Wednesday, November 4, 2020
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Our Song
My song will please the Lord more than oxen, more than bullocks with horns and hooves; see, you lowly ones, and be glad; you who seek the Lord, take heart!
More than any sacrifice, God awaits an open heart. More than any burnt offering, God awaits a heart eager and ready to receive the marvelous gift of God’s love.
Hebrews 10:5-6: Therefore, when Christ came into the world, he said: “Sacrifice and offering you did not desire, but a body you prepared for me; with burnt offerings and sin offerings you were not pleased”.
“For sacrifice to become a value, you must discover something for which life is worth living . . . Sacrifice is born of the heart-thawing yearning of the love of Christ . . . The truest sacrifice is to recognize a presence. What does it mean to recognize a presence? The I, instead of affirming itself, affirms you. This is the greatest devotion: ‘There is no greater love than to lay down one’s life for one’s friends’; it is the same as giving one’s life . . . To affirm the other implies the forgetting of ourselves, which is the opposite of being attached to ourselves; we sacrifice to the other . . . The truest sacrifice is to recognize a presence, which means the truest sacrifice is to love”. (Cameron: L. Giussani)
Our song is one of thanksgiving to God who created us.
Our song in one of gratitude for a God who saves us.
Our song is one of joy for a God who transforms us.
Our song in one of serenity for a God who forgives, and guides, protects and abides with us.
Our song is one of a life offered in sacrifice to a God who is limitless and profound, to a God who loves us without end.
Cameron, Peter John. Fr. Julián Carrón. “Meditation of the Day.” MAGNIFICAT. 30.11(2013): 399-400. Print.
Luigi Giovanni Giussani (October 15, 1922 – February 22, 2005) was an Italian Catholic priest, educator, public intellectual and founder of the international Comunione e Liberazione (Catholic movement Communion and Liberation). (Wikipedia)
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