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

For all those to whom we minister.
Marists at St Frances de Sales College, Leeton.

For all those to whom we minister.
Marists at St Frances de Sales College, Leeton.

Today's Gospel

It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. I came to call not the upright, but sinners.

Mark 2: !7.
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Mark 2: 13-17.

13 He went out again to the shore of the lake; and all the people came to him, and he taught them.

14 As he was walking along he saw Levi the son of Alphaeus sitting at the tax office, and he said to him, 'Follow me.' And he got up and followed him.

15 When Jesus was at dinner in his house, a number of tax collectors and sinners were also sitting at table with Jesus and his disciples; for there were many of them among his followers.

16 When the scribes of the Pharisee party saw him eating with sinners and tax collectors, they said to his disciples, 'Why does he eat with tax collectors and sinners?'

17 When Jesus heard this he said to them, 'It is not the healthy who need the doctor, but the sick. I came to call not the upright, but sinners.'

Breaking Open The Word

Now be earnest about it and say: We are not Christians. Let this become ordinary language usage and you will have a world-transformation.

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

Get Up and Follow.

Everything is naked and exposed to the eyes of him to whom we must render an account.

When we see someone holding an axe wrong and chopping in such a way that he hits everything but the block of firewood, we do not say, “What a wrong way for the woodcutter to go about it,” but we say, “That man is not a woodcutter.”

Now for the application. When we see thousands and thousands and millions of Christians whose lives do not resemble in the remotest way what—and this is decisive—the New Testament calls a Christian, is it not tampering with the meaning to talk as one does in no other situation and say: “what a mediocre way, what a thoroughly inexpressive way these Christians have.” In any other situation would one not say, “These people are not Christians.”

Now be earnest about it and say: We are not Christians. Let this become ordinary language usage and you will have a world-transformation.

Søren Kierkegaard, in Provocations. Taken from Give Us This Day.

Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855) was a Danish philosopher, theologian, poet, social critic, and religious author who is widely considered to be the first existentialist philosopher.

For all those to whom we minister.
Marists at St Frances de Sales College, Leeton.

Marist Source

Our pastoral ministry to older youth and young adults emphasises their maturing in personal faith and commitment…we initiate them into Marist apostolic spirituality and how to live it within the local church…

# IFMC 183.

For all those to whom we minister.
Marists at St Frances de Sales College, Leeton.

To Ponder

Who do you sit down with at table? Do you make time to be with people who are different to yourself? What do they teach you?

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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