-21°F -44°F windchill NW12mph SR0728 SS1702
Morning Offering given
Village in the deep freeze, not much moving here today. No school.
Coffee good, but hot choco would be better
St Ildefonsus shows us how to celebrate Mary’s willingness to accept God’s will no matter what this obedience cost her.
Meditations for Each Day by Cardinal Antonio Bacci pg. 31: Carrying Our Cross
“…we must embrace our cross every day. We must carry it with resignation and love in the footsteps of Jesus. Each of us has his cross. It might be ill health or financial distress. It might be some person whom we feel to be intolerable and with whom we have to live. It might be humiliation or calumny. It might be some temptation which we find hard to fight and which is continually causing us to fall. It might be all these things together. Whatever it is, it is our cross. To rebel would be to make things far worse. Our cross would only become heavier and more unbearable. Jesus tells us to embrace it as He did. He tells us to bow beneath its weight and follow Him. If we accept His invitation, at once our cross will seem lighter.”
Scripture Readings for Day 23
•Cultivating a Quiet Heart, Hebrews 4:9-10, Therefore, a sabbath rest still remains for the people of God. 10And whoever enters into God’s rest, rests from his own works as God did from his.
•New Beginnings, 2 Peter 3:10-11, But the day of the Lord will come like a thief,* and then the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar and the elements will be dissolved by fire, and the earth and everything done on it will be found out.i11Since everything is to be dissolved in this way, what sort of persons ought [you] to be, conducting yourselves in holiness and devotion,j
Today is a good day to make some time to think about what you have been reading this month. I’ve found it quite interesting that the scripture readings are telling how to quiet our hearts and how to begin our relationship with Christ. When I couple those with the daily meditations, I find myself with plenty to think about and work on. Today’s meditation in particular gives me much food for thought. If you were raised like I was, you were taught to “fix” the hardship, work hard, make it better, so you didn’t have to suffer much. Here we are being told to accept it, make ourselves one with it, and keep moving forward. In doing so, our suffering will lessen. Much food for thought here. What’s your take on it?
Know you are prayed for.
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