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 remain true to our spirit of poverty and detachment.
Marists at Chanel College, Gladstone, QLD.

That we remain true to our spirit of poverty and detachment.
Marists at Chanel College, Gladstone, QLD.

Today's Gospel.

Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him everyone is alive.

Luke 20: 38.
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Luke 20: 27 - 38.

27 Some Sadducees -- those who argue that there is no resurrection -- approached him and they put this question to him,

28 'Master, Moses prescribed for us, if a man's married brother dies childless, the man must marry the widow to raise up children for his brother.

29 Well then, there were seven brothers; the first, having married a wife, died childless.

30 The second

31 and then the third married the widow. And the same with all seven, they died leaving no children.

32 Finally the woman herself died.

33 Now, at the resurrection, whose wife will she be, since she had been married to all seven?'

34 Jesus replied, 'The children of this world take wives and husbands,

35 but those who are judged worthy of a place in the other world and in the resurrection from the dead do not marry

36 because they can no longer die, for they are the same as the angels, and being children of the resurrection they are children of God.

37 And Moses himself implies that the dead rise again, in the passage about the bush where he calls the Lord the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac and the God of Jacob.

38 Now he is God, not of the dead, but of the living; for to him everyone is alive.'

Breaking Open The Word

He (Jesus) was the same but he was different, and because he was both, our futures may turn out to be as astounding as his.

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

Not by Reason or Experience.

We will all be wed to God—the God who is able to make children out of dust, out of dry bones, out of the bits and pieces of genuine love we are able to scrape up over a lifetime of trying—“for he is God not of the dead, but of the living, for to him all of them are alive.”

This is absolutely all Jesus had to say on the subject of resurrection. You can search all four of the gospels and you will find no more teaching on it. What you will find is that in short order he went on to test the waters for himself. He surrendered life as we know it, and when those who loved him came to perfume his body, they could not find him anywhere. When he showed up later, he showed up with a body. He ate fish, broke bread, cooked breakfast. He also walked through locked doors and vanished while people were looking right at him. He was the same but he was different, and because he was both, our futures may turn out to be as astounding as his.

I am not trying to convince anyone. How could I? Resurrection cannot be supported by reason any more than it can be supported by experience. All we have are the stories, based on the unreasonable experience of people we never knew— and the choice of whether to believe them or not. . . .

Any way you look at it, the choice is basically this: what would you rather be wrong about? Death? Or life?

Barbara Brown Taylor, Home By Another Way. Taken from Give Us This Day.

Barbara Brown Taylor is a best-selling author, professor, and Episcopal priest.

That we remain true to our spirit of poverty and detachment.
Marists at Chanel College, Gladstone, QLD.

Marist Source

Daily experiences are special places of encounter with God. We find God’s presence in creation, in the events of every day: work and relationships, silence and noise, joys and sorrows, achievements and anguish, tragedy and death.

Where am I likely in my work and relationships, to encounter God today?

# WFR 54.

That we remain true to our spirit of poverty and detachment.
Marists at Chanel College, Gladstone, QLD.

To Ponder

“He is God of the living” – who are you becoming? What is emerging in your deepest self?

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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