Daily Retreat 02/10/09
2009 Feb 10 Tue: Scholastica, v, r M
Gn 1: 20 – 2: 4a/ Ps 8: 4-5. 6-7. 8-9/ Mk 7: 1-13
From today’s readings: “God created man in His image; in the divine image He created him; male and female He created them.... O Lord, our God, how wonderful Your Name in all the earth!... Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites....”
God rested
The majestic account of Creation builds a mighty crescendo leading up to the sixth day, when “God created man in His image; in the divine image He created him; male and female He created them.”
Although Genesis thus presents the sixth day as the climax of God’s creative activity, the true culmination of the entire narrative comes only with the seventh day, when “God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work He had done in creation.”
We know, of course, that almighty God was not actually “tuckered out” from His work of creation - He rested and sanctified the Sabbath as an example to us, not as a favor to Himself! Thus, when you and I rest and keep the Lord’s day holy, we share in that specific blessing from God; but when we profane the Sabbath, we thereby spurn the blessing.
Gn 1: 20 – 2: 4a/ Ps 8: 4-5. 6-7. 8-9/ Mk 7: 1-13
From today’s readings: “God created man in His image; in the divine image He created him; male and female He created them.... O Lord, our God, how wonderful Your Name in all the earth!... Well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites....”
God rested
The majestic account of Creation builds a mighty crescendo leading up to the sixth day, when “God created man in His image; in the divine image He created him; male and female He created them.”
Although Genesis thus presents the sixth day as the climax of God’s creative activity, the true culmination of the entire narrative comes only with the seventh day, when “God blessed the seventh day and made it holy, because on it He rested from all the work He had done in creation.”
We know, of course, that almighty God was not actually “tuckered out” from His work of creation - He rested and sanctified the Sabbath as an example to us, not as a favor to Himself! Thus, when you and I rest and keep the Lord’s day holy, we share in that specific blessing from God; but when we profane the Sabbath, we thereby spurn the blessing.
posted by FrPitstick | 2/07/2009
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