Readings week of December 8th.
- heather
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Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses
*All previous readings & reflections can be found here*
Monday, December 8th
Reading: “In the 14th century, Meister Eckhart enjoyed waking people up in his sermons by expounding some uncomfortably new perspectives about their standardised faith. He must have stirred a few dozy parishioners when he asked: "What good is it to me if this eternal birth of the divine Son takes place unceasingly, but does not take place within myself? And, that it should take place within myself, is really what matters."
“Actually, the great Augustine had asked the same question a thousand years before and added that if we are the children of God, we must become God’s mother as well. If, he said, this birth of the eternal word as Christ in the soul is to happen, our heart – the deepest centre of our being - must become the sacred manger. If we are filled with egocentric distraction there is ‘no room at the inn’ and so the heart must become that empty and open space where the birth takes place and through which he is welcomed into our world.” – Lawrence Freeman
Chant: Take o take me as I am, summon out what I shall be, set your seal upon my heart, and live in me – John Bell