Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 71 (USCCB Sunday Mass readings)
Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time—January 29, 2012 (Scripture Speaks) reflections on the readings.
January 27 – St. Angela Merici
January 28 – St. Thomas Aquinas (American Catholic.org Saint of the Day)
MESSAGE OF HIS HOLINESS POPE BENEDICT XVI FOR THE 46th WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY
If God speaks to us even in silence, we in turn discover in silence the possibility of speaking with God and about God. “We need that silence which becomes contemplation, which introduces us into God’s silence and brings us to the point where the Word, the redeeming Word, is born” (Homily, Eucharistic Celebration with Members of the International Theological Commission, 6 October 2006). In speaking of God’s grandeur, our language will always prove inadequate and must make space for silent contemplation. Out of such contemplation springs forth, with all its inner power, the urgent sense of mission, the compelling obligation “to communicate that which we have seen and heard” so that all may be in communion with God (1 Jn 1:3). Silent contemplation immerses us in the source of that Love who directs us towards our neighbours so that we may feel their suffering and offer them the light of Christ, his message of life and his saving gift of the fullness of love.
On that note, I think I’ll stop here.
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Please also check out the 2012 Diocese of Phoenix Men’s Conference “Defend and Proclaim” to occur on Feb 25th, 2012.
check out the website for all the speakers and info needed – http://www.CMFP.org
Thanks!