Daily Meditation - Monday 14July 2008 - LOOSING ONE'S LIFE FOR THE SAKE OF THE LORD

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  • Memorial of Bl. Kateri Tekakwitha, virgin
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My comment: No matter what our call and vocation in life may be, to follow The Gospel will call us to carry the cross and make sacrifices for the sake of living the Gospel in our particular vocation and when we make the choose for the cross and the sacrifices for the sake of The Gospel and The Lord, we begin to loose our life for His sake…until and as painful as it may be there is no real decision to make, nor choosing, any more - we embrace the cross and suffering in our life whenever it presents, for the Gospel and Christ have become our life and our way of life…loosing our life completely for Him. I think we see this in a very radical way indeed in the life and interior sufferings of Mother Teresa of Calcutta.

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Meditation
Matthew 10:34–11:1
**Whoever loves father or mother **
more than me
is not worthy of me. (Matthew 10:37)
  • On the evening of Palm Sunday in 1212, an eighteen-year-old woman from Assisi ran away from home.
  • At a little church at the base of the city’s hill, the woman—named Chiara Offreduccio, or Clare for short
  • —met up with a poor friar called Francesco.
  • He cut her hair, clothed her in a coarse habit, and received her commitment to embrace “Lady Poverty.”
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  • Clare’s family was appalled and tried to bring her home, but she resisted.
  • When her younger sister Agnes joined Clare, the family sent twelve armed men to retrieve the two women.
  • But as Clare prayed, Agnes became so heavy that she could not be budged.
  • Both Clare and Agnes remained at the convent.
    Clare was from a wealthy family and was considered one of the most beautiful women in Assisi.
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  • She could have had her choice of suitors.
  • Over a comfortable and prosperous lifestyle, she chose the rigors of an enclosed convent.
  • Her decision seemed irrational to her family, but Clare understood that God had a different vision for her life
  • —one with real costs but filled with innumerable graces.
    As Jesus promised,
    she “lost” her life but “found” it in him (Matthew 10:39).
Clare was fully aware of what she had lost and what she had gained.
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  • In a letter to Agnes of Prague—a princess of Bohemia who had abandoned earthly honors to join Clare’s new order—Clare wrote: "What a great, praiseworthy exchange: to leave the things of time for those of eternity,
  • to choose the things of heaven rather than the goods of earth,
  • to receive the hundredfold in place of one, and to possess a blessed and eternal life."
    The myriad attractions of the world tempt us to stray from the life that Jesus offers us.
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  • Even if they don’t persuade us to give up,
  • they can stir up dissatisfaction in us.
  • Too often we see the tangible things we are relinquishing more clearly than the less tangible joy of a life surrendered to Christ. Without an intimate relationship with Jesus,
  • without the nourishment and consolation he offers us,
  • we cannot lose our lives for his sake.
    **But immersed in his love, **
    we truly will find ourselves in the life that he offers us.
“Jesus, I give this day to you. Fill me with a burning desire to surrender each and every moment to you.”
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reen12 said:
Barb, will you please check your mail box?
Tried to send a message, but, apparently,
room needs to be made, before the software
will forward my glorious thoughts. http://bestsmileys.com/fainting/1.gif

Wordsmith, on the shores of the Hudson
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Apologies, Reen! I keep resolving to watch the number of PMs and not to let it get full, but it keeps running away from me…not hard to do:D . I have cleared space now…Blessings and regards - Barb:)
 
Thank you, Barb. I would like to pass this one along to my sister… whose Patron is St. Clare. God bless.

MV

P.S. Hi reens! 👋 😃
 
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