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 God’s Love will overcome our human limitations.
For those attending the Marist Association Local Coordinators' Conference in Sydney.

That God’s Love will overcome our human limitations.
For those attending the Marist Association Local Coordinators' Conference in Sydney.

Today's Gospel

You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

John 15: 14.
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John 15: 9-17.

9 I have loved you just as the Father has loved me. Remain in my love.

10 If you keep my commandments you will remain in my love, just as I have kept my Father's commandments and remain in his love.

11 I have told you this so that my own joy may be in you and your joy be complete.

12 This is my commandment: love one another, as I have loved you.

13 No one can have greater love than to lay down his life for his friends.

14 You are my friends, if you do what I command you.

15 I shall no longer call you servants, because a servant does not know the master's business; I call you friends, because I have made known to you everything I have learnt from my Father.

16 You did not choose me, no, I chose you; and I commissioned you to go out and to bear fruit, fruit that will last; so that the Father will give you anything you ask him in my name.

17 My command to you is to love one another.

Breaking Open The Word

To be a friend of Jesus is to have as our sole reason for living the accomplishment of the Father’s will in us and through us.

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

Steadfastly Loyal.

Jesus calls us friends insofar as we go to him, cling to him, hang onto his words, scrutinize his deeds, his attitudes, his sense of values, in order to know the Father and do his will.

To be a friend of Jesus is to have as our sole reason for living the accomplishment of the Father’s will in us and through us. This is the way Jesus was.

Jesus is our Way because he refused to have any way of his own except what the Father ordained for him; our Truth because he did not stand on anything as coming from himself but only as shown him by the Father; our Life because he was utterly selfless, an emptiness for the Father’s love.

Nearly everyone (perhaps we have to say “everyone,” at least to begin with), in setting out to climb the mountain to meet God, is really after something for self. In so far as our poor, blind seeking is genuine, God is able to work to purify our motivation. This must cost us bitterly.

A fundamental resolution which, if we can hold on to it hour after hour, will leave us completely open to him and certain of our goal, is simply that God shall have all, everything he asks moment by moment.

Nothing shall matter to me any more. I have ceased to be important to myself.

I stay rooted in the heart of Jesus, drawing on the endless resources of my Way, Truth and Life—my Friend. He is steadfastly loyal to me; and on my side I must never let him down. This is possible only when I live in his heart and let him share his Father with me. This is “leaning on the Beloved.”

Sr. Ruth Burrows, Living Love. Taken from Give Us This Day.

Sr. Ruth Burrows, a Carmelite nun at Quidenham Monastery in Norfolk, England, is the author of several best-selling books on spirituality and prayer.

That God’s Love will overcome our human limitations.
For those attending the Marist Association Local Coordinators' Conference in Sydney.

Marist Source

Marcellin was no stranger to the power of the Spirit. Along with his fellow Marists of the Society of Mary he was convinced that the Spirit was inspiring them to find new ways of being present as Church in an age of religious disbelief.
In all the events of his life Jesus shows us the Father’s love, compassion and mercy.

# ITF 92.

That God’s Love will overcome our human limitations.
For those attending the Marist Association Local Coordinators' Conference in Sydney.

To Ponder

God’s love has the power to renew and transform me and the whole of creation. How will I respond? Do I take my responsibilities seriously?

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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