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 may live in simplicity and detachment.
Brothers and Marists at the Lavalla200 community at Mt Druitt.

That we may live in simplicity and detachment.
Brothers and Marists at the Lavalla200 community at Mt Druitt.

Today's Gospel.

How I wish it were blazing already!

Luke 12: 49.
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Luke 12: 49 - 53.

49 'I have come to bring fire to the earth, and how I wish it were blazing already!

50 There is a baptism I must still receive, and what constraint I am under until it is completed!

51 'Do you suppose that I am here to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but rather division.

52 For from now on, a household of five will be divided: three against two and two against three;

53 father opposed to son, son to father, mother to daughter, daughter to mother, mother-in-law to daughter-in-law, daughter-in-law to mother-in-law.'

Breaking Open The Word

It is necessary that we should esteem the human less than the divine.

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

Not Forbidden to Love.

We will believe that the Lord took care to advise reverence for the Godhead at the same time as the grace of piety. He said, “You will love the Lord your God, and you will love your neighbor” [Luke 10:27]. Is the present so changed as to erase the names of close kin and set affections at variance? Are we to believe that he has commanded discord within families? How is he our peace, who has made both one? How does he himself say, “My peace I give to you, my peace I leave with you” [John 14:27], if he has come to separate fathers from sons and sons from fathers by the division of households? How is he cursed who dishonors his father [cf. Deut 27:16] and devout who forsakes him?

If we observe that the first is because of religion and the second through piety, we shall think this question is simple. It is necessary that we should esteem the human less than the divine. If honor is to be paid to parents, how much more to your parents’ Creator, to whom you owe gratitude for your parents! . . . He does not say children should reject a father but that God is to be set before all. Then you have in another book, “He that loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me” [Matt 10:37]. You are not forbidden to love your parents, but you are forbidden to prefer them to God. Natural children are true blessings from the Lord, and no one must love the blessing that he has received more than God by whom the blessing, once received, is preserved.

St. Ambrose, Exposition on the Gospel of Luke. Taken from Give Us This Day.

St. Ambrose (ca. 339–397) was a lay catechumen when he was chosen to be bishop of Milan. Within one week he was baptized, confirmed, ordained, and consecrated. Ambrose became a protector of the poor, a scholar of Scripture and theology, and was responsible for innumerable conversions, most famously St. Augustine.

That we may live in simplicity and detachment.
Brothers and Marists at the Lavalla200 community at Mt Druitt.

Marist Source

Our spirituality is Marial and apostolic.

#WFR 17.

That we may live in simplicity and detachment.
Brothers and Marists at the Lavalla200 community at Mt Druitt.

To Ponder

'Do you think I came to bring peace on earth? No, I tell you, but division'. Discipleship demands hard choices. Do I have the courage to follow Jesus?

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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