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 continue to grow in spiritual maturity.
For Marists attending the Footsteps 1 Programme at Mittagong.

That we continue to grow in spiritual maturity.
For Marists attending the Footsteps 1 Programme at Mittagong.

Today's Gospel. Saint Augustine.

You are like whitewashed tombs that look handsome on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead.

Matthew 23: 27.
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Matthew 23: 27 - 32.

27 'Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look handsome on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and every kind of corruption.

28 In just the same way, from the outside you look upright, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

29 'Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build the sepulchres of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the upright,

30 saying, "We would never have joined in shedding the blood of the prophets, had we lived in our ancestors' day."

31 So! Your own evidence tells against you! You are the children of those who murdered the prophets!

32 Very well then, finish off the work that your ancestors began.

Breaking Open The Word

The word of God is now at work in you who believe.

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

Even Now.

The word of God is now at work in you who believe.

Here in the hermitage, returning necessarily to beginnings, I know where my beginning was, having the Name and the Godhead of Christ preached in Corpus Christi Church. I heard and believed. And I believe that He has called me freely, out of pure mercy, to His love and salvation, and that at the end (to which all is directed by Him) I shall see Him after I have put off my body in death and have risen together with Him. And that at the last day “all flesh shall see the salvation of God.”

What this means is that my faith is an eschatological faith, not merely a means of penetrating the mystery of the divine presence, resting in Him now. Yet because my faith is eschatological it is also contemplative, for I am even now in the Kingdom and I can even now “see” something of the glory of the Kingdom and praise Him who is King. I would be foolish, then, if I lived blindly, putting all “seeing” off until some imagined fulfillment (for my present seeing is the beginning of a real and unimaginable fulfillment!). Thus contemplation and eschatology are one in Christian faith and in surrender to Christ. They complete each other and intensify each other. It is by contemplation and love that I can best prepare myself for the eschatological vision—and best help all the Church, and all [humankind], to journey toward it.

Thomas Merton, Journal, 1964. 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 continue to grow in spiritual maturity.
For Marists attending the Footsteps 1 Programme at Mittagong.

Marist Source

Our attitudes towards young people find their inspiration in Mary.

# WFR 27.

That we continue to grow in spiritual maturity.
For Marists attending the Footsteps 1 Programme at Mittagong.

To Ponder

'Full of dead men’s bones '- an old song says it well: "afraid to live, afraid to die"; stuck in a moment, unable to evolve, to Live.

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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