Archive for September 9th, 2007

Readings & Prayer – Who has learned thy counsel, unless thou hast given wisdom and sent thy holy Spirit from on high? So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

September 9, 2007

When: Sunday, September 09, 2007 8:45 AM-9:45 AM.

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Dear Lord God, I believe! But when I weigh and measure myself I find I come up short. And even as I think I continue to know You more, or at least spend more time trying to get to know You. I continue to stumble and in doing so see how far short I have fallen. My prayer and hope is that through Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior I fall forward towards You. Today’s readings talk about Wisdom.  As You know I have recently read the book after listening to the audio version several times about the Aramaic words spoken by Jesus. While I open my mind while I listen and read to such writings, and realize the abuses and horrors that have been served in Your name and in the name of Jesus Christ, I remain true to the belief that You are the One God, the I am, the Source of Source, the God of Abraham and Mohammed, the Father of Jesus Christ who is One with You and whom through the Holy Spirit resides in the heart of all human beings to remind us and help us find our way to You as spiritual beings. And while I seek to know You more, I may never really know You while in human form, while I want to feel closer this human body, may never let me. So I must continue to seek, to practice Your presence, always accepted that the mystery is just that and I cannot understanding, I just have to believe. So today I ask You in Jesus name and for the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world, Amen.
 
What do you possess if you possess not God?
— St. Augustine
 
13 For what man can learn the counsel of God? Or who can discern what the Lord wills? 14 For the reasoning of mortals is worthless, and our designs are likely to fail, 15 for a perishable body weighs down the soul, and this earthy tent burdens the thoughtful mind. 16 We can hardly guess at what is on earth, and what is at hand we find with labor; but who has traced out what is in the heavens? 17 Who has learned thy counsel, unless thou hast given wisdom and sent thy holy Spirit from on high? 18 And thus the paths of those on earth were set right, and men were taught what pleases thee, and were saved by wisdom."


Psalm 90:3-6, 12-13, 14-17
3 Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!" 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. 5 Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning: 6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. 12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. 13 Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on thy servants! 14 Satisfy us in the morning with thy steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad as many days as thou hast afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil. 16 Let thy work be manifest to thy servants, and thy glorious power to their children. 17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.

Philemon 9-10, 12-17
9 yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you — I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus — 10 I appeal to you for my child, Ones’imus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment. 12 I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. 13 I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel; 14 but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will. 15 Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever, 16 no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. 17 So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.

Luke 14:25-33
25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, 26 "If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, `This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace. 33 So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
 

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Readings & Prayer – Who has learned thy counsel, unless thou hast given wisdom and sent thy holy Spirit from on high? So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom.

September 9, 2007

When: Sunday, September 09, 2007 8:45 AM-9:45 AM.

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Dear Lord God, I believe! But when I weigh and measure myself I find I come up short. And even as I think I continue to know You more, or at least spend more time trying to get to know You. I continue to stumble and in doing so see how far short I have fallen. My prayer and hope is that through Jesus Christ my Lord and Savior I fall forward towards You. Today’s readings talk about Wisdom.  As You know I have recently read the book after listening to the audio version several times about the Aramaic words spoken by Jesus. While I open my mind while I listen and read to such writings, and realize the abuses and horrors that have been served in Your name and in the name of Jesus Christ, I remain true to the belief that You are the One God, the I am, the Source of Source, the God of Abraham and Mohammed, the Father of Jesus Christ who is One with You and whom through the Holy Spirit resides in the heart of all human beings to remind us and help us find our way to You as spiritual beings. And while I seek to know You more, I may never really know You while in human form, while I want to feel closer this human body, may never let me. So I must continue to seek, to practice Your presence, always accepted that the mystery is just that and I cannot understanding, I just have to believe. So today I ask You in Jesus name and for the sake of His sorrowful passion, have mercy on us and on the whole world, Amen.
 
What do you possess if you possess not God?
— St. Augustine
 
13 For what man can learn the counsel of God? Or who can discern what the Lord wills? 14 For the reasoning of mortals is worthless, and our designs are likely to fail, 15 for a perishable body weighs down the soul, and this earthy tent burdens the thoughtful mind. 16 We can hardly guess at what is on earth, and what is at hand we find with labor; but who has traced out what is in the heavens? 17 Who has learned thy counsel, unless thou hast given wisdom and sent thy holy Spirit from on high? 18 And thus the paths of those on earth were set right, and men were taught what pleases thee, and were saved by wisdom."
3 Thou turnest man back to the dust, and sayest, "Turn back, O children of men!" 4 For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday when it is past, or as a watch in the night. 5 Thou dost sweep men away; they are like a dream, like grass which is renewed in the morning: 6 in the morning it flourishes and is renewed; in the evening it fades and withers. 12 So teach us to number our days that we may get a heart of wisdom. 13 Return, O LORD! How long? Have pity on thy servants! 14 Satisfy us in the morning with thy steadfast love, that we may rejoice and be glad all our days. 15 Make us glad as many days as thou hast afflicted us, and as many years as we have seen evil. 16 Let thy work be manifest to thy servants, and thy glorious power to their children. 17 Let the favor of the Lord our God be upon us, and establish thou the work of our hands upon us, yea, the work of our hands establish thou it.
9 yet for love’s sake I prefer to appeal to you — I, Paul, an ambassador and now a prisoner also for Christ Jesus — 10 I appeal to you for my child, Ones’imus, whose father I have become in my imprisonment. 12 I am sending him back to you, sending my very heart. 13 I would have been glad to keep him with me, in order that he might serve me on your behalf during my imprisonment for the gospel; 14 but I preferred to do nothing without your consent in order that your goodness might not be by compulsion but of your own free will. 15 Perhaps this is why he was parted from you for a while, that you might have him back for ever, 16 no longer as a slave but more than a slave, as a beloved brother, especially to me but how much more to you, both in the flesh and in the Lord. 17 So if you consider me your partner, receive him as you would receive me.
25 Now great multitudes accompanied him; and he turned and said to them, 26 "If any one comes to me and does not hate his own father and mother and wife and children and brothers and sisters, yes, and even his own life, he cannot be my disciple. 27 Whoever does not bear his own cross and come after me, cannot be my disciple. 28 For which of you, desiring to build a tower, does not first sit down and count the cost, whether he has enough to complete it? 29 Otherwise, when he has laid a foundation, and is not able to finish, all who see it begin to mock him, 30 saying, `This man began to build, and was not able to finish.’ 31 Or what king, going to encounter another king in war, will not sit down first and take counsel whether he is able with ten thousand to meet him who comes against him with twenty thousand? 32 And if not, while the other is yet a great way off, he sends an embassy and asks terms of peace. 33 So therefore, whoever of you does not renounce all that he has cannot be my disciple.
 

