One Walk

When: Friday, February 29, 2008 12:00 AM to Saturday, March 01, 2008 12:00 AM (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada).

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Words of Jesus

'you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' The second is this, `You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'

Mark 12:30-31

Every man's treasure is that which he desires. If it is based on earthly ambitions, its acquisition makes men not blessed but wretched. But many people use their wealth as a tool of devotion. By distributing what might be superfluous to support the poor, they are amassing imperishable riches.

— Pope St. Leo the Great

Abba, Father, Lord God, thank You for showing me again that You walk with me. O how I pray I would be able to stay in each moment aware of that presence so that I can feel, see and react as Jesus would, according to His Sacred Heart in truth and with love. O that You would continue to bless me and enlarge my territory, keeping me from evil and from causing pain. That You would liken my heart to that of Jesus' and that the Holy Spirit would help me follow Your will. For at the end of each day that is what I hold most dear – did I serve You, did I act in a way that reflected Your presence within me. For after of 40 years of doing it my way, thinking I could judge and listening to the counsel of man and measuring myself against the ways under the sun; I now know just how foolish I have been. So now I truly seek to walk accordingly to the words Jesus spoke in Luke 12:22-32, but need Your constant help to overcome the doubts the walking under the sun creates. Hear this prayer and as the Palmist so often writes delivery me out from under thumb of man and my enemies, place my feet on solid ground and strengthen me for battle so I will never again bring shame to You through my actions. This I ask in the name of the father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, Amen.

Hosea 14:2-10<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Hos&ch=14&bv1=2&ev1=10>

2 Take with you words and return to the LORD; say to him, "Take away all iniquity; accept that which is good and we will render the fruit of our lips. 3 Assyria shall not save us, we will not ride upon horses; and we will say no more, `Our God,' to the work of our hands. In thee the orphan finds mercy." 4 I will heal their faithlessness; I will love them freely, for my anger has turned from them. 5 I will be as the dew to Israel; he shall blossom as the lily, he shall strike root as the poplar; 6 his shoots shall spread out; his beauty shall be like the olive, and his fragrance like Lebanon. 7 They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow, they shall flourish as a garden; they shall blossom as the vine, their fragrance shall be like the wine of Lebanon. 8 O E'phraim, what have I to do with idols? It is I who answer and look after you. I am like an evergreen cypress, from me comes your fruit. 9 Whoever is wise, let him understand these things; whoever is discerning, let him know them; for the ways of the LORD are right, and the upright walk in them, but transgressors stumble in them.

Psalm 81:6-11, 14, 17<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Ps&ch=81&bv1=6&ev1=11&bv2=14&ev2=14&bv3=17&ev3=17>

6 "I relieved your shoulder of the burden; your hands were freed from the basket. 7 In distress you called, and I delivered you; I answered you in the secret place of thunder; I tested you at the waters of Mer'ibah. [Selah] 8 Hear, O my people, while I admonish you! O Israel, if you would but listen to me! 9 There shall be no strange god among you; you shall not bow down to a foreign god. 10 I am the LORD your God, who brought you up out of the land of Egypt. Open your mouth wide, and I will fill it. 11 "But my people did not listen to my voice; Israel would have none of me. 14 I would soon subdue their enemies, and turn my hand against their foes.

Mark 12:28-34<http://www.ewtn.com/vbible/search.asp?abbr=Mark&ch=12&bv1=28&ev1=34>

28 And one of the scribes came up and heard them disputing with one another, and seeing that he answered them well, asked him, "Which commandment is the first of all?" 29 Jesus answered, "The first is, `Hear, O Israel: The Lord our God, the Lord is one; 30 and you shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind, and with all your strength.' 31 The second is this, `You shall love your neighbor as yourself.' There is no other commandment greater than these." 32 And the scribe said to him, "You are right, Teacher; you have truly said that he is one, and there is no other but he; 33 and to love him with all the heart, and with all the understanding, and with all the strength, and to love one's neighbor as oneself, is much more than all whole burnt offerings and sacrifices." 34 And when Jesus saw that he answered wisely, he said to him, "You are not far from the kingdom of God." And after that no one dared to ask him any question.

Lenten Reflections<http://origin.ewtn.com/faith/lent/>

Pope Benedict XVI Encyclical Letter<http://www.vatican.va/holy_father/benedict_xvi/encyclicals/documents/hf_ben-xvi_enc_20071130_spe-salvi_en.html>

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