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From today’s Responsorial Psalm (Psalm 97) we read:
Let all God’s angels worship God.
The heavens proclaim God’s justice and all people see God’s glory. All gods are prostrate before the Lord.
Today is the Feast of the Baptism of the Lord. Today’s Entrance Antiphon for the Sunday Liturgy is from Matthew 3:16-17.
Artwork from the Vatican Library in Rome
After the Lord was baptized, the heavens were opened, and the Spirit descended upon him like a dove, and the voice of the Father thundered: This is my beloved Son, with whom I am well pleased.
The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist….It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.
– Thomas Merton Contemplation in a World of Action
The world as pure object is something that is not there. It is not a reality outside us for which we exist….It is a living and self-creating mystery of which I am myself a part, to which I am myself, my own unique door.
At this time of making resolutions for the new year, let us remember that every effort counts.
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