Sunday-Ps.147:12-20 is the reading for today.this evocation of praise sounds like a natural exclamation of Happy New Year.In a Polish Christmas Eve, each person shares bread with every other persona at table and wishes them peace and prosperity, jsut as this psalm does.
Monday-“If assembling as the Church is, in the most profound sense of the term, the beginning of the eucharistic celebration. . ., then its end and completion is the Church’s entrance into heaven, her fulfillment at the table of Christ, in his kingdom. It is imperative to indicate and to confess this as the sacrament’s end, purpose and fulfillment. . .at the beginning because this ‘end’ also reveals the unity of the eucharist, its order and essence as movement and ascent—as, above all and before all, the sacrament of the kingdom of God.” Alexander Schmemann, “The Eucharist: Sacrament of the Kingdom,” p. 27
Tuesday-"Far from establishing one in unassailable narcissistic security, the way of prayer brings us face-to-face with the shame and indignity of the false self that seeks to live for itself alone and to enjoy the 'consolation of prayer' for its own sake. This 'self' is pure illusion, and ultimately he [or she] who lives for and by such an illusion must end either in disgust or in madness." [Thomas Merton, Contemplative Prayer (New York: Image, 1969/2014),
Wednesday-William Blake, who wrote: "We are put on earth for a little space that we may learn to bear the beams of love."
Thursday- Yes ... It could happen any time, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen. Or sunshine, love, salvation. It could, you know. That's why we wake and look out -- no guarantees in this life. But some bonuses, like morning, like right now, like noon, like evening. ~ William Stafford ~
Friday-Whatever may be the tensions and the stress of a particular day, there is always lurking close at hand the trailing beauty of forgotten joy or unremembered peace. --Howard Thurman
Saturday-"We resist feeling our pain because our society discourages it. Even without the absence of permission to feel sorrow, how many of us have the time and space it requires to adequately mourn our losses?"--- Christine Valters Paintner, PhD,
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