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Today's Scripture is suitable to use with Imaginative Contemplation or Lectio Divina
Stilling: Come into the presence of God and still yourself
Grace: Pray that in these unprecedented times we share with joy God's mission of loving the world.
Luke 10:1-11 HCSB
Luke 10:1-11 HCSB
Sending Out the Seventy
Sending Out the Seventy
After this, the Lord appointed 70 others, and He sent them ahead of Him in pairs to every town and place where He Himself was about to go.
He told them: “The harvest is abundant, but the workers are few.
Therefore, pray to the Lord of the harvest to send out workers into His harvest.
Now go; I’m sending you out like lambs among wolves.
Don’t carry a money-bag, traveling bag, or sandals; don’t greet anyone along the road.
Whatever house you enter, first say, ‘Peace to this household.’
If a son of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; but if not, it will return to you.
Remain in the same house, eating and drinking what they offer, for the worker is worthy of his wages.
Don’t be moving from house to house.
When you enter any town, and they welcome you, eat the things set before you.
Heal the sick who are there, and tell them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near you.’
When you enter any town, and they don’t welcome you, go out into its streets and say, We are wiping off as a witness against you even the dust of your town that clings to our feet.
Know this for certain: The kingdom of God has come near.’
Conversation: Have a talk with Jesus about what has struck you during this meditation, does it have implications for your life and the mission you are called to fulfill?
Finish with a final prayer such as the Lord's Prayer/Our Father
Prayer:
As fear grips our country, let us choose love.
And during this time when we may not be able to physically wrap our arms around each other, let us yet find ways to be the loving embrace of God to our neighbours. Amen.
- Fr. Michael Graham, S.J.
A Thought for Today
A Thought for Today
God is eternal newness.
God is eternal newness.
He impels us constantly to set out anew, to pass beyond what is familiar, to the fringes and beyond.
He takes us to where humanity is most wounded,
where men and women, beneath the appearance of a shallow conformity,
continue to seek an answer to the question of life’s meaning.
God is not afraid! He is fearless!
He is always greater than our plans and schemes.
Unafraid of the fringes, he himself became a fringe (cf. Phil 2:6-8; Jn 1:14).
So if we dare to go to the fringes, we will find him there; indeed, he is already there.
Jesus is already there, in the hearts of our brothers and sisters, in their wounded flesh,
in their troubles and in their profound desolation.
He is already there, there, and say to them, ‘The kingdom of God has come near to you.’
Pope Francis from Gaudete et exsultate 135
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