
ahead to the next want, event, or activity to keep us in the
center of, as my now-adult nephew Zach said in his younger
years, “where the action is.” It is a childish longing for more
that is never quenched.
The eternal, on the other hand, leads us to quiet, where
we find our soul’s rest in God alone. It is in prayer that we
discover our role as disciples is simply to be God’s messengers.
To bring others to him through the love we share. The
same love that God has for his son Jesus.
Jesus prayed submersing himself in the quiet of the desert,
mountainside, and garden. Thus refreshed and invigorated
by communion with his father, he returned to the real “action,”
teaching us the message of eternal life.
Prayer is the state of being from which our true longing for
the eternal emanates. Prayer is what leads us to discipleship,
to live as joyful, grateful, and generous stewards. “Love others
and pass along my message of joy,” is all God asks. Steeped in
his love, our desire for the temporal fades to a whisper.
We teach the message in many ways, not all of us through
words. Like the apostles we act it out by visiting the sick and
imprisoned, feeding and clothing the hungry, comforting the
lost, and even rejoicing with other Christians. Putting on this
face of Christ, we are natural evangelizers. The fruits of the
Holy Spirit—among them kindness, joy, goodness, and love—
are magnets that attract others to our Christ and thereby God.
Abandoning my soul to love is the only way to live a life of
discipleship, a life of stewardship. Temporal desires are the obstacles
I must shed as the weight that slows my travels to him.
What a balancing act this life on earth is. A scale seems
an inadequate image to depict living in Christ. Rather, it is
the constant interplay of faith, prayer, and response to God
that molds us into willing disciples.

E. Jane Rutter, adapted from Seasons of the Spirit

E. Jane Rutter is a writer and national fundraising and development
consultant. She was formerly the director of stewardship and
development for the Diocese of Jefferson City, Missouri.

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Marist Source

The discernment which we entered into was a carefully planned and a deliberately structured process of contemplative listening and dialogue.

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To Ponder

Prayer is what leads us to discipleship, to live as joyful, grateful, and generous stewards.

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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