Memorial of Saint Justin, Martyr
June 1, 2024

Today’s Readings:

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/060124.cfm

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Build yourselves up in your most holy faith;
pray in the Holy Spirit.
Keep yourselves in the love of God
and wait for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ
that leads to eternal life.
Jude 17: 20-21

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Jude’s epistle indicates that we have responsibility to keep our faith strong. He also suggests that faith is an evolutionary process enriched by practice and reflection.

Today in God’s Lavish Mercy:

Let’s take a look at how, by God’s grace, we have grown in our faith over the years. What circumstances have deepened us in our spiritual understanding? How have we refined our spiritual practices to ready ourselves for transformation? What curves in the road have tested us? What heights have blessed us? What depths have matured us?

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Poetry: To Find God – Robert Herrick

Weigh me the fire; or canst thou find
A way to measure out the wind?
Distinguish all those floods that are
Mixed in that wat’ry theater,
And taste thou them as saltless there,
As in their channel first they were.

Tell me the people that do keep
Within the kingdoms of the deep;
Or fetch me back that cloud again,
Beshivered into seeds of rain.

Tell me the motes, dust, sands, and spears
Of corn, when summer shakes his ears;
Show me that world of stars, and whence
They noiseless spill their influence.

This if thou canst; then show me Him
That rides the glorious cherubim.

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Music: Increase My Faith – Brian Courtney Wilson