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

That we give preference to the poor.
The Brothers' Community at Eastwood.

That we give preference to the poor.
The Brothers' Community at Eastwood.

Today's Gospel

Anyone who welcomes a little child such as this in my name, welcomes me.

Mark 9: 37.
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Mark 9: 30-37.

30 After leaving that place they made their way through Galilee; and he did not want anyone to know,

31 because he was instructing his disciples; he was telling them, 'The Son of man will be delivered into the power of men; they will put him to death; and three days after he has been put to death he will rise again.'

32 But they did not understand what he said and were afraid to ask him.

33 They came to Capernaum, and when he got into the house he asked them, 'What were you arguing about on the road?'

34 They said nothing, because on the road they had been arguing which of them was the greatest.

35 So he sat down, called the Twelve to him and said, 'If anyone wants to be first, he must make himself last of all and servant of all.'

36 He then took a little child whom he set among them and embraced, and he said to them,

37 'Anyone who welcomes a little child such as this in my name, welcomes me; and anyone who welcomes me, welcomes not me but the one who sent me.'

Breaking Open The Word

We should respect all people for the simple fact that they happen to be God's people.

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

Because He Knows Our Names.

This world does not respect people because they are people. It respects people because they are influential, because they are important. . . .

The people who are not important - who respects the people who are not important? Who speaks to them, who cares for them? That is why all over the world so many children run around half-dressed and half-fed. This world lacks interest in people, in its people.

Jesus said: ' Nobody among you should be called master, or teacher, or father.' When they asked him who was the most important, he called a small, smelly, unwashed street boy over and said to them: 'This one.'

This Jesus, our universal king, showed us that our whole attitude should change, that our world should change in a revolutionary way, that we should respect all people for the simple fact that they happen to be God's people. That we should respect all people, because they are his sheep, the lean ones and the fat ones. That we should respect all people, because Jesus knows their names. . . .

That is his power, that is his kingdom, knowing their names. He is not interested in their cars, in the quality of their clothes, in their degrees, in their prizes and awards, in their grades and insignias, in their functions and training and success. He knows their names. He knows them, and he wishes them all well, and all they need.

And that is how we should behave, and that is why the world should change, in the East, in the West, in the North, and in the South. . . . That is how he enables us to see the world as it should be, an oikoumene, a humanly inhabited world, where there is a place and time for everybody. A world in which people will not only be with each other, but for each other.

Fr. Joseph Donders, Jesus the Stranger. Taken from Give Us This Day.

Fr. Joseph G. Donders (1929- 2013), a member of the Missionaries of Africa, spent fifty-six years in Italy, Kenya, the United States, and the Netherlands. He taught philosophy and theology in Esch (Netherlands), Nairobi, and at Washington Theological Union in Washington, DC.

That we give preference to the poor.
The Brothers' Community at Eastwood.

Marist Source

Marcellin's relationship with God, combined with his knowledge of his limitations explains his unbounded confidence in God. The depth of this trust amazed those who worked with him, and scandalised some who judged his actions as reckless...

Marist discipleship may at times ask great courage from us also.

#WFR 17.

That we give preference to the poor.
The Brothers' Community at Eastwood.

To Ponder

'Last of all, servant of all'- where's the start and end of a circle? In mystic-mind master and servant are one and the same.

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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