Thursday, April 07, 2011

Mary TV Daily Reflection 4/7/2011

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April 7, 2011

Dear Family of Mary!

"Dear children!  With motherly love I desire to open the heart of each of you and to teach you personal unity with the Father. To accept this, you must comprehend that you are important to God and that He is calling you individually. You must comprehend that your prayer is a conversation of a child with the Father; that love is the way by which you must set out - love for God and for your neighbor. That is, my children, the love that has no boundaries; that is the love that emanates from truth and goes to the end. Follow me, my children, so that also others, in recognizing the truth and love in you, may follow you. Thank you."    

Our Mother wants to open our hearts and teach us personal unity with the Father.  

She wants us to know that each of us important to God and that He calls us each, one at a time.  I think that the psalmist who wrote Psalm 139 really understood the unique and personal love God has for each one of us.  Let's meditate on this beautiful psalm, allowing the words to enter our hearts.  Our Father knows us more intimately than we know ourselves.  We can trust Him!

 

Psalm 139

Folio 91v - Psalm XXIV

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O LORD, thou hast searched me and known me!Thou knowest when I sit down and when I rise up;
thou discernest my thoughts from afar.
Thou searchest out my path and my lying down, 
and art acquainted with all my ways.
Even before a word is on my tongue, 
lo, O LORD, thou knowest it altogether.
Thou dost beset me behind and before, 
and layest thy hand upon me.
Such knowledge is too wonderful for me; 
it is high, I cannot attain it.
Whither shall I go from thy Spirit?
Or whither shall I flee from thy presence?
If I ascend to heaven, thou art there!
If I make my bed in Sheol, thou art there!
If I take the wings of the morning
and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, 
even there thy hand shall lead me, 
and thy right hand shall hold me.
If I say, "Let only darkness cover me, 
and the light about me be night,"
even the darkness is not dark to thee, 
the night is bright as the day; 
for darkness is as light with thee.
For thou didst form my inward parts, 
thou didst knit me together in my mother's womb.
I praise thee, for thou art fearful and wonderful.
Wonderful are thy works!
Thou knowest me right well; 
my frame was not hidden from thee, 
when I was being made in secret, 
intricately wrought in the depths of the earth.
Thy eyes beheld my unformed substance; 
in thy book were written, every one of them, 
the days that were formed for me, 
when as yet there was none of them.
How precious to me are thy thoughts, O God!
How vast is the sum of them!
If I would count them, they are more than the sand.
When I awake, I am still with thee.
O that thou wouldst slay the wicked, O God, 
and those men of blood would depart from me, 
men who maliciously defy thee, 
who lift themselves up against thee for evil!
Do I not hate them that hate thee, O LORD?
And do I not loathe them that rise up against thee?
I hate them with perfect hatred; 
I count them my enemies.
Search me, O God, and know my heart!
Try me and know my thoughts!
And see if there be any wicked way in me, 
and lead me in the way everlasting!

In Jesus, Mary and Joseph!
Cathy Nolan

 

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