given, thursday

Thursday, July 10

Come to Stillness: Take a few minutes to allow your mind and heart to be still before God.

Opening Prayer: Our Father, here I am, at your disposal, your child, to use me to continue your loving the world, by giving Jesus to me and through me, to each other and the world.  Let us pray for each other as we allow Jesus to love in us and through us with the love with which His Father loves him. (Seeking the Heart of God by Mother Teresa)

Scripture Reading for the Day: Isaiah 61:1-6

Reading for Reflection:

 

The love of our neighbor is the love which comes down from God to man.  It precedes that which rises from men to God.  God is longing to come down to those in affliction.  As soon as a soul is disposed to consent, though it were the last, the most miserable, the most deformed of souls, God will precipitate himself into it in order, through it, to look and listen to the afflicted.  Only as time passes does the soul become aware he is there.  But, though it finds no name for him, wherever the afflicted are loved for themselves alone, it is God who is present. (Waiting for God by Simon Weil)

Reflection and Listening: silent and written

Prayer: for the church, for others, for myself

         

Closing Prayer: Christ has no body now on earth but yours; yours are the only hands with which he can do his work, yours are the only feet with which he can go about the world, yours are the only eyes through which his compassion can shine forth upon a troubled world.  Christ has no body now on earth but yours. 

                                                                          ~Teresa of Avila