Daily Retreat 01/06/09
2009 Jan 6 Tue: Christmas Weekday/ Bl André Bessette, r
1 Jn 4: 7-10/ Ps 71(72): 1-2. 3-4. 7-8/ Mk 6: 34-44
N.B. Epiphany is celebrated today in some countries
From today’s readings: “God is love.... Lord, every nation on earth will adore You.... When Jesus saw the vast crowd, His heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd....”
God is Love
The verse most quoted from John’s epistles is probably 1 John 4:8, “God is Love!” (repeated just a few verses later, 1John 4:16). How profound, and yet how simple!
The Devil strives to blunt the effect of simple truths by tempting us to dismiss them as lackluster truisms: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, ‘God is love’ - everyone knows that, what’s the big deal?” Likewise, the Devil tries to dim the light of profound truths by tempting us to ignore them as convoluted sophisms: “God is love? What’s that supposed to really mean, anyway?”
So that you and I may thus avoid the demonic traps of overlooking the compelling significance of “God is love,” St. John wrote his whole first epistle to teach that simple, profound truth! So, by reading the whole letter, we can then see “God is love” as the soul’s truth of life!
1 Jn 4: 7-10/ Ps 71(72): 1-2. 3-4. 7-8/ Mk 6: 34-44
N.B. Epiphany is celebrated today in some countries
From today’s readings: “God is love.... Lord, every nation on earth will adore You.... When Jesus saw the vast crowd, His heart was moved with pity for them, for they were like sheep without a shepherd....”
God is Love
The verse most quoted from John’s epistles is probably 1 John 4:8, “God is Love!” (repeated just a few verses later, 1John 4:16). How profound, and yet how simple!
The Devil strives to blunt the effect of simple truths by tempting us to dismiss them as lackluster truisms: “Yeah, yeah, yeah, ‘God is love’ - everyone knows that, what’s the big deal?” Likewise, the Devil tries to dim the light of profound truths by tempting us to ignore them as convoluted sophisms: “God is love? What’s that supposed to really mean, anyway?”
So that you and I may thus avoid the demonic traps of overlooking the compelling significance of “God is love,” St. John wrote his whole first epistle to teach that simple, profound truth! So, by reading the whole letter, we can then see “God is love” as the soul’s truth of life!
posted by FrPitstick | 1/05/2009
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