Prayer
for the Day
God
of all kindness, today we come before You as Your children, unfaithful, hurting
and in need. We trust in Your love and
forgiveness, we Your people in whom You delight! Teach us to listen to You, to see You, and to
be faithful to our covenant with You and with one another. Show us that it is more important to love
than to be right, and to be grateful than to understand. We bless You and praise You forever! Amen.
Reflection
God's truth is based upon His love. He invites us to participate in this
love that is His very essence by developing a relationship with Him that leads
us to our perceiving His perfect love and as a result recognizing the sanctity,
the divine origin, of all human life.
Moral relativism, on the other hand, is an invention of those having no
knowledge of God and who claim that truth must change with the times and
circumstances. This belief places man above God and frees us to selfishly
manipulate and trample on one another for our benefit or convenience. Look around. Let those who have eyes see. This is the situation our world is in right
now. “Consider your ways!” (Haggai
1:1-8)
This situation relates to Mary's sorrow at seeing her Son, the
Incarnation of God's love and truth being reviled, abused and finally crucified
by those ignorant of the God they purportedly worshiped. Simeon's prediction
was fulfilled; Mary's heart was repeatedly pierced in a figurative way, while
the piercing of Christ's heart was literal. In this, Christ's final sacrifice,
the blood and water issuing from His wound baptizes and cleanses from sin all
those who lovingly live in His word. "The rise and fall of many"
predicted by Simeon (Luke 2:22-35) applies to us and depends upon our
acceptance or rejection of living in God's Holy Word.
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