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Prayer & Readings – For the Lord is gracious and merciful …. Patient and generous in his mercy, he does not give in to human impatience

September 9, 2007

When: Saturday, September 08, 2007, 11:00 PM to Sunday, September 09, 2007, 12:00 AM.

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Dear Lord God, I look back at the last forty eight hours with regret and disappointment; regret for the lost opportunity and disappointment in the lack of love and understanding, if not tolerance I have shown. How easily I let the same things upset and anger me over and over. Why do I expect others to change, it is I that must become ripe. Why to I allow myself to become discouraged over the same things. Clearly in my listening and being I expose myself to these things without being ready and prepared to be separate from being; to be present while being in the now; to be understanding while being in the now; to be compassionate while being in the now. For in the now I am not affected by the past; in the now I am not trying to change what has already happened; in the now I am not stopped from loving for what tomorrow may or may not bring. For it is in the now with You that I can create, empower and be abundant in faith, hope and love. O Lord that you would keep me in the now, and separate me as far as the east is from the west from yesterday while teaching me to use what I see in the now with You to develop and maintain eyes of faith for tomorrow. O Lord forgive my stubborn mind and  hard heart. For the sake of My Lord Jesus’ sorrowful passion have mercy on me and on my love ones, Amen.
 
For the Lord is gracious and merciful and prefers the conversion of a sinner rather than his death. Patient and generous in his mercy, he does not give in to human impatience but is willing to wait a long time for our repentance. – St. Jerome
 
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; 16 for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.

Psalm 100:2-5
2 Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! 3 Know that the LORD is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name! 5 For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
Luke 5:33-39
33 And they said to him, "The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink." 34 And Jesus said to them, "Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days." 36 He told them a parable also: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old garment; if he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, `The old is good.’"
 

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Prayer & Readings – For the Lord is gracious and merciful …. Patient and generous in his mercy, he does not give in to human impatience

September 9, 2007

When: Saturday, September 08, 2007, 11:00 PM to Sunday, September 09, 2007, 12:00 AM.

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Dear Lord God, I look back at the last forty eight hours with regret and disappointment; regret for the lost opportunity and disappointment in the lack of love and understanding, if not tolerance I have shown. How easily I let the same things upset and anger me over and over. Why do I expect others to change, it is I that must become ripe. Why to I allow myself to become discouraged over the same things. Clearly in my listening and being I expose myself to these things without being ready and prepared to be separate from being; to be present while being in the now; to be understanding while being in the now; to be compassionate while being in the now. For in the now I am not affected by the past; in the now I am not trying to change what has already happened; in the now I am not stopped from loving for what tomorrow may or may not bring. For it is in the now with You that I can create, empower and be abundant in faith, hope and love. O Lord that you would keep me in the now, and separate me as far as the east is from the west from yesterday while teaching me to use what I see in the now with You to develop and maintain eyes of faith for tomorrow. O Lord forgive my stubborn mind and  hard heart. For the sake of My Lord Jesus’ sorrowful passion have mercy on me and on my love ones, Amen.
 
For the Lord is gracious and merciful and prefers the conversion of a sinner rather than his death. Patient and generous in his mercy, he does not give in to human impatience but is willing to wait a long time for our repentance. – St. Jerome
 
15 He is the image of the invisible God, the first-born of all creation; 16 for in him all things were created, in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or principalities or authorities — all things were created through him and for him. 17 He is before all things, and in him all things hold together. 18 He is the head of the body, the church; he is the beginning, the first-born from the dead, that in everything he might be pre-eminent. 19 For in him all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell, 20 and through him to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, making peace by the blood of his cross.
2 Serve the LORD with gladness! Come into his presence with singing! 3 Know that the LORD is God! It is he that made us, and we are his; we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. 4 Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give thanks to him, bless his name! 5 For the LORD is good; his steadfast love endures for ever, and his faithfulness to all generations.
33 And they said to him, "The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink." 34 And Jesus said to them, "Can you make wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them? 35 The days will come, when the bridegroom is taken away from them, and then they will fast in those days." 36 He told them a parable also: "No one tears a piece from a new garment and puts it upon an old garment; if he does, he will tear the new, and the piece from the new will not match the old. 37 And no one puts new wine into old wineskins; if he does, the new wine will burst the skins and it will be spilled, and the skins will be destroyed. 38 But new wine must be put into fresh wineskins. 39 And no one after drinking old wine desires new; for he says, `The old is good.’"
 

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