MARY, OUR MOTHER: Your Weekly Reflection from CMMB 12/21/14

Sunday, December 21, 2014

Your Weekly Reflection from CMMB 12/21/14

Your Weekly Reflection

Blessed Christmas

“This will be a sign for you: you will find an infant wrapped in swaddling clothes and lying in a manger.”
Luke 2:12

Dear Friends,

The star, the angels, the shepherds; Mary and Joseph, the Magi and the oxen—so many ways to point to the mystery of Christmas. And always at the center must be the child, the infant wrapped in swaddling clothes, lying in a manger.

Blessed Cardinal Newman put it well in a Christmas sermon. Christmas reveals God to be Emmanuel, with us as “omnipotence in bonds.” God who is mighty, all-powerful and eternal takes on the limitations of human flesh. In Jesus Christ, God combines the two extremes of greatness and smallness. Is this not in a small way echoed in the work of the Catholic Medical Mission Board? With the help of large organizations and corporations, with a multi-million-dollar budget, our goal and focus is to bring care and healing power to mothers and children around the world—ultimately to the new-born baby in Haiti and Kenya and Peru.

In different ways, we try to imitate and share this boundless love of God, which is focused on the infant Jesus. A Blessed Christmas to All!

Rev. Peter Schineller, SJ

Forward

Rejoice, you who are just. It is the birthday of Him who justifies.
Rejoice, you who are weak and sick. It is the birthday of Him who heals.
Rejoice, you who are in darkness. It is the birthday of the Redeemer.
Rejoice, you who are free. It is the birthday of Him who makes free.
Rejoice you Christians all. It is Christ’s birthday.
St. Augustine

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PSALM 71 SPEAKS TO MY HEART

Forsake Me Not When My Strength Is Spent

In you, O Lord, do I take refuge;
let me never be put to shame!
In your righteousness deliver me and rescue me;
incline your ear to me, and save me!

Be to me a rock of refuge,
to which I may continually come;
you have given the command to save me,
for you are my rock and my fortress.

Rescue me, O my God, from the hand of the wicked,
from the grasp of the unjust and cruel man.
For you, O Lord, are my hope,
my trust, O Lord, from my youth.
Upon you I have leaned from before my birth;
you are he who took me from my mother's womb.
My praise is continually of you.

I have been as a portent to many,
but you are my strong refuge.
My mouth is filled with your praise,
and with your glory all the day.
Do not cast me off in the time of old age;
forsake me not when my strength is spent.

For my enemies speak concerning me;
those who watch for my life consult together
and say, “God has forsaken him;
pursue and seize him,
for there is none to deliver him.”

O God, be not far from me;
O my God, make haste to help me!
May my accusers be put to shame and consumed;
with scorn and disgrace may they be covered
who seek my hurt.

But I will hope continually
and will praise you yet more and more.
My mouth will tell of your righteous acts,
of your deeds of salvation all the day,
for their number is past my knowledge.

With the mighty deeds of the Lord God I will come;
I will remind them of your righteousness, yours alone.

O God, from my youth you have taught me,
and I still proclaim your wondrous deeds.

So even to old age and gray hairs,
O God, do not forsake me,
until I proclaim your might to another generation,
your power to all those to come.
Your righteousness, O God,
reaches the high heavens.
You who have done great things,
O God, who is like you?

You who have made me see many troubles and calamities
will revive me again;
from the depths of the earth
you will bring me up again.
You will increase my greatness
and comfort me again.

I will also praise you with the harp
for your faithfulness, O my God;
I will sing praises to you with the lyre,
O Holy One of Israel.
My lips will shout for joy,
when I sing praises to you;
my soul also, which you have redeemed.

And my tongue will talk of your righteous help all the day long,
for they have been put to shame and disappointed
who sought to do me hurt.

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