Readings of the Day
RB 73 This Rule Only a Beginning of Perfection
Mass: 1 Jn 2:18-21; Resp Ps 96; Jn 1:1-8
ALL THINGS CAME TO BE THROUGH HIM, AND WITHOUT HIM NOTHING CAME TO BE. WHAT CAME TO BE THROUGH HIM WAS LIFE, AND THIS LIGHT WAS THE LIGHT OF THE HUMAN RACE; THE LIGHT SHINES IN DARKNESS, AND THE DARKNESS HAS NOT OVERCOME IT.
(Jn 1:3-5)
On this last day of 2019, one might consider the following for reflection.
Christmas is a season for song, for God's love reaches from heaven to earth and earth to heaven in the Incarnation. Let us spend this last day of the year in profound thanksgiving and praise for the extraordinary gift of our salvation in Jesus Christ.
(Magnificat, Prayer for the Morning, October 31, 2019)
It is beautiful to stand before the nativity scene, and there to entrust our lives to the Lord, to speak to Him about the people and situations we care about, to take stock with Him of the year that is ending, to share our expectations and concerns.
(Pope Francis, Twitter, December 31, 2019)
And let us pray for one another, that we foster good zeal with fervent love: at home, in community, at work or school, and amongst friends, neighbors, and strangers.
Just as there is a wicked zeal of bitterness which separates from God and leads to hell, so there is a good zeal which separates from evil and leads to God and everlasting life. This, then, is the good zeal which monks must foster with fervent love. They should each to be the first to show respect to the other (Rm 12:10), supporting with greatest patience one another's weaknesses of body or behavior, and earnestly competing in obedience to one another. No one is to pursue what she judges better for herself, but instead, what she judges better for someone else. To their fellow monks they show the pure love of brothers or sisters; to God, loving fear; to their abbot unfeigned and humble love. Let them prefer nothing whatever to Christ, and may he bring us all together to everlasting life.
(Rule of Saint Benedict, Ch 72. The Good Zeal of Monks)
POPE SAINT SYLVESTER I,
PRAY FOR US.
© Gertrude Feick 2019
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