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

For deceased Brothers, parents, relatives, pupils, colleagues and benefactors.
Marists at St Joseph’s School, Northam, WA.

For deceased Brothers, parents, relatives, pupils, colleagues and benefactors.
Marists at St Joseph’s School, Northam, WA.

Today's Gospel. 1st Sunday of Advent

Therefore, you too must stand ready because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Matthew 24: 44.
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Matthew 24: 37 - 44.

37 'As it was in Noah's day, so will it be when the Son of man comes.

38 For in those days before the Flood people were eating, drinking, taking wives, taking husbands, right up to the day Noah went into the ark,

39 and they suspected nothing till the Flood came and swept them all away. This is what it will be like when the Son of man comes.

40 Then of two men in the fields, one is taken, one left;

41 of two women grinding at the mill, one is taken, one left.

42 'So stay awake, because you do not know the day when your master is coming.

43 You may be quite sure of this, that if the householder had known at what time of the night the burglar would come, he would have stayed awake and would not have allowed anyone to break through the wall of his house.

44 Therefore, you too must stand ready because the Son of man is coming at an hour you do not expect.

Breaking Open The Word

In truth, Advent is the road of the spiritual life, the pathway all of us must take if we wish to get to heaven.

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

A Pilgrimage of Stillness.

Advent is a short season, but it is the long road of a soul from Nazareth to Bethlehem. It is such a short distance as we are accustomed to thinking of distances. Yet it is a road into infinity, into eternity; it has a beginning, but no end. In truth, Advent is the road of the spiritual life, the pathway all of us must take if we wish to get to heaven. It is the place from which we must start if we do not want to miss our destination. We must start with a fiat that re-echoes Mary’s fiat. A fiat that each of us should say in the quiet of our hearts, and preferably at eventide when all creation is still.

Let us then arise and shake the sleep from our eyes, the sleep of our emotions run amuck, the sleep of indifference, of tepidity, of self-pity, of fighting God. Let us arise from that sleep with its dark nightmares, and journey to Bethlehem. But let us understand that Bethlehem is our own souls, hearts, minds.

Advent is a time of standing still, and yet making a pilgrimage. A pilgrimage in which we don’t use our feet. A pilgrimage in which we stand still and yet walk a thousand miles across the world . . . So let’s enter, you and I, into the pilgrimage that doesn’t take us from home. Ours is a journey of the spirit, which is a thousand times harder than a journey of the feet. Let us go.

Catherine de Hueck Doherty, in Grace in Every Season. Taken from Give Us This Day.

Catherine de Hueck Doherty (1896–1985) was a Russian-born aristocrat who dedicated her life to “the gospel without compromise.” Author of numerous books, she established the Madonna House in Combermere, Ontario.

For deceased Brothers, parents, relatives, pupils, colleagues and benefactors.
Marists at St Joseph’s School, Northam, WA.

Marist Source

The crucified Christ is the sign and deepest expression of God who is love.

# WFR 22.

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Marists at St Joseph’s School, Northam, WA.

To Ponder

‘Keep awake therefore…’ – What helps me to maintain a conscious, aware existence? What practices put me in touch with the presence of God?

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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