When: Thursday, February 14, 2008 12:00 AM to Friday, February 15, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).
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Words of Jesus
Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew 7:7,12
If you won’t abandon Christ, He will not abandon you! As God helps his servants in a special way, he who serves God should live in great peace. There is only one condition: be friends of God and live as His children.
— St. Thomas Aquinas
Abba, Father, Lord God, O Jesus, humbled to abjection for me, teach me to humble myself for love of You. Today’s readings remind me that You are always there and if I do not abandon You, You will not abandon me. For as Jesus teaches I need to open the door, I need to ask, I need to pray. So I am prompted to think of Tuesday’s Lenten Reflection by Claudia Minden Welsz:
I asked God to take away my pride,
And God said "No."
He said it was not for Him to take away,
But for me to give up.
I asked God to make my handicapped child whole,
and God said, "No."
He said her spirit is eternal,
While her body is only temporary.
I asked God to grant me patience,
And God said, "No."
He said patience is a by-product of tribulation.
It isn’t granted – it is earned.
I asked God to give me happiness,
And God said "No."
He said He gives blessings,
Happiness is up to me.
I asked God to spare me pain,
And God said "No."
He said, "Suffering draws you apart from
Worldly cares and brings you close to Me."
I asked God to make my spirit grow,
And God said "No."
He said I must grow on my own,
But he will prune me to make it fruitful.
I asked God if He loved me,
And God said "Yes."
He gave me His only Son, who died for me,
And I will be in heaven someday
Because I believe.
I asked God to help me love others
As much as He loves me,
And God said,
"Ah, finally you have the idea."
O my Jesus, help me to be what those I love need and those in need can turn too. In the name of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, Amen.
Queen Esther, seized with mortal anguish, had recourse to the Lord. She lay prostrate upon the ground, together with her handmaids, from morning until evening, and said: "God of Abraham, God of Isaac, and God of Jacob, blessed are you. Help me, who am alone and have no help but you, for I am taking my life in my hand. As a child I used to hear from the books of my forefathers that you, O Lord, always free those who are pleasing to you. Now help me, who am alone and have no one but you, O Lord, my God.” “And now, come to help me, an orphan. Put in my mouth persuasive words in the presence of the lion and turn his heart to hatred for our enemy, so that he and those who are in league with him may perish. Save us from the hand of our enemies; turn our mourning into gladness and our sorrows into wholeness.“
1 I give thee thanks, O LORD, with my whole heart; before the gods I sing thy praise; 2 I bow down toward thy holy temple and give thanks to thy name for thy steadfast love and thy faithfulness; for thou hast exalted above everything thy name and thy word. 3 On the day I called, thou didst answer me, my strength of soul thou didst increase. 7 Though I walk in the midst of trouble, thou dost preserve my life; thou dost stretch out thy hand against the wrath of my enemies, and thy right hand delivers me. 8 The LORD will fulfil his purpose for me; thy steadfast love, O LORD, endures for ever. Do not forsake the work of thy hands.
7 "Ask, and it will be given you; seek, and you will find; knock, and it will be opened to you. 8 For every one who asks receives, and he who seeks finds, and to him who knocks it will be opened. 9 Or what man of you, if his son asks him for bread, will give him a stone? 10 Or if he asks for a fish, will give him a serpent? 11 If you then, who are evil, know how to give good gifts to your children, how much more will your Father who is in heaven give good things to those who ask him! 12 So whatever you wish that men would do to you, do so to them; for this is the law and the prophets.
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