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MONDAY: ROMANS 12:9-16 ; LUKE 1:39-56
Today we celebrate the Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to her cousin Elizabeth.
Reflecting on it, we can ask ourselves: Why was Mary sensitive to the needs of her cousin Elizabeth, if she was also in need of support after the news of being pregnant?
How often being aware of our own needs makes us more sensitive and compassion to the needs of others! What’s more, when we let God’s overwhelming love and compassion touch ourselves, we are also able to have those same feelings towards others in similar circumstances. Yes, as if the God living in me connects with the God living in the other person! Wasn’t this what happened with Mary and Elizabeth?
Lord, fill us with your love, and help us to contemplate your Trinitarian love, the love between the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, as Mary did.
The other passage I invite you to pray is from Romans. When I read it, it makes me think about the love in the Trinity, I mean the loving relationship between the Father, Jesus and the Holy Spirit. It also awakes in me the desire that their love can dwell and shine in me, as it did in Mary’s life.
Lord, help us to contemplate your love and let you love in us.
TUESDAY: PROVERBS 8:22-31
“God delights to be with the children of men...”
The thought or rather the reality of our faith in that the Holy Trinity delights to be with us, is quite stunning!
The infinite, eternal God, creator of all that exists; His Son Jesus, who worked with human hands, loved with human heart, felt and suffering as we all do, and His Spirit who guided Jesus to proclaim and live God’s kingdom; this same Trinity delights being with us!
Baptism makes us the dwelling place of the Trinity. This is a huge gift that few people have unwrapped!
Instead of trying to work out rationally how come God can be 3 in 1, I invite you to ask God for the gift of faith.
As Paschal said, “The heart has reasons that the mind doesn’t know.” And we can also acknowledge that faith goes beyond reason.
Lord, help us to recognise the gift of believing that you live within us; we are never alone. Help us to recognise the gift that you rejoice for our friendship, for us to relate with you and recognise how you are relating with us. Help us to recognise your loving presence within us. Help us to recognise the gift that is to believe that you are 3 in 1, you don’t only tell us to love one another but you among yourselves are the model of that loving relationship you created us to live as well.
WEDNESDAY: JOHN 16:12-15
This reading reveals how the Holy Spirit seeks the glory of Jesus as well as Jesus sought the glory of the Father.
I feel very touched and challenged by this kind of relationship, so selfless and free from each one’s glory.
This makes me also reflect: how are my relationships? Do I seek my glory or am I able to rejoice for the glory of others?
Some months ago I spoke to a friend who is married and is a mother of two children; she told me she made an option to work less than she used to so she could give more support to her 2 children and husband. Isn’t this an example of being selfless from owns professional glory? Although it is not easy, she also told me this has helped and strengthened the bounds of the family.
Which glory do we seek in our family relationships, friendships, community life?
Lord God, help us to discern when to give up from our own glory and success for the sake of our families, friendships or community life. Help us to be free to love and help us to see which greater benefit comes up from that.
“Love never ends” (1 Cor 13:8 )
THURSDAY: ROMANS 5:1-5
Have you ever asked yourselves: where is God when I pass through difficult moments? When I don’s see things clear? When things haven’t worked out as I planed? When other people don’s agree with what I see so clear?...
Conflicts and difficulties are part of our life but how can we pass through them without ending up being angry and bitter?
The reading to the Romans invites us to be open to what the Trinity can offer us in those moments too:
“We are at peace with God through our Lord Jesus Christ; through Him by faith we have God’s favour... let’s exult in our hardships as it develops perseverance, a tested character that gives us hope, a hope which will not let us down because the love of God has been poured out in our hearts by the Holy Spirit which has been given to us.”
So, I invite you today to voice and offer to God your hardships as Jesus did during his life; asking the Holy Spirit to fill you and guide you in peace and hope.
FRIDAY: 1 CORINTHIANS 6:12-20
To believe in the Trinity is to believe that God is bigger than us, beyond us but also that our God is within us. Therefore, we are temples of His Spirit.
How do we treat ourselves? How do we let others treat us?
Lord, help us to respect ourselves as you do and as you chose our bodies to be the place where you want to live.
How do we listen to God living in us? Prayer, silence is very important because it is the time where we are called to calm down and discern our anxieties, thoughts, feelings and God’s voice within us, many times dwelling in the midst of all that we are.
Let’s ask the Holy Spirit to guide us and help us to discern God’s presence and voice within, which is gentle but full of hope, love, and which leads us also to fullness of life.
© Verbum Dei * 2010
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