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I will smell the fragrance and taste the infinite sweetness and charm of the Divinity, and of the soul, of its virtues and of everything there.
- St Ignatius of Loyola, Spiritual Exercises 124
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Liturgically, summer is ordinary time, when we let go of the drama of Lent and Passiontide and Easter and the big, extravagant feasts: Ascension, Pentecost, the Sacred Heart, Corpus Christi. All of these are, in some measure, feasts of the body, where we begin to come to terms with the absence of the earthly body of Christ and begin to get the measure of what ‘This is my body’ means in day to day terms. The body of Christ is discovered in the body of believers, in the other who believes and lives out a similar faith in Christ. The body of Christ is revealed and savored in the human, loving, passionate heart of Jesus and in my own capacity to love and be loved in and through the Eucharist.
This is where we let go, spiritually speaking, of the safety rail, and swim out into the deep. This is the time of the flowering of faith, when we set about ‘fleshing out’ the mysteries of the incarnation. Now we walk by faith and not by sight, growing into a deeper awareness of how the everyday is redolent of the presence of God.
-Gemma Simmonds CJ
📸Annual August Beach Mass
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I am the Light of the world. – Jesus
*You* are the light of the world. – also Jesus
What is it like to think of Jesus (and yourself) in this way, as an expression of Light, illumination, needed by something in our souls as much as we notice it in our bodies at these changes of season? How do you embody light? What do you see in Jesus that offers radiant sunlight into a world that needs just that?
When he names the light in us (in his Sermon on the Mount in Matthew 5), it is with the injunction to let.it.shine. And yet, for so many of us, our learning was that we should doubt ourselves, hide in some way, not be so dazzling. What would it look like, as this season of summer warms up, to let yourself “shine”, to let the light flow through and reflect off of you in ways that are beautiful and lifegiving and nourishing?
Consider spending some time in the light today, both receiving its goodness, and also wondering about how receiving light energizes something in you that then is enabled to offer the same kind of brilliant goodness out into the world around you. Something that reflects the Source of the Light itself. Where does that take you?
-via Anam Cara Ministries
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Gospel of the day: Matthew 9:14-17
The disciples of John approached Jesus and said,
“Why do we and the Pharisees fast much,
but your disciples do not fast?”
Jesus answered them, “Can the wedding guests mourn
as long as the bridegroom is with them?
The days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
and then they will fast.
No one patches an old cloak with a piece of unshrunken cloth,
for its fullness pulls away from the cloak and the tear gets worse.
People do not put new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise the skins burst, the wine spills out, and the skins are ruined.
Rather, they pour new wine into fresh wineskins, and both are preserved.”
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My grace is enough for you’
Sunday’s readings encourage us to place our whole trust in God’s grace, for God’s power is at its strongest even when we are most weak.
In the Gospel, Jesus has left Capernaum, the scene of many ‘mighty deeds,’ and headed for the home where he grew up. Once in Nazareth there is a change of mood. While his listeners are impressed by stories about him, they can’t get over the fact that Jesus is one of their own, another worker, just like each of them, with sawdust in his hair and dirt under his fingernails.
Let’s keep our eyes firmly fixed on our Lord, till we recognize his mercy.
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Friends, our Gospel for today is the simple but magnificent story of the conversion of Matthew (Matthew 9:9–13). I urge you to read it and meditate upon it this week, for it’s about you. The Bible says that Jesus told Matthew, “Follow me.” The call of Jesus is meant to get into your mind, and then past your mind into your body, and then through your body into your life, into your most practical decisions.
And then we hear that Matthew “got up and followed him.” The verb used here in the Greek is the same verb used to describe the Resurrection of Jesus from the dead: Matthew rose. Conversion means a transition into a higher life, arising from a preoccupation with the goods of the world and a reorientation to the things of God.
Then we hear what happened after Matthew’s conversion: “While he was at table in his house, many tax collectors and sinners came and sat with Jesus and his disciples.” This deeply annoys the Pharisees, who ask of Jesus’ disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?” The answer is that Jesus loves sinners, and he doesn’t require perfection before he approaches them.
-Bishop Robert Barron
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It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood
📸These torch like blooms in the prayer garden recollect the fire of the spirit and also look like Lady Liberty’s torch!
Have a safe and happy Independence Day and enjoy the parade!
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I made a friend in the mental hospital from Coronado (HIPPA privacy I will keep his name private) who nick named me “lady liberty” in shapr mesa vista as I fought for patients rights for dental floss ( that is still a work in progress for jails too) and the right to vote in the hospital 🏥 during presidential primaries since we are smart and did not need conservertership. His parents moved him, nock named Uncle Sam he called himself, out of sharp mesa as rhey kept stabbing him and peole like me with stuff to calm down not care about church ⛪️ etc and his mom found that casa palmera just wanted her money so she moved him to Costa mesa rehab. I send an AMEN out to the sacred ❤️ Facebook ✍️ writer! “The fire 🔥 of the spirit” so connected with the Bible and nature. Happy July 4th freedom to worship god and freedom to write and video blog believing the miracles of Jesus!
“Four score and seven years ago,” Abraham Lincoln reminded Americans, “our fathers brought forth on this continent, a new nation, conceived in Liberty, and dedicated to the proposition that all men are created equal.”
Happy Independence Day!
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We do not know... how can we know the way?”
Courageous master of the awkward question,
You spoke the words the others dared not say
And cut through their evasion and abstraction.
Oh doubting Thomas, father of my faith,
You put your finger on the nub of things
We cannot love some disembodied wraith,
But flesh and blood must be our king of kings.
Your teaching is to touch, embrace, anoint,
Feel after Him and find Him in the flesh.
Because He loved your awkward counter-point
The Word has heard and granted you your wish.
Oh place my hands with yours, help me divine
The wounded God whose wounds are healing mine.
-M. Guite
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