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, through the example of our lives, God will awaken vocations.
The Brothers’ Community and Marists, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Alice Springs

That, through the example of our lives, God will awaken vocations.
The Brothers’ Community and Marists, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Alice Springs

Today's Gospel. The Feast of the Holy Innocents.

Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they are no more.

Matthew 2: 18.
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Matthew 2: 13 - 18.

13 After they had left, suddenly the angel of the Lord appeared to Joseph in a dream and said, 'Get up, take the child and his mother with you, and escape into Egypt, and stay there until I tell you, because Herod intends to search for the child and do away with him.'

14 So Joseph got up and, taking the child and his mother with him, left that night for Egypt,

15 where he stayed until Herod was dead. This was to fulfil what the Lord had spoken through the prophet: I called my son out of Egypt.

16 Herod was furious on realising that he had been fooled by the wise men, and in Bethlehem and its surrounding district he had all the male children killed who were two years old or less, reckoning by the date he had been careful to ask the wise men.

17 Then were fulfilled the words spoken through the prophet Jeremiah:

18 A voice is heard in Ramah, lamenting and weeping bitterly: it is Rachel weeping for her children, refusing to be comforted because they are no more.

Breaking Open The Word

As holy defender of God’s rights and of his images, the church must cry out.

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

We Must Cry Out.

For the church, the many abuses
of human life, liberty, and dignity
are a heartfelt suffering.
The church, entrusted with the earth’s glory,
believes that in each person is the Creator’s image
and that everyone who tramples it offends God.
As holy defender of God’s rights and of his images,
the church must cry out.
It takes as spittle in its face,
as lashes on its back,
as the cross in its passion,
all that human beings suffer,
even though they be unbelievers.
They suffer as God’s images.

There is no dichotomy between man and God’s image.
Whoever tortures a human being,
whoever abuses a human being,
whoever outrages a human being
abuses God’s image,
and the church takes as its own
that cross, that martyrdom.

St. Oscar Romero, The Violence of Love. Taken from Give Us This Day.

St. Oscar Romero (1917–1980) became archbishop of San Salvador.

That, through the example of our lives, God will awaken vocations.
The Brothers’ Community and Marists, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Alice Springs

Marist Source

We are inspired by the vision and lives of Marcellin and his first disciples.

# WFR 15.

That, through the example of our lives, God will awaken vocations.
The Brothers’ Community and Marists, Our Lady of the Sacred Heart College, Alice Springs

To Ponder

What are the places or situations – and who are the people - that have gifted me with stability? How has God touched me through these?

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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