Sept 6, 2013 Friday: 22nd Week in Ordinary C
I adore you, Lord and Creator,
hidden in the most Blessed Sacrament.
I adore you for all the works of your hands,
that reveal to me so much wisdom,
goodness and mercy, O Lord.
You have spread so much beauty over the earth
and it tells me about your beauty,
even though these beautiful things
are but a faint reflection of you,
incomprehensible beauty.
And although you have hidden yourself
and concealed your beauty,
my eye, enlightened by faith, reaches you
and my soul recognizes its creator,
its highest good,
and my heart is completely immersed
in prayer of adoration.
— St. Faustina Kowalska
“It is not always easy today to talk about fatherhood, especially in the Western world. Families are broken, the workplace is ever more absorbing, families worry and often struggle to make ends meet and the distracting invasion of the media invades our daily life. . . . At times communication becomes difficult, trust is lacking and the relationship with the father figure can become problematic; moreover, in this way even imagining God as a father becomes problematic. . . .
“Yet the revelation in the Bible helps us to overcome these difficulties by speaking to us of a God who shows us what it really means to be ‘father.’ . . . As Jesus revealed, he is the Father who feeds the birds of the air . . . who welcomes and embraces his lost but repentant son, who gives freely to those who ask him, and offers the bread of heaven and the living water. . . .
“It is in the Lord Jesus that the benevolent face of the Father, who is in heaven, is fully revealed. It is in knowing him that we may also know the Father. It is in seeing him that we can see the Father, because he is in the Father and the Father is in him. He is ‘the image of the invisible God’ (Colossians 1:15).
“Consequently God’s fatherhood is infinite love, tenderness that bends over us, frail children, in need of everything. Psalm 103, the great hymn of divine mercy, proclaims: ‘As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust’ (Psalm 103:13-14). It is our smallness, our frail human nature that becomes an appeal to the Lord’s mercy, that he may show his greatness and tenderness as a Father, helping, forgiving us and saving us.
Pope Benedict XVI
hidden in the most Blessed Sacrament.
I adore you for all the works of your hands,
that reveal to me so much wisdom,
goodness and mercy, O Lord.
You have spread so much beauty over the earth
and it tells me about your beauty,
even though these beautiful things
are but a faint reflection of you,
incomprehensible beauty.
And although you have hidden yourself
and concealed your beauty,
my eye, enlightened by faith, reaches you
and my soul recognizes its creator,
its highest good,
and my heart is completely immersed
in prayer of adoration.
— St. Faustina Kowalska
“It is not always easy today to talk about fatherhood, especially in the Western world. Families are broken, the workplace is ever more absorbing, families worry and often struggle to make ends meet and the distracting invasion of the media invades our daily life. . . . At times communication becomes difficult, trust is lacking and the relationship with the father figure can become problematic; moreover, in this way even imagining God as a father becomes problematic. . . .
“Yet the revelation in the Bible helps us to overcome these difficulties by speaking to us of a God who shows us what it really means to be ‘father.’ . . . As Jesus revealed, he is the Father who feeds the birds of the air . . . who welcomes and embraces his lost but repentant son, who gives freely to those who ask him, and offers the bread of heaven and the living water. . . .
“It is in the Lord Jesus that the benevolent face of the Father, who is in heaven, is fully revealed. It is in knowing him that we may also know the Father. It is in seeing him that we can see the Father, because he is in the Father and the Father is in him. He is ‘the image of the invisible God’ (Colossians 1:15).
“Consequently God’s fatherhood is infinite love, tenderness that bends over us, frail children, in need of everything. Psalm 103, the great hymn of divine mercy, proclaims: ‘As a father pities his children, so the Lord pities those who fear him. For he knows our frame; he remembers that we are dust’ (Psalm 103:13-14). It is our smallness, our frail human nature that becomes an appeal to the Lord’s mercy, that he may show his greatness and tenderness as a Father, helping, forgiving us and saving us.
Pope Benedict XVI
