Readings week of October 5th.
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Readings from last week's Daily Contemplative Pauses
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Monday, October 5th
Reading: Poem of the Atoms
O’ day, arise!
shine your light , the atoms are dancing
Thanks to Him the universe is dancing,
overcome with ecstasy , free from body and mind
I’ll whisper in your ear where their dance is leading them.
All the atoms in the air and in the desert are dancing ,
puzzled and bemused to the ray of light,
they seem insane.
All these atoms are not so different than we are,
happy or miserable,
perplexed and bewildered
We are all beings in the ray of LIGHT from The Beloved,
Nothing can be said.
— Rumi
Tuesday, October 6th
Chant: Let me hear what you will speak, when I turn to you my heart
Wednesday, October 7th
Reading: “Jesus points out to me the only way which leads to Love’s furnace – that way is self-surrender – it is the confidence of the little child who sleeps without fear in its father’s arms.
“How shall I show my love is proved by deeds? Well – the little child will strew flowers…she will embalm the Divine Throne with their fragrance, will sing with silvery voice the canticle of love.
“The Divine Heart’s Goodness and Merciful Love are little known! It is true that to enjoy these treasures we must humble ourselves, must confess our nothingness – and here is where many a soul draws back.
“You know well enough that Our Lord does not look so much at the greatness of our actions, nor even at their difficulty, but at the love with which we do them.
“Miss no single opportunity of making some small sacrifice, here by a smiling look, there by a kindly word; always doing the smallest right and doing it all for love.”
— St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul
Chant: In love alone, I take my rest, I dwell, unafraid. In love alone, we take our rest, we dwell, unafraid — Kirsty Christian
Thursday, October 8th
Reading: “Charity gave me the key to my vocation. I understood that the Church [the global, spiritual body of all on a path of Wisdom] being a body composed of different members, the most essential, the most noble of all the organs would not be wanting to her; I understood that the Church has a heart and that this heart is burning with love; that it is love alone which makes the members work, that if love were to die away apostles would no longer preach the Gospel, martyrs would refuse to shed their blood. I understood that love comprises all vocations, that love is everything, that it embraces all times and all places because it is eternal!
“Love alone have I ever given to the good God; with love [God] will repay me.
“When one loves, one does not calculate.
“How sweet is the way of Love! True, one may fall, one may not be always faithful, but Love, knowing how to draw profit from all, very quickly consumes whatsoever may displease Jesus, leaving naught but humble and profound peace in the innermost soul.”
— St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul
— Henry Schoenfield
Friday, October 9th
Reading: “Do not imagine that love can be found without suffering, for we carry with us our human nature; and yet, what a source of merit it is!
“We who run in the way of love shouldn’t be thinking of sufferings that can take place in the future: it’s a lack of confidence, it’s like meddling in the work of creation.
“It is true that Love knows no such word as “impossible,” for it deems “all things possible, all things allowed.”
“I love you, Jesus, and bear in mind the words of St. John of the Cross: ‘The least act of pure love is of more value than all the other works put together.’”
— St. Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul
Chant: The Soul ever dwells, in the presence of the Holy One — Paulette Meier
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