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 model our lives on the Handmaid of the Lord.
For all Marists contributing to the life and work of Australian Marist Solidarity.

That we model our lives on the Handmaid of the Lord.
For all Marists contributing to the life and work of Australian Marist Solidarity.

Today's Gospel

I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!

Luke 12: 49.
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Luke 12: 49 - 53.

49 'I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!

50 There is a baptism I must still receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!

51 'Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

52 For from now on, a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three;

53 father opposed to son, son to father, mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.'

Breaking Open The Word

We really do not know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. . . .

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

Rooted and Grounded in Love.

If we know how great is the love of Jesus for us we will never be afraid to go to Him in all our poverty, all our weakness, all our spiritual wretchedness and infirmity. Indeed, when we understand the true nature of His love for us, we will prefer to come to Him poor and helpless. We will never be ashamed of our distress. Distress is to our advantage when we have nothing to seek but mercy. . . .

The surest sign that we have received a spiritual understanding of God’s love for us is the appreciation of our own poverty in the light of His infinite mercy.

We must love our own poverty as Jesus loves it. It is so valuable to Him that He died on the Cross to present our poverty to His Father, and endow us with the riches of His own infinite mercy.

We must love the poverty of others as Jesus loves it. We must see them with the eyes of His own compassion. But we cannot have true compassion on others unless we are willing to accept pity and receive forgiveness for our own sins.

We really do not know how to forgive until we know what it is to be forgiven. . . . [And it] is our forgiveness of one another that makes the love of Jesus for us manifest in our lives, for in forgiving one another we act towards one another as He has acted towards us.

Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude. Taken from Give Us This Day.

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) was a Trappist monk of the Abbey of Gethsemani. He is widely esteemed as a writer and spiritual master.

That we model our lives on the Handmaid of the Lord.
For all Marists contributing to the life and work of Australian Marist Solidarity.

Marist Source

Our hearts go out to the poor and they become our brothers and sisters, and truly our friends.

#WFR 24.

That we model our lives on the Handmaid of the Lord.
For all Marists contributing to the life and work of Australian Marist Solidarity.

To Ponder

'Bring fire on earth...' Does my faith make a real difference to the kind of person I am and to the kind of life I lead?

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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