Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to
be still before God.
Opening Prayer: I feel your love as you hold me to your sacred
heart, my beloved Jesus, my God, my Master, but I feel, too, the need I have of
your tenderness, and your caress because of my infinite weakness.
~Charles
de Foucauld
Scripture Reading for the Day: 1 John 4:7-21
Reading for Reflection:
This inexhaustible love
between the Father and the Son includes and yet transcends all forms of love
known to us. It includes the love of a
father and mother, a brother and sister, a husband and wife, a teacher and
friend. But it also goes far beyond the
many limited and limiting human experiences of love we know. It is a caring yet demanding love. It is a supportive yet severe love. It is a gentle yet strong love. It is a love that gives life yet accepts
death. In this divine love Jesus was
sent into the world, to this divine love Jesus offered himself on the
cross. His all-embracing love, which
epitomizes the relationship between the Father and the Son, is a divine Person,
coequal with the Father and the Son. It
has a personal name. It is called the
Holy Spirit. The Father loves the Son
and pours himself out in the Son. The
Son is loved by the Father and returns all he is to the Father. The Spirit is love itself, eternally
embracing the Father and Son.
This eternal community of love is the
center and source of Jesus’ spiritual life, a life of uninterrupted
attentiveness to the Father in the Spirit of love. (Making All Things New
by Henri J. M. Nouwen)
Reflection and Listening: silent and written
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself
Closing Prayer: O love that wilt not let me go, I rest my
weary soul in thee; I give thee back the
life I owe, that in thine oceans depths its flow may richer, fuller be. ~George
Mattheson
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