Weekly Inspiration (7/11/24)

“ While it is God’s nature to reach out and touch us, our nature runs in the opposite direction. We choose to reach out our hands to the forbidden fruit, thinking that by eating it, we will become like God. The paradox is that we become like God by choosing to reach them out in humility and loving service, just as Jesus did. “

Br. James Koester
Society of Saint John the Evangelist

Poem of the Week

Prayer of St. Francis

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace:
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
where there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
where there is sadness, joy.

O divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console,
to be understood as to understand,
to be loved as to love.
For it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.