7 Feb
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5th Week in Ordinary Time
Gen. 1:20-2:4
Ps. 8:4-5,6-7,8-9
Mk. 7:1-13
(Ps Wk I)
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The writer of Psalm 8 does not speak about creation in any merely objective sense: he refers everything to God. He says, the heavens are "your heavens" and they are "the work of your fingers." This ability to see God in all of creation comes from contemplation, for the writer starts of by saying "When I behold." He looked, but not merely with the eyes of the body; he looked with the eyes of the soul, the eyes of faith, and so the beauty of the heavens with their countless stars, reveals to him the beauty of God.

During his intense spiritual experience, which became his Spiritual Exercises, St. Ignatius went walking along the river Cardoner one day. He sat down on the river-bank and gazed at the water flowing below. He had a deep mystical experience and, according to his own account, learned much about the Blessed Trinity and about human affairs. Significantly, he had this profound spiritual illumination, not while looking up to heaven and not while praying in a church or adoring Jesus in the Eucharist but while looking down at a very ordinary part of God's creation .



Lord, grant us a spirit of insight and contemplation that we may see Your truth and Your glory in creation.


DAILY OFFERING
Eternal Father, I offer You everything I do this day; my thoughts, words, joys and sufferings. Grant that, vivified by the Holy Spirit and united to the Sacred Heart of Jesus and the Immaculate Heart of Mary, my life this day may be of service to You and to others. I also pray that all those preparing for marriage discover in Sacrament the source of Christ's grace for living a fithful and fruitful love. Amen.

PRAYING WITH THE CHURCH
INTENTION
That all those who are afflicted, especially the poor, refugees, and marginalized, may find welcome and comfort in our communities.
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