Convention 2011 Countdown - July 12-13, 2011

Love is Fire!

Pro Sanctity National Convention - July 29-31, 2011

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July 12, 2011 - Teresa M

"But love does such things" (From "The Lord" by Romano Guardini)
"Let us consider carefully what this means: that the everlasting, infinite
creator not only reigns over or in the world but, at a specific "moment,"
crossed an unimaginable borderline and personally entered into
history...Once at this point a friend gave me a clue that helped my
understanding more than any measure of bare reason. He said, "But love does
such things!"

Joseph stoutly convinced that he must divorce Mary, takes a nap, wakes up,
and in a bizarre manner of action for this quiet man, changes his mind and
takes her as his wife. Unbelievably the young, inexplicably pregnant Mary
goes in haste into the hill country to assist her cousin Elizabeth, who is
also unexplainably pregnant!

All this started when God unaccountably, but at a designated time, breaks
out of heaven and comes to earth born of a woman that we might love him.
Oh my, such strange behavior for the God of the entire universe, yet as
Romano Guardini highlights, "love does such things."
Love has no boundaries and does not care if it makes sense or not! God is
love and love cannot be contained, it must be expressed sensibly or
insensibly it matters not!

Oh Lord, may I cease from hesitation or from what seems to be limitations,
restrictions or norms, may I love in the same strange and unaccountable ways
as you have modeled, not resisting love in any manner because of human
norms. Your ways, O Lord, are filled with puzzles, but since Love does such
things and then I too must be love! Amen!

PAUSE AND PRAY IN REPONSE TO WHAT YOU HAVE READ....
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July 13, 2011 - Msgr. Andrew Vaccari

"When they were there, the time came for her to have her child, and she gave birth to her firstborn son. She wrapped him in swaddling clothes and laid him in a manger, because there was no room for them in the inn."

From the first breath Jesus took, his life was marked by contradictions. There was no room for him at the inn in Bethlehem, where the people were crowding the available space. They rejected him, even they did not know who he was. By contrast, his mother Mary gave him loving care and was so devoted to him, even with what seems to be a simple gesture, such as wrapping him in swaddling clothes. She loved her own but loved us all in him.

Dear Mary, you were so tender toward him, with a loving mother's heart. I too want this heart, without the distractions of busy-ness. Mary, you brought Jesus into the world - fulfilling the Father's plan. I too wish to bring Jesus to the world, fulfilling what the Father has in store for me.

PAUSE AND PRAY IN REPONSE TO WHAT YOU HAVE READ....

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July 14, 2011 - Blessed Guerric of Igny
Blessed Guerric of Igny (around 1080-1157), Cistercian abbot Sermon 1 on Saint John the Baptist, §2

"John testified to the truth... He was the lamp, set aflame and burning
bright." (Jn 5:33.35)

This lamp, which is destined to give light to the world, brings me a new joy, for thanks to it, I recognized the true Light which shines in the darkness, but which the darkness did not accept (Jn 1:5)... We can admire
you, John, who are the greatest of all the saints; but it is impossible for us to imitate your sanctity. Since you hasten to prepare for the Lord a perfect people with publicans and sinners, it is extremely urgent that you
speak to them in a way that is more accessible to them than your life. Offer them a model of perfection that is not only your way of living, but that is adapted to the weakness of human strength. "Give some evidence that
you mean to reform." (Mt 3:8)

But we, Brothers, we take pride in speaking better than we live. John however, whose life is more sublime than what human beings can understand, makes his language available to their understanding. He says: "Give some evidence that you mean to reform." "I am speaking to you in a human way because of the weakness of the flesh. If you cannot yet entirely do good, may there be in you at least a true desire to reform from what is bad. If you cannot yet give evidence of perfect righteousness, may your perfection at present consist in giving evidence of behavior that shows that you desire to reform."

PAUSE AND PRAY IN REPONSE TO WHAT YOU HAVE READ....
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Convention 2011 Countdown - July 12-13, 2011