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

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For a sense of personal inner space.
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Today's Gospel

This is the joy I feel, and it is complete. He must grow greater, I must grow less.

John 3: 29-30.
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John 3: 22-30.

22 After this, Jesus went with his disciples into the Judaean countryside and stayed with them there and baptised.

23 John also was baptising at Aenon near Salim, where there was plenty of water, and people were going there and were being baptised.

24 For John had not yet been put in prison.

25 Now a discussion arose between some of John's disciples and a Jew about purification,

26 so they went to John and said, 'Rabbi, the man who was with you on the far side of the Jordan, the man to whom you bore witness, is baptising now, and everyone is going to him.'

27 John replied: 'No one can have anything except what is given him from heaven.

28 'You yourselves can bear me out. I said, "I am not the Christ; I am the one who has been sent to go in front of him."

29 'It is the bridegroom who has the bride; and yet the bridegroom's friend, who stands there and listens to him, is filled with joy at the bridegroom's voice. This is the joy I feel, and it is complete.

30 He must grow greater, I must grow less.

Breaking Open The Word

To the extent that we know our identity as beloved creatures of God and intimate disciples of Jesus we will be able to acknowledge Jesus as God ....

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

Increasing and Decreasing.

Those committed to the twelve steps of AA for their recovery from alcoholism or drug addiction have a succinct way of summarizing the task of recovery. That task is simply to realize, “There is a higher power and I am not it.” Though not a twelve-stepper, John the Baptist said the same thing in different words.

John the Baptist was such a dominant presence in the early Church that the author of the Gospel of John has to labor to move him to the side so Jesus can take center stage. Fortunately, John the Baptist slides over willingly and eagerly, asserting, “I am not the Messiah” and “Behold, the Lamb of God” (John 1:20, 36). Now, in his last direct words to his disciples, John trumpets, “He must increase; I must decrease” (John 3:30). John embodies the gift Jesus gives, according to the First Letter of John: “discernment to know the one who is true (1 John 5:20).”

John knew who he wasn’t because he so deeply knew who he was, “the voice of one crying out in the desert” (John 1:23). To the extent that we know our identity as beloved creatures of God and intimate disciples of Jesus we will be able to acknowledge Jesus as God and move ourselves to the side. Otherwise, we will keep plopping down as though we are the God of most every situation, knowing neither who we are nor who we aren’t.

Dick Rice. Taken from Give Us This Day.

Dick Rice is a spiritual director in Minneapolis / St. Paul. He has recently coauthored The Twelve Steps Meet the Gospel.

For a sense of personal inner space.
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Marist Source

As lay Christians we are attentive to the signs of the times, attentive to what the Spirit tells us through history, society and people…we live in continual dialogue with the world….

# GRST 39.

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To Ponder

Listening to and for God’s voice is a gift we can give ourselves every day in prayer. What is God asking you to pay attention to today?

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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