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 Brother Ernesto Sánchez, our Superior General
Marists at St Francis de Sales Regional College, Leeton, NSW

For Brother Ernesto Sánchez, our Superior General
Marists at St Francis de Sales Regional College, Leeton, NSW

Today's Gospel

From the fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.

Luke 6:39-45
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Luke 6:39-45

Jesus told his disciples a parable, “Can a blind person
guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit? No
disciple is superior to the teacher; but when fully trained,
every disciple will be like his teacher. Why do you notice
the splinter in your brother’s eye, but do not perceive the
wooden beam in your own? How can you say to your
brother, ‘Brother, let me remove that splinter in your eye,’
when you do not even notice the wooden beam in your own
eye? You hypocrite! Remove the wooden beam from your
eye first; then you will see clearly to remove the splinter in
your brother’s eye.
“A good tree does not bear rotten fruit, nor does a rotten
tree bear good fruit. For every tree is known by its own
fruit. For people do not pick figs from thorn bushes, nor do
they gather grapes from brambles. A good person out of
the store of goodness in his heart produces good, but an
evil person out of a store of evil produces evil; for from the
fullness of the heart the mouth speaks.”

The Gospel of the Lord.

Breaking Open The Word

Producing Good Fruit

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

“Look, I just want to say this for your own good. . . .”
Do these or similar words press the “BEWARE” button
for us? The answer probably depends on [the people] speaking
and the tone in which they speak. If we recognize them
as people of good heart and great integrity, we will be willing
to listen to constructive criticism; if we sense destructive
superiority and self-righteousness in their words, we do not
want them as our teachers. What Jesus teaches, he lives, and
in today’s continuation of the Sermon on the Plain he is the
wisdom teacher who voices his expectation of this same integrity
in his disciples. If we are blind to our own shortcomings,
yet judgmental about those of our sisters and
brothers, we have no right to guide them with our advice; we
will only succeed in dragging them down into the metaphorical
“ditch” rather than helping them out of their difficulties.
. . . Using the familiar biblical language of a tree whose
quality is judged by the good or bad fruit it produces, Jesus
teaches his listeners that the quality of people is judged by
their actions. There is more involved here than “spiritual eye
surgery” to get rid of the judgmental log that blinds us. It is
a matter of the biblical heart, that deepest personal reality,
the storehouse of our dreams and desires.

Sr. Verna Holyhead, Welcoming the Word in Year C

Verna A. Holyhead, SGS (d. 2011), was an Australian Sister of the
Good Samaritan of the Order of St. Benedict.

For Brother Ernesto Sánchez, our Superior General
Marists at St Francis de Sales Regional College, Leeton, NSW

Marist Source

The parable (of the Good Samaritan) eloquently presents the
basic decision we need to make in order to rebuild our wounded world.
In the face of so much pain and suffering, our only course is to imitate the
Good Samaritan. The parable shows us how a community can be rebuilt
by men and women who identify with the vulnerability of others.

Pope Francis in “Fratelli Tutti”, No. 67

For Brother Ernesto Sánchez, our Superior General
Marists at St Francis de Sales Regional College, Leeton, NSW

To Ponder

Place before God what is on your heart 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