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Theo Tigno•
7/19/2010 2:53 pm
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Tuesday, July 20th 2010 |
Matthew 12: 46-50
While Jesus was speaking to the crowds, his mother and his brothers appeared outside, wishing to speak with him. Someone told him, "Your mother and your brothers are standing outside, asking to speak with you." But he said in reply to the one who told him, "Who is my mother? Who are my brothers?" And stretching out his hand toward his disciples, he said, "Here are my mother and my brothers. For whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother."
Dawg's Thought:
Today's prayer intention - for those who have nowhere to go during these brutal summer months.
Today's reflection comes from Mother Angelica:
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Such a reward for conforming to a perfect Will is beyond our imagination. This privilege is for every Christian. We need not envy the Apostles, for our opportunities are as great as theirs. The difference between us and those first followers of Jesus lies not in a lack of opportunities or grace, but in a lack of union with God's Will.
The purpose of our existence is to become a clear image of Jesus by the perfect conformity of our Will to God. Jesus told us, "I have come from heaven not to do my own Will but to do the Will of the One who sent me." We see Jesus saying over and over that His one goal was to do the Father's Will.
God has given us the gift of free will for the purpose of freely choosing Him above ourselves. It is a matter of preference--a matter of love. Love motivates our Will either in the direction of God or ourselves. The successful man is not the one who makes a million dollars, but the one who succeeds in uniting his Will to God. Without God, the successful man may be a slave to his own whims, society and the world while the man whose Will ever lives in God is free.
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Take care and God Bless.
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