About Me
- Father Mike
- I was ordained for the Archdiocese of Philadelphia on May 15, 1993. I am a widower with 8 children and 24 grandchildren and 10 great grandchildren. On July 1, 2014 I began my residence at St Mathew Parish in Philadelphia, PA. My last assignment was pastor of St.Elizabeth Ann Seton in Bensalem, PA since November of 1999. I have created this Blog in response to Pope Benedict XVI's recommendation that Priest use modern means of communications to reach out to people with the Good News. I publish daily my Lectio Divina efforts via a group email. I will publish such efforts from time to time to this site as well as other pertinent info about the Good News of Jesus Christ or issues which are contrary to the Good News. What is Lectio Divina? Lectio Divina is the Study of and Meditation on Sacred Scripture. The steps include: Reading (Lectio),- Pondering (Meditatio); Praying (Oratio) and Silence(Contemplatio). I use the daily Lectionary as the source of readings.
ReplyDelete10.08.12
Lectio: Gal 1.13-24
Meditatio: “they only kept hearing that the one who was persecuting us is now preaching the faith he tried to destroy’.” Gal 1. 23
Oratio: " O God, Your grace changes everything.
I remember Your grace changed Paul from a violent persecutor of the faith to an outstanding evangelizer.
Grant that I may always respond to your graces which You bestow upon me and may I respond in the way You wish.
I ask these and all things through Jesus Christ our Lord, who lives and reigns with the Father and the Holy Spirit, one God, forever and ever.
Contemplatio: Keep silence and remain in recollection for a few minutes.
Operatio: reflect on "grace”; God’s help; God’s favor; God’s love; in prayer know that just as love changes everything so much more does God’s graces for God is All-Love; strive to respond to His graces as a lover would to the Beloved for that is who He is.
Tomorrow's reading: Gal 2.1-2,7-14