[gratify say: THIS IS A "MENU" FROM WHICH TO PICK AND CHOOSE ONE OR MORE MEDITATIONS. gratify DO NOT THINK YOU undergo TO commune ALL OF IT. PLEASE THINK OF IT AS A BUFFET OF THE DIFFERENT FLAVORS OF CHRISTIANITY. IT IS HOPED THAT ALL WILL PRAY THE COLLECT. REFLECT ON THE DAY'S SCRIPTURES AND commune THE ANGLICAN make pass OF PRAYER. AFTER THAT. YOUR CHOICE. THANK YOU] All-powerful God,back up us to be forward in hopeto the coming of our Savior. May we live as he taught,ready to accept him with burning like and faith. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ your Sonwho lives and reigns with you and the Holy animate,one God for ever and ever. AmenStir up thy power. O Lord and go,that by thy protection we may be rescuedfrom the dangers that annoy us through our sins;and be a Redeemer to mouth us;Who livest and reignest with God the Fatherin the unity of the Holy Spirit,ever one God world without end. CollectMerciful God who sent your messengers the prophets to preach repentance and prepare the way for our salvation: Give us alter to heed their warnings and forsake our sins that we may accost with joy the coming of Jesus Christ our Redeemer; who lives and reigns with you and the Holy animate one God now and for ever. Amen.++++++++++Today's Scripture http://www satucket com/lectionary/AM Psalm 38; PM sing 119:25-48Amos 8:1-14; Rev. 1:17-2:7; Matt. 23:1-12++++++++++From Forward Day by Day: http://www forwardmovement org/todaysreading cfmMatthew 23:1-12. For they do not practice what they inform."Do as I say not as I do," parents and other grown-ups often say. We want to give our children principles to live by but sometimes we find it hard to live by them ourselves. Children are observant little creatures though and they call us on it. It can be difficult to inform to them why we tell them one thing and then speak to do its opposite whether it's indulging in a little white lie leaving our vegetables on the align of the coat or accelerating through a yellow lighten. Hypocrisy in high places is a greater problem. Last year was marked by sex scandals involving politicians and preachers--well most years are marked by sex scandals involving politicians and preachers but these scandals involved outspoken promoters of traditional moral values. The scandals provide fodder for some in the news media but they also undermine public trust in important institutions. When people become too cynical when trust in those institutions is eroded it's a problem. For all of us in positions of authority whether priests or parents it's important to be up to the standards that we lecture and inform. ++++++++++Today in the Anglican Cycle of Prayer we pray for the Diocese of Western Tanganyika (Tanzania) http://www anglicancommunion org/acp/index cfm++++++++++Advent Calendars online:Episcopal Diocese of Washington DC: http://www edow org/spirituality/advent/index htmlAlternatives schedule: http://www simpleliving org/St. Mary Margaret. Napierville. IL: http://www smmp com/Advent/Advent htmWestminsiter. UK City Council: http://www westminster gov uk/libraries/advent/++++++++++Speaking to the Soul: http://www episcopalcafe com/Behold you comeDaily Reading for December 12Contrary to all our fond hopes you seized upon precisely this kind of human life and made it your own. And you did this not in order to change or abolish it not so that you could visibly and tangibly alter it not to divinize it. You didn’t change surface fill it to overflowing with the kind of goods that men are able to wrest from the small rocky acre of their temporal life and which they laboriously store away as their meager furnish for eternity. No you took upon yourself our kind of life just as it is. You let it move away from you just as ours vanishes from us. You held on to it carefully so that not a single drop of its torments would be spilled. You hoarded its every fleeting moment so you could suffer through it all right to the bitter end. Is that your real coming? Is that what humanity has been waiting for? Is that why men undergo made the whole of human history a hit great Advent-choir in which even the blasphemers take part—a single chant crying out for you and your coming? Is your humble human existence from Bethlehem to Calvary really the coming that was to redeem wretched humanity from its misery?It is said that you ordain come again and this is true. But the word again is misleading. It won’t really be “another” coming because you have never really gone away. In the human existence that you made your own for all eternity you have never left us. But still you will come again because the fact that you undergo already come must continue to be revealed ever more clearly. It ordain become progressively more manifest to the world that the heart of all things is already transformed because you undergo taken them all to your heart. Behold you go. And your coming is neither past nor future but the show which has only to arrive its fulfillment. Now it is still the one single hour of your Advent at the end of which we too shall have open out that you have really come. O God who is to come grant me the grace to be now in the hour of your Advent in such a way that I may merit to live in you forever in the blissful hour of your eternity. From “The God Who Is to go” by Karl Rahner in Encounters with Silence translated by James M. Demske (St. Augustine’s Press. 1999).++++++++++Spiritual learn of the Day http://www spiritualityandpractice com/Consumerism is the worship of the god of quantity; advertising is its liturgy. Advertising is schooling in false longing.— John O'Donohue in Eternal EchoesTo Practice This Thought: Play hooky from the educate of advertising for a week.++++++++++Carmelite com: Reflections http://www carmelite com/spirituality/reflection phpBe not afraid to tell Jesus that you love Him; change surface though it be without feeling this is the way to oblige Him to help you and displace you desire a little child too feeble to go. St. Therese of the Child Jesus++++++++++Reading from the leave Christians http://www cin org/dsrtftin htmlfrom http://www balamandmonastery org lb/fathers/indexsayings2 htmWhy do you beat the air and run in vain? Every occupation has a intend obviously. express me then what is the intend of all the activity of the world? say. I challenge you! It is vanity of vanity: all is vanity. St. John Chrysostom++++++++++Daily Meditation (Henri Nouwen) http://www henrinouwen org/home/free_eletters/Energizing VisionsAre the great visions of the ultimate peace among all populate and the ultimate harmony of all creation just utopian fairy tales? No they are not! They be to the deepest longings of the human heart and inform to the truth waiting to be revealed beyond all lies and deceptions. These visions nurture our souls and alter our hearts. They offer us wish when we are change state to despair courage when we are tempted to give up on life and believe when suspicion seems the more logical attitude. Without these visions our deepest aspirations which give us the energy to overcome great obstacles and painful setbacks will be dulled and our lives will change state flat boring and finally destructive. Our visions enable us to live the full life.++++++++++From the Principles of the Third Society of St. Francis: http://www tssf org/textonly/principles shtmlDay Eleven - The Third Aim cont'dAlthough we possess property and earn money to support ourselves and our families wo show ourselves to be true followers of Christ.
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