From David.Steele@usask.ca Mon Jul 15 13:07:51 1996 Path: tribune.usask.ca!rover.ucs.ualberta.ca!hookup!nntp.et.byu.edu!nntp1.jpl.nasa.gov!news.magicnet.net!nntp.newsfirst.com!nntp.crosslink.net!news2.cais.net!news.cais.net!hunter.premier.net!newsfeed.internetmci.com!cdc2.cdc.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!usenet.ucs.indiana.edu!paladin.american.edu!auvm!CS.UTK.EDU!mayo Comments: Gated by NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU Newsgroups: bit.listserv.catholic Comments: ******************************************************** Comments: * The following "Approved" statement verifies header * Comments: * information for gateway passage. No approval of the * Comments: * content is implied. * Approved: NETNEWS@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU * Comments: ******************************************************** Message-ID: <199607121215.IAA01150@mayo.cs.utk.edu> Date: Fri, 12 Jul 1996 08:15:03 -0400 Sender: Free Catholic Mailing List From: "Jane Wallace Mayo (Wallace)" Subject: July 15, One Bread, One Body, BITTERSWEET Comments: To: obob@CS.UTK.EDU Lines: 50 Monday, July 15, 1996 St. Bonaventure Bishop, Religious, Doctor Memorial Isaiah 1:10-17 Psalm 50 Matthew 10:3411:1 BITTERSWEET "My mission is to spread, not peace, but the sword." --Matthew 10:34, our translation. The Christian life is rough. If we want to lead a godly life, we will be persecuted (2 Tm 3:12). Our enemies may be those of our own house- hold (Mt 10:36). As followers of Christ, we must take up our crosses daily (Lk 9:23) and bring ourselves to naught for Jesus (Mt 10:39). The Christian life can be very painful and lonely. However, we find our joy in suffering for Jesus (Col 1:24; 1 Pt 4:13). The Christian life is also full of joy and serendipities. The Lord will raise up people to give us a cup of cold water, a pizza, a prayer, a smile, a flower, or other gifts (see Mt 10:42). The Lord gives His fol- lowers His own joy--complete joy (Jn 15:11). As Christians, we move from grace to grace (Jn 1:16) and from glory to glory (2 Cor 3:18). The Christian life is both the most difficult and the most wonderful life possible for a human being. Do you want to really live? Give your life to Jesus; choose Christ as your Life (Jn 14:6; Phil 1:21). Live, suffer, and rejoice in life in Christ. Prayer: Father, thank You for deciding to live in me and letting me live in You (see Jn 17:23). Promise: "Wash yourselves clean! Put away your misdeeds from before My eyes; cease doing evil; learn to do good. Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphans plea, defend the widow. Is 1:17 Praise: When named a cardinal, St. Bonaventure was not available to be congratulated. He was doing the wash. ------------------------------------- http://w3.one.net/~presmin/index.html ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ From "One Bread, One Body, Holy Week, Summer" by Father Al Lauer of Presentation Ministries, reproduced with permission. Nihil Obstat: Rev. Robert L. Hagedorn, November 29, 1995 Imprimatur: +Most Rev. Carl K. Moeddel, Vicar General and Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of Cincinnati, December 4, 1995.