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The Catholic Calendar for Tuesday, July 20, 2004
Tuesday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time
St. Apollinarius, bishop, martyr

Scripture from Tuesday’s Liturgy of the Word:
Micah 7:14-15, 18-20
Psalm 85:2-8
Matthew 12:46-50

A reflection on today’s Sacred Scripture:

Each of us make up the spiritual body of Christ on earth. We are one body -- each contributing to the whole. In this way we’re all brothers and sisters, part of Christ’s spiritual family. It can be easy to forget this in our every day lives, where we’re accustomed to building walls between ourselves and others. We create a sense of separation where really there isn’t any separation; we’re all one, but different expressions of the glory of God.

When we strive to win or come out ahead in our relationships with others at the expense of others -- we too lose. When we make someone feel deflated, discouraged, insecure, we are in effect damaging ourselves. When we see ourselves as totally separate from the world around us, then we’re suffering from a false illusion.

Today, let’s remember that we’re all bound together in Christ. In that knowledge let us act in love to everyone we encounter today. When we help someone to win, we win!

- Cliodhna Doyle
(clia at cliadoyle dot com)
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As we talked about a passion for God, a growing awareness of his presence, and a desire to do whatever I can to increase that, I realised that the thing which cultivated this passion in me, was to read and tell stories of Jesus.

This blog provides Daily stories of Jesus - some straight from various translations of the gospels, I hope about once a week- a re-told story. I find that the more I hear stories of Jesus , and the more we hear them, the more I discover what it means for us to have a passion for Jesus in our lives, and an deeper involvement with him.

As I ponder the stories I post, I am finding more and more that things hit me a few days later. What better to occupy my mind than stories of Jesus.

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