Memorial of Saint Aloysius Gonzaga, Religious
June 21, 2024

Today’s Readings:

https://bible.usccb.org/bible/readings/062124.cfm

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Jesus said to his disciples:
“The lamp of the body is the eye.
If your eye is sound, your whole body will be filled with light;
but if your eye is bad, your whole body will be in darkness.
And if the light in you is darkness, how great will the darkness be.”
Matthew 6:22-23

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Jesus suggests that the movement from darkness to Light is continuous and dynamic. Picture yourself awakening without the intrusion of an alarm. We slowly open our eyes to the increasing light, remembering the world we left only a few hours earlier.

Today, in God’s Lavish Mercy:

We pray to open the eyes of our heart to the sacred Light Jesus describes. Jesus will go on to say in tomorrow’s Gospel that we find this Light by depending on and serving God.

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Poetry: You Who Want Knowledge – Emily Dickinson

You who want
knowledge,
see the Oneness
within.

There you
will find
the clear mirror
already waiting.

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Music: Gracious Light – Gregory Norbet