Meditation Mk 10,28-31

Stand in God’s presence. God is present here and now, looking upon you with love.

Ask for the Grace: I will beg God our Lord that all my intentions and actions may be directed purely to the praise and service of His Divine Majesty

Fixing a place, a picture for meditation: See Jesus and the disciples. Look at how they look, how they are dressed, how they relate to each other. Hear what they are talking about. Listen to how Jesus says that everyone who gives up their home, family, receives a hundred times more, he gets eternal life. Find yourself in this scene. Look, feel what Jesus’ words cause in you.

Ask for the fruit of meditation: for internal freedom

1. … there is no one who  has gives up house or brothers or sisters or mother or father or children or lands for my sake … who will not receive a hundred times more now in this present age..

a. Jesus does not say to neglect his relatives, but that all our relationships, feelings, actions should be directed to the greater glory of God. You shouldn’t physically leave your home, your loved ones (though this may also be needed), but if you do not last in the relationships in which you are connected with the umbilical cord, you couldn’t care more about the relationship with Jesus than about your home. Perhaps Jesus once again wants to make us aware that he should be at the center of our lives, because only then our relationships and matters have their proper place in our lives. So maybe you should leave the house and others to love them again, to enter into new relationships full of God’s Love?What can this mean for you, your relationships, your marriage (what can you give your husband as a wife, so that the husband would feel loved by you, what can you give your wife, let her be loved as a husband)?

b. Jesus’ words can be applied not only to relationships, external things. Perhaps even more they relate to our attachments, certain habits, areas that we keep under control such as our emotional sphere, our reasons, which we defend at all costs? See those spaces in you that are difficult to leave. Ask Jesus for help in regaining freedom in these places to make space for God.

c. Note that if we do not cling to home, ourselves, others, we become more open to what we meet in life. Our eyes become more open, we can see more, hear more, in our heart we can find more spaces for others. This makes us get more good to share it. What specific goods have you received today? Realize that everything you have received is an expression of God’s love for you. Thank for that.

2. But many that are first will be last, and (the) last will be first.

God’s Kingdom is not of this world. What according to human law is first, according to God’s law may be the last. God’s Kingdom is ruled by the law of the heart. It’s a completely different law. Look at yourself according to God’s law, as a loving God looks – Father for you, for whom you are the first. What you see?

The final conversation: Spend a little time at the end, being with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit….as you would with a good friend: sometimes talking, sometimes listening, sometimes being together in silence. Speak to God about your feelings. Remember that times when ‘nothing is happening’ can also be significant. When you’re ready, end your prayer by saying thank you or using words that are familiar,such as the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father)–whichever feels right and comfortable. (The Spiritual Exercises No.54)

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Meditation Mk 9,30-37

Stand in God’s presence. God is present here and now, looking upon you with love.

Ask for the Grace: I will beg God our Lord that all my intentions and actions may be directed purely to the praise and service of His Divine Majesty

Fixing a place, a picture for meditation: Jesus goes to Capernaum through Galilee with his disciples. See the way they follow. Jesus does not want anyone to know about their journey. He wants to teach his disciples and to tell them again about his impending departure. Listen to them talking about it. Look at disciples. They do not understand Jesus’ words. What’s more, they are arguing with each other. Where are you in this scene?

Ask for the fruit of meditation: for the desire to cling to Jesus 

1. But they did not understand the saying, and they were afraid to question him.

Why? What attitude did the disciples adopt? What could be their fear caused by? Maybe they did not want to hear, understand and feel what was difficult for them. They wanted to deaden  what might have been painful in themselves.Perhaps you sometimes react in a similar way to disciples? Not only for someone’s words, but also for the difficulties you have in yourself (everyone has :)). The fear of coming into contact with difficult truth can be great. Perhaps it is worth not to focus on the fear, but to see what the confrontation with the difficulty can lead to. Perhaps it is a way leading you to freedom, love, and thus a deeper relationship with God?
See in yourself one thing that is difficult for you, which you do not want to understand as disciples did not want. What Goods can a confrontation with this thing give you? This will be your step forward that will allow you not to stagnate, but to accept surprises from the Lord (cf. apostolic Exhortation Gaudete et Exsultate pt 139).

2. Disciples argued who is the greatest of them.

Is the fact that God has allowed each disciple (you too) to live, which he constantly supports, not enough for each disciple to feel the greatest? And yet it was not, if they argued. It is true that they were ashamed to admit it to Jesus. What is the difference between the understanding of the greatest of a human being by the disciples from the understanding of Jesus? What does it mean to be the greatest of man for you? Where do you look and find your true worth?

3. Whoever receives one child such as this in my name, receives me.

Each of us has within himself/ herself the child. Find the child in yourself. Ask for his/her desires, fears. Hug this child to yourself, embrace them. Your child needs your love. Jesus wants you to feel loved. Let Jesus cuddle to you, to your inner child. What do you feel? Thank you for this experience and talk to Jesus about it.

Meditation: St Ignatius encourages in The Spiritual Exercises No. 2 … Because not so much knowledge, but internal feeling and the taste of things please and saturate the soul, that is, we stay where we feel interior movement … and nervously do not try to go on.

