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Minute Meditation – Our Heart is a Sensitive Receiver

Our heart is a highly sensitive receiver; it can listen through all our senses. Whatever we hear, but also whatever we see, taste, touch, or smell, vibrates deep down with God’s song. To resonate with this song in gratefulness is what I call singing back. This attitude of prayer has given great joy to all my senses and to my heart. A completely different inner world of prayer where I also feel at home is one to which silence opens the door—silence, not only as perceived by the ears, but also a quietness of the heart, a lucid stillness inside, like the stillness of a windless midwinter day.

— from the book The Way of Silence: Engaging the Sacred in Daily Lifeby Brother David Steindl-Rast

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Minute Meditation – Perseverance in Prayer

It seems to me that nothing is ever achieved without a certain daily doggedness that comes from a conviction about what you are working for and toward. Nowhere is this more evident than in prayer, for the daily fruit of prayer is at best a vague sense of peace, but more often that not, it is merely a sense of having tried. However, from time to time there is the breakthrough of God that is worth the daily drudgery and is only possible because of the daily perseverance that preceded it. Not that you merit a breakthrough because you persevered, but a certain attitude of receptiveness and patience, of humility and longing grows imperceptibly but surely in the heart of anyone who prays regularly in season and out. And the cumulative experience of your prayer reinforces the conviction that prayer, after all, is communion with the God you cannot see, so that in the end you are secure in having “known” God. 

—from the book Song of the Sparrow: New Poems and Meditations by Murray Bodo, OFM

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Minute Meditation – Blessed Be God!

How good are you, O Lord! Whether your hand lies lightly or heavily upon us, it is your goodness that moves you to touch us. And we know you by this touch, this action in our lives. Something happens that we don’t expect, and we find ourselves growing in a way we didn’t think possible or didn’t even imagine existed. And we know that you have touched us again.

— from the book Song of the Sparrow: New Poems and Meditations by Murray Bodo, OFM

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The Bible in a Year – Day 162 – Rehobo′am Seeks Counsel

Fr. Mike explains why it’s better to seek counsel from those who don’t necessarily always agree with us, using the experience of Rehobo′am as an example. He also touches on the failed leadership of Jerobo′am as he leads his people into false places of worship and idolatry. Today’s readings are 1 Kings 12, 2 Chronicles 10-11, and Song of Solomon 1.

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