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Revised Common Lectionary Readings for Sunday, November 27,
2011, the First Sunday of Advent (Year B)
Happy Thanksgiving! Giving thanks for all of our many blessings, let us remember the words of St. Ignatius:
The goal of our life is to live with God forever. God who loves us, gave us life.
Our own response of love allows God's life to flow into us without limit.
All the things in this world are gifts of God, presented to us so that we can know God more easily and make a return of love more readily.
As a result, we appreciate and use all of these gifts of God insofar as they help us develop as loving persons. But if any of these gifts become the center of our lives, they displace God and so hinder our growth toward our goal.
In everyday life, then, we must hold ourselves in balance before all of these created gifts insofar as we have a choice and are not bound by some obligation.
We should not fix our desires on health or sickness, wealth or poverty, success or failure, a long life or short one.
For everything has the potential of calling forth in us a deeper response to our life in God.
Our only desire and our one choice should be this:
I want and I choose what better leads to the deepening of God's life in me.
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St. Ignatius' Prayer for Generosity
Lord, teach me to be generous.
Teach me to serve you as you deserve;
to give and not to count the cost,
to fight and not to heed the wounds,
to toil and not to seek for rest,
to labor and not to ask for reward,
save that of knowing that I do your will.
Your generosity will enable us to continue and expand the vital mission and ministry of Memorial Drive Presbyterian Church in the community. Before you pledge, please prayerfully consider how God has blessed you, and how your stewardship of those blessings is a witness to the abundant grace of Jesus Christ.
Peace of Christ Always,
George
