SEEING THROUGH THE TEARS - One Bread, One Body, 11/20/2008

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Encyclical Witnesses To Truth About Married Love
Mary Ministers Love And Hope
In Defense of Life: Distorting Truth
Prison To Praise: We Must Forgive!
Books Focus On God
Africa Continues To Challenge
Proclamation of Thanksgiving

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Thursday, November 20, 2008

Revelation 5:1-10, Psalm 149, Luke 19:41-44
Link to Readings --> http://www.usccb.org/nab/112008.shtml

SEEING THROUGH THE TEARS

"Coming within sight of the city, He wept over it." —Luke 19:41

The Church is renewed through a "vale of tears." We don't just pray and
work for renewal; we cry for it. We will see the light through our tears
when we love enough to weep bitterly (Rv 5:4) for Jesus to "open the
scroll" (Rv 5:5), that is, reveal His plan for renewing the Church. The
Lord wants to give us "full knowledge of His will through perfect wisdom
and spiritual insight" (Col 1:9). He knows that without a vision for
renewal, we will flounder (see Prv 29:18, JB).

However, the devil tries to prevent us from receiving God's revelation for
renewal. He will even attempt to obstruct the path of God's angels to
prevent them from revealing to us God's plan for renewal (see Dn
10:12-13). If we keep on crying, not in self-pity but in repentance for
our sins and in love for God and others, we will get the message, see the
light, and renew the Church.

Do you love enough to stop crying for yourself and start crying for the
Church? Do you love enough to keep crying even for years? If so, the Lord
can use you to renew the Church. Then you will cry tears of joy.

Prayer: Father, "oh, that my head were a spring of water, my eyes a
fountain of tears, that I might weep day and night over the slain of the
daughter of my people!" (Jer 8:23, NAB)

Promise: "You made of them a kingdom, and priests to serve our God, and
they shall reign on the earth." —Rv 5:10

Praise: Rev. Parsons has such a devotion to God's word that he reads
through the entire Bible more than ten times each year.

(For a related teaching, order our tape "The Pope's Vision of God's Plan"
on audio AV 50-3 or video V-50.)

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