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 invite young people to give themselves to something that demands passion and commitment.
The Superior General and his Council.

That we invite young people to give themselves to something that demands passion and commitment.
The Superior General and his Council.

Today's Gospel. Saint Jerome.

The least among you all is the one who is the greatest.

Luke 9: 48.
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Luke 9: 46 - 50.

46 An argument started between them about which of them was the greatest.

47 Jesus knew what thoughts were going through their minds, and he took a little child whom he set by his side

48 and then he said to them, 'Anyone who welcomes this little child in my name welcomes me; and anyone who welcomes me, welcomes the one who sent me. The least among you all is the one who is the greatest.'

49 John spoke up. 'Master,' he said, 'we saw someone driving out devils in your name, and because he is not with us we tried to stop him.'

50 But Jesus said to him, 'You must not stop him: anyone who is not against you is for you.'

Breaking Open The Word

Today’s Gospel message is one we would do well to take to heart in this climate of growing intolerance: “Whoever is not against you is for you.”

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

For and Against.

In the span of one week, at my job as a Church communications director, I had two people separately accuse me of completely opposite—and equally untrue—realities. One person sent me an online message implying I was ignorant at best and a heretic at worst for running a column in the diocesan newspaper written by a religious sister who mentioned her use of Centering Prayer. The other sent me a handwritten, anonymous screed because our newspaper had run a single image of a Latin Mass. This writer accused me of taking the entire diocese to a “pre-conciliar” time. Those two letters made me wonder how we can bring peace and unity to our world when we can’t even find it in our own Church. The beauty of our faith is that we have an almost limitless supply of prayer possibilities that offer us the opportunity to deepen our relationship with God daily, whether we do that in silence on a cushion, on our knees before a candlelit altar, or even in our sneakers on a jog through the neighborhood.

Today’s Gospel message is one we would do well to take to heart in this climate of growing intolerance: “Whoever is not against you is for you.” If we are praying and working and acting in the name of Jesus as we go about our lives, what does it matter if my way isn’t your way and vice versa? As long as we are all on The Way, we can’t go wrong. Division serves no one, least of all the One who matters most.

Mary DeTurris Poust. Taken from Give Us This Day.

Mary DeTurris Poust is director of communications for the Diocese of Albany and the author of six books on Catholic spirituality and several books of Scripture reflections. Visit her website at www.NotStrictlySpiritual.com.

That we invite young people to give themselves to something that demands passion and commitment.
The Superior General and his Council.

Marist Source

From our Family Spirit develops a spirituality that is strongly relational and affective. Marcellin’s preferred way of relating to God and to Mary were through familial terms: Jesus in his “Sacred Heart”; Mary as “Our Good Mother.”

How deeply embedded in your work is this “family spirit”?

# WFR 31.

That we invite young people to give themselves to something that demands passion and commitment.
The Superior General and his Council.

To Ponder

Prayer is only real when we begin to see and love the world as God does.

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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