Daily Thoughts: “Someday, after
mastering the winds, the waves, the tides and gravity, we shall harness for God
the energies of love, and then, for a second time in the history of the world,
man will have discovered fire.” (Fr. Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J.)
I have always liked this quote from Fr. Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin, S.J. and I think it ties into the thinking of Jesus in
today’s Gospel (Matt. 22: 1-14).
The story in the Gospel today is about
the coming of the Kingdom of God. It is about the end time. Who will accept God’s
invitation? Who will be ready? All are invited but do we accept the invitation?
Are we ready to enter the banquet of eternal life?
The invited guests get caught up in the
things of the world that they think are more important. One is not prepared,
not ready. We to sometime get caught up in all the things the world defines as
important and we lose sight of what God finds important. We think there is
always tomorrow to get ready. If we think this way we will find ourselves just
like the invited guests and the person not appropriately dressed, outside.
However, if we can tap into God’s energy, if we can accept God’s invitation and
be ready to enter the Kingdom we will not find ourselves outside in the end
when it comes!
Have a great Thursday everyone and try
to live today in a joy filled way!
Daily Prayer: Grant, O God, that we may never fall away in
success or in failure; that we may not be prideful in prosperity nor dejected
in adversity. Let us rejoice only in what unites us and sorrow only in what
separates us. May we strive to please no one or fear to displease anyone except
you, our God. May we see always the things that are eternal and never those
that are only temporal. May we shun any joy that is without you and never seek
any that is beside you. Loving God, may we delight in any work we do for you
and tire of any rest that is apart from you. Gracious God, let us direct our
hearts towards you, and in our failings, let us always seek forgiveness with
the firm purpose of being better people. Amen! (Adapted from a prayer by St. Thomas Aquinas)
A Runner’s Thoughts: “Sweat cleanses
from the inside. It comes from places a shower will never reach.” (George
Sheehan – From Runner’s World) We might
say that prayer is the sweat of the spiritual life and it too cleanses from
within and it touches places no rituals can reach. So if we pray while we run
we can cleanses our total self!
Daily Blessing: Happy Thursday
everyone! I hope your day has started well? It looks like another beautiful day
here in Long Beach!
My prayer of blessing today is adapted
from the Irish tradition - May God bless all of you today so the road rise up
to meet you and makes your journeys swift and easy. May the wind be always at
your back. May the sun shine warm upon your face. And if the rain has to fall may
it be soft upon the fields and upon you. And may you be truly blessed by God
holding you in the palm of his hand through this day and always!
Have a great day everyone! May it truly be
blessed with many wonderful experiences, may gifted and loving people and perhaps
even a piece of chocolate or an ice cream treat! Oh go ahead it is still summer
you can work on those extra pounds in the fall! Peace in Christ’s Passion…Fr.
Paul
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