The final conversation: Spend a little time at the end, being with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit….as you would with a good friend: sometimes talking, sometimes listening, sometimes being together in silence. Speak to God about your feelings. Remember that times when ‘nothing is happening’ can also be significant. When you’re ready, end your prayer by saying thank you or using words that are familiar,such as the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father)–whichever feels right and comfortable. (The Spiritual Exercises No.54)

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Meditation J 17,1-11a

Stand in God’s presence. God is present here and now, looking upon you with love.

Ask for the Grace: I will beg God our Lord that all my intentions and actions may be directed purely to the praise and service of His Divine Majesty

Fixing a place, a picture for meditation: Today’s picture is the prayer of Jesus. Probably Jesus is praying outside, perhaps he has found a quiet place among greenery. Jesus raises his eyes to heaven and begins to pray. Be with Jesus and listen to his prayer.

Ask for the fruit of meditation: for the desire to know Jesus more and more

1. I glorified you on earth by accomplishing the work that you gave me to do.

Jesus shows glory to his Father by fulfilling the task. If we were to ask why Jesus fulfilled the task, the answer would be: because of love. So, give glory means to show love. It seems that the only way to show love, here on earth, is to make a gesture to the person whom we want to show our love. Next, if you do something good for another person, you show the glory to God, because he lives in each of us.

Perhaps not always our first motivation is love, even in good cases. The driving force behind action can be widely understood anxiety: before an opinion on their own subject, the nervousness of relatives or friends or the need to feed our own ego.

How do you show glory to God, in what acts for loved ones it manifests itself? Think about the motivations behind your actions. Do not judge yourself, just see. Ask God to purify your intentions.

2. Jesus says that eternal life means knowing God and the Son of God. Therefore, eternal life is not something that we can achieve sometime in the future or after death. But it is a life, that we can enjoy here and now. How do you know Jesus and God? In what relationship are you with them? What can help you know God better (eg. a different form or time of prayer, changing your habits …)?

3. Look at Jesus praying to his Father. Listen to how he prays for you, as he asks God for what you need. Jesus does it because of his love to you. What feelings does Jesus’s prayer makes in yourself?

Meditation: St Ignatius encourages in The Spiritual Exercises No. 2 … Because not so much knowledge, but internal feeling and the taste of things please and saturate the soul, that is, we stay where we feel interior movement … and nervously do not try to go on.

The final conversation: Spend a little time at the end, being with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit….as you would with a good friend: sometimes talking, sometimes listening, sometimes being together in silence. Speak to God about your feelings. Remember that times when ‘nothing is happening’ can also be significant. When you’re ready, end your prayer by saying thank you or using words that are familiar,such as the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father)–whichever feels right and comfortable. (The Spiritual Exercises No.54)

 

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I recommend the conference of Gail Dines about the pornographic industry #12

I recommend the  conference of Gail Dines – a world-famous propagator of knowledge about the negative effects of the pornographic industry. It is not only worth listening, but also to reflect on the influence of porn on your perception of yourself and others, the impact on your relationships. I encourage you to look at yourself and your children and think about how to grow through your sexuality in a healthy and beautiful way.

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Meditation J 10,11-16

Ask for the Grace: I will beg God our Lord that all my intentions and actions may be directed purely to the praise and service of His Divine Majesty

Fixing a place, a picture for meditation: See Jesus together with his disciples sitting somewhere on the hill, on the green grass. Listen to Jesus’ story about the shepherd and the sheep. You can imagine this scene: a hired man who runs away seeing a wolf coming to the flock of sheep. The wolf easily catches the sheep and kidnaps. Then see how the good shepherd behaves: when he sees the coming wolf, he stands up for his sheep, and the wolf must go away without the prey. Where are you in this scene?

Ask for the fruit of meditation: that I would like to be a good shepherd for myself and for others, just as Jesus is for me

1. A good shepherd takes care of his sheep, just like Jesus does. He cares for them, for their safety, he wants them to be happy. Each of us is a shepherd for our friends, relatives. What kind of shepherd are you to them? How do you care about them? What are you feeding them (it’s not only about groceries :), but something that gives them strength and support: your time, a good word, etc.)?

2. Each of us has different problems, difficulties, weaknesses, maybe thoughts that slander us, others. Sometimes we also get into distress, worse moods. How do we behave towards ourselves: as a hired man or as a good shepherd? Do we escape, hoping that prayer will do everything? In a sense, yes, but that’s why God gave us reason, hands, feet, other people to use it. How do you take care of yourself in difficult moments?

3. Jesus is the Good Shepherd who cares for his sheep. He desires their unity and gives his life for them. In it manifests his radical love for man, for you. He also wants to be loved. Be with Jesus as you can, here and now.

 

Meditation: St Ignatius encourages in The Spiritual Exercises No. 2 … Because not so much knowledge, but internal feeling and the taste of things please and saturate the soul, that is, we stay where we feel interior movement … and nervously do not try to go on.

The final conversation: Spend a little time at the end, being with God, Jesus, the Holy Spirit….as you would with a good friend: sometimes talking, sometimes listening, sometimes being together in silence. Speak to God about your feelings. Remember that times when ‘nothing is happening’ can also be significant. When you’re ready, end your prayer by saying thank you or using words that are familiar,such as the Lord’s Prayer (Our Father)–whichever feels right and comfortable. (The Spiritual Exercises No.54)

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