{"id":1611,"date":"2018-02-24T17:54:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T22:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/?p=1611"},"modified":"2018-02-24T17:54:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T22:54:04","slug":"saturday-of-ember-week-in-lent-daily-meditations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.latinliturgy.org\/phila\/2018\/02\/saturday-of-ember-week-in-lent-daily-meditations\/","title":{"rendered":"Saturday of Ember Week in Lent: Daily Meditations"},"content":{"rendered":"

LASTING FRUIT <\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

To live a fruitful life, a life that will be useful not only to oneself but to one\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s fellow men as well, is the dream of all whose hearts are not bereft of all nobility. To ease the way a bit for one who travels by my side, to make myself a strong support that he may lean upon, to cheer the hours when the clouds of sadness settle darkly round his soul, a blessed thing, indeed, is this, and all of us should look upon such acts not only as a duty but as a precious privilege.<\/p>\n

But there is something grander still held out by Jesus as the high ambition of His chosen followers. \u00e2\u20ac\u0153I have chosen you . . . that you should bring forth fruit and that your fruit should remain.\u00e2\u20ac\u009d<\/p>\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u0153That your fruit should remain!\u00e2\u20ac\u009d If it be a blessed thing to do a passing deed of kindness, to brighten another\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dreary life, to save a soul from just a single sin, to awaken even for a moment a spark of God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s love within a breast that long has lost the art of loving, if this be blessed, what, then, shall we say of him whose worthy deeds last not only for a moment but outlive the life of him who does them? What shall we say of him whose life is such a noble thing, whose every word and work is of such sterling quality that men shall linger over them in memory when their author has departed for a better world, and on that memory grow unto similar greatness?<\/p>\n

A noble ambition, indeed, to live a holy life so that future generations shall find in it an inspiration to rise to higher things.<\/p>\n

Is it thus that I am living?<\/p>\n

Jesus, Gentle Master, have mercy on us.<\/em><\/p>\n

EPISTLE AND GOSPEL: <\/strong>Taken from the Angelus Press 1962 Roman Catholic Daily Missal<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

EPISTLE: <\/strong>1 Thess. 5:14-23<\/p>\n

St. Paul exhorts us to prayer, to patience, and to charity.<\/em><\/p>\n

Brethren: We beseech you, rebuke the unquiet, comfort the feeble-minded, support the weak, be patient towards all men. See that none render evil for evil to any man: but ever follow that which is good towards each other and towards all men.
\nAlways rejoice.
\nPray without ceasing.
\nIn all things give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you all.
\nExtinguish not the spirit.
\nDespise not prophecies. But prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
\nFrom all appearance of evil refrain yourselves. And may the God of peace Himself sanctify you in all things: that your whole spirit and soul and body may be preserved blameless, for the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ.<\/p>\n

GOSPEL: <\/strong>Mt. 17:1-9<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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Taken from tomorrow’s<\/span><\/span> Gospel:\u00c2\u00a0 Trans\u00ef\u00ac\u0081guration of our Lord Jesus Christ on Mount Thabor: manifestation of the divinity of Jesus.<\/em><\/p>\n

At that time Jesus took Peter and James, and John his brother, and bringeth them up into a high mountain apart: and He was trans\u00ef\u00ac\u0081gured before them.
\nAnd His face did shine as the sun: and His garments became white as snow.
\nAnd behold there appeared to them Moses and Elias talking with Him.
\nAnd Peter answer-ing said to Jesus: Lord, it is good for us to be here: if Thou wilt, let us make here three tabernacles, one for Thee, and one for Moses, and one for Elias. And as he was yet speaking, behold a bright cloud overshadowed them.
\nAnd lo, a voice out of the cloud, saying: This is My beloved Son, in Whom I am well pleased: hear ye Him. And the disciples hearing, fell upon their face and were very much afraid.
\nAnd Jesus came and touched them, and\u00c2\u00a0said to them: Arise, and fear not. And they lifting up their eyes saw no one, but only Jesus.
\nAnd as they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying: Tell the vision to no man till the Son of man be risen from the dead.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n\n\n
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