2015
Good Morning,
Feast: St.Stephen of Hungary (975-1038)
Exactly 1000 years ago he was building the great country of Hungary, 1500 years ago St.Benedict was writing the Rule and starting the Benedictines, 2000 years ago Jesus was a teenager living with Mary and Joseph learning how to be a carpenter.
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A few words about St. Stephen from the Word Among Us:
"Born as Vaik to the ruling Magyar family, when he and his father were baptized, he was named Stephen. He succeeded his father and attempted to unit the Magyars. He obtained Pope Sylvester II's political support and established the Church in Hungary. He trained clergy, built churches, and was known for his concern for the poor. He was canonized in 1083.
Like him, may we discover ways to UNITE our religious and civic responsibilities."
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Today's First Reading speaks of the final days of Moses--- here's a short Reflection from Give Us This Day Titled: Titled--- Living on the Edge
"Moses has brought his people out of Egypt, having gone through so much with them. Here he is now on the banks of the Jordan River looking over at the Ptomised Land but not being able to personally enter it. No....he can just look at it: 'I have let you feast your eyes upon it, but you shall not cross over.' So there, at the ripe old age of 120, Moses dies, ' his eyes undimmed, his vigor vigor unabated'! Though only at the edge of the Promised Land, Moses had experienced fullness of life, the inevitable consequence of fidelity to the laws and ways of God.
Now, if only we could live and die as Moses did, with incredible faith in God to lead THE WAY in the Journey of Life, giving it our best, yet knowing we will die without fully reaching those earthly goals that we had set out to attain. To live with our eyes undimmed, our vigor unabated, regardless, of our age.
To live with the PASSION of Moses. What's holding us back.
God's unabated live for us sent Jesus to lead us all on a JOURNEY of the heart, to awaken us to the Promised Land in which we already live, the Kingdom of God.
We cross over to listen to the sister or brother who has wronged us and choose God's way of forgiveness and reconciliation.
We are called by God to live each moment with the love of Jesus, to die reconciled with all our brothers and sisters, at peace within our families, our communities, our Church, and our world. What's holding us back"?
Sister Karen Joseph
(Karen Joseph is a member of the Sisters of St. Benedict in Ferdinand, Indiana, where she serves in spirituality ministry.
Peace,
Grandpazach 
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