AUGUST 5 Eleventh
Sunday after Pentecost (18th S
Ord Time)
NATIONAL SISTERS DAY
Philippians, Chapter
1, Verse 12-14
12 I want you to know, brothers, that
my situation has turned out rather to advance the gospel, 13 so that my imprisonment has become
well known in Christ throughout the whole praetorium* and
to all the rest, 14
and so that the majority of the brothers, having taken encouragement in the
Lord from my imprisonment, dare more than ever to proclaim the word fearlessly.
Christ is preached fearlessly by those who have known
Him. You cannot preach Christ unless you know Him. Paul was always a warrior
and as such he sought as Saul, before he met Christ, to kill any who got in the
way of his purpose and then when Saul met Christ and became Paul; he discovered
to live is Christ. To the warrior his purpose is to serve his king.
1.
A
purpose will motivate you.
2.
A
purpose will keep your priorities straight.
3.
A
purpose will develop your potential.
4.
A
purpose will give you power to live in the present.
5.
A
purpose will help you evaluate your progress.
Daily dying to our sins and rising to new life in Christ.
GOSPEL Mark vii 31-37
At
that time, Jesus, going out of the coasts of Tyre, came by Sidon to the Sea of
Galilee, through the midst of the coasts of Decapolis. And they bring to Him
one deaf and dumb: and they besought Him that He would lay His hand upon him. And
taking him from the multitude apart, He put His fingers into his ears, and
spitting, He touched his tongue: and looking up to heaven, He groaned, and said
to him: Ephpheta, which is, Be thou opened. And immediately his ears were opened,
and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he spokeright. And He charged them
that they should tell no man. But the more He charged them, so much the more a
great deal did they publish it: and so much the more did they wonder, saying:
He hath done all things well; He hath made both the deaf to hear, and the dumb
to speak.
Who among Christians are like the
deaf and dumb of this gospel? Those who are deaf to the voice of God, and
dumb in prayer, in the praise of God, in the defence of religion, and of the
goodname of their neighbor, and in confessing their sins.
Why did Christ take the deaf and dumb man
aside? Because He did not seek the praise of men, and at the sametime was
loath to provoke too soon the hatred of His enemies.
Why did Jesus put His fingers into the
ears of the deaf and dumb, and spitting, touch his tongue? To show this unfortunate person by
signs that it was He Who freed him from his bodily evils, and that the healing
power was not the consequence of secretly given remedies but proceeded immediately
from Himself.
Why did Jesus look up to heaven and
groan?
1.
To show that He acted not as mere man, but that He had received all power from
His eternal Father.
2.
That He might thereby awaken and animate the deaf and dumb man to confidence in
His power and belief in His divine mission. Learn hence to practise the
beautiful virtue of compassion for others sufferings, and to acknowledge that
every good gift is from above.
Why did Christ charge them that
they should tell no man?
That we might learn not to seek the praise of men for our good deeds. Let us
learn to make known the works of God to His glory; for He is continually
working before our eyes everyday so many wonders, in order that we may praise
His benignity and omnipotence.
Aspiration:
O Jesus, great physician of souls, open mine ears to attend to Thy holy will;
loosen my tongue to proclaim and praise forever Thy love and goodness.
National Sister Day Facts &
Quotes
·
Studies
form Brigham Young University show that sisters give siblings better mental
health.
·
According
to the Journal of Politics, boys with sisters are more likely to become
republican. Young men who were raised with sisters are more typically more
likely to express social conservative views on attitudes about gender roles.
·
Men
with sisters are more likely to have involved interactions and be liked
significantly more by their female acquaintances than those who did not have a
sister. In short, brother benefit from having sisters by having a higher
likelihood of getting a date.
·
There
is nobody in this world that knows me better than my sister. – Tia Mowry,
American actress and model.
·
Sister
is probably the most competitive relationship within the family, but once the
sisters are grown, it becomes the strongest relationship. – Margaret Mead,
American Cultural Anthropologist.
The 8th of August will
be my sister Linda’s Birthday I hope her day is special; please pray for her
intentions.
"Read
these counsels slowly. Pause to meditate on these thoughts. They are things
that I whisper in your ear-confiding them-as a friend, as a brother, as a
father. And they are being heard by God. I won't tell you anything new. I will
only stir your memory, so that some thought will arise and strike you; and so
you will better your life and set out along ways of prayer and of Love. And in
the end you will be a more worthy soul."
40. Why that fitful character? When are you going to apply your will
to something definite? Drop that craze for foundation-stones and put the
finishing touch to just one of your projects.
·
Please
Pray for Senator
McCain and our country; asking Our Lady of Beauraing to
intercede.
[2] John Maxwell, The Maxwell Leadership
Bible.
[3]Goffine’s
Devout Instructions, 1896.
[5]http://www.escrivaworks.org/book/the_way-point-1.htm
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