SHJIHM :: The Daily Word :: Daily Reading: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 ~ Runboard
"There are not over a hundred people in the United States who hate the Catholic Church. There are millions, however, who hate what they wrongly believe to be the Catholic Church, which is, of course, quite a different thing." -Bishop Fulton J. Sheen
Placating terrorists, meeting with dictators, compassion for murderers... but no humanity for the unborn... incredible.
OOT
Daily Reading: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 Memorial of Saint Augustine, Bishop and Doctor of the Church
Psalm: Tuesday 31
Reading I
1 Thes 2:1-8
1 You know yourselves, my brothers, that our visit to you has not been pointless. 2 Although, as you know, we had recieved rough treatment and insults at Philippi, God gave us the courage to speak his gospel to you fearlessly, in spite of great opposition. 3 Our encouragement to you does not come from any delusion or impure motives or trickery. 4 No, God has approved us to be entrusted with the gospel, and this is how we preach, speaking not to please human beings but God who tests our hearts. 5 Indeed, we have never acted with the thought of flattering anyone, as you know, nor as an excuse for greed, as God is our witness; 6 nor have we ever looked for honour from human beings, either from you or from anybody else, 7 when we could have imposed ourselves on you with full weight, as Apostles of Christ.
Instead, we lived unassumingly among you. Like a mother feeding and looking after her children, 8 we felt so devoted to you, that we would have been happy to share not only the gospel of God, but also our own lives, so dear had you become.
Responsorial Psalm
Ps 139:1-3, 4-6
Domine, probasti. God's special providence over his servants.
R. (1) You have searched me and you know me, Lord.
Yahweh, you examine me and know me,
you know when I sit, when I rise,
you understand my thoughts from afar.
You watch when I walk or lie down,
you know every detail of my conduct.
R. You have searched me and you know me, Lord.
A word is not yet on my tongue
before you, Yahweh, know all about it.
You fence me in, behind and in front,
you have laid your hand upon me.
Such amazing knowledge is beyond me,
a height to which I cannot attain.
R. You have searched me and you know me, Lord.
Gospel
Mt 23:23-262
23 'Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay your tithe of mint and dill and cummin and have neglected the weightier matters of the Law-justice, mercy, good faith! These you should have practised, those not neglected. 24 You blind guides, straining out gnats and swallowing camels!
25 'Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of cup and dish and leave the inside full of extortion and intemperance. 26 Blind Pharisee! Clean the inside of cup and dish first so that it and the outside are both clean.
Today's reading was prepared using the New Jerusalem Bible.
Re: Daily Reading: Tuesday, August 28, 2007 From the Office of Readings for Tuesday, August 28:
The Confessions of Saint Augustine, Bishop
O Eternal Truth, true love and beloved eternity
Urged to reflect upon myself, I entered under your guidance the innermost places of my being; but only because you had become my helper was I able to do so. I entered, then, and with the vision of my spirit, such as it was, I saw the incommutable light far above my spiritual ken and transcending my mind: not this common light which every carnal eye can see, nor any light of the same order; but greater, as though this common light were shining much more powerfully, far more brightly, and so extensively as to fill the universe. The light I saw was not the common light at all, but something different, utterly different, from all those things. Nor was it higher than my mind in the sense that oil floats on water or the sky is above the earth; it was exalted because this very light made me, and I was below it because by it I was made. Anyone who knows truth knows this light.
O eternal Truth, true Love, and beloved Eternity, you are my God, and for you I sigh day and night. As I first began to know you, you lifted me up and showed me that, while that which I might see exists indeed, I was not yet capable of seeing it. Your rays beamed intensely on me, beating back my feeble gaze, and I trembled with love and dread. I knew myself to be far away from you in a region of unlikeness, and I seemed to hear your voice from on high: “I am the food of the mature: grow, then, and you shall eat me. You will not change me into yourself like bodily food; but you will be changed into me”.
Accordingly I looked for a way to gain the strength I needed to enjoy you, but I did not find it until I embraced the mediator between God and man, the man Christ Jesus, who is also God, supreme over all things and blessed for ever. He called out, proclaiming I am the Way and Truth and the Life, nor had I known him as the food which, though I was not yet strong enough to eat it, he had mingled with our flesh, for the Word became flesh so that your Wisdom, through whom you created all things, might become for us the milk adapted to our infancy.
Late have I loved you, Beauty so ancient and so new, late have I loved you!
Lo, you were within,
but I outside, seeking there for you,
and upon the shapely things you have made
I rushed headlong – I, misshapen.
You were with me, but I was not with you.
They held me back far from you,
those things which would have no being,
were they not in you.
You called, shouted, broke through my deafness;
you flared, blazed, banished my blindness;
you lavished your fragrance, I gasped; and now I pant for you;
I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst;
you touched me, and I burned for your peace.
Daily Reading: Tuesday, August 28, 2007
