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A Spiritual Journey . . . 

1/17/2013

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If today you hear his voice, harden not your hearts.


The reading for today is taken from the Letter to the Hebrews 3:7-14:  It is a good start for our meditation:


"The Holy Spirit says: 'Oh, that today you would hear his voice, 'Harden not your hearts as at the rebellion in the day of testing in the desert, where your ancestors tested and tried me and say my works for forty years.  Because of this I was provoked with that generation and I said, 'They have always been of erring heart, and they do not know my ways.'  As I swore in my wrath, 'They shall not enter into my rest.'"


"Take care, brothers and sisters, that none of you may have an evil and unfaithful heart, so as to forsake the living God.  Encourage yourselves daily while it is still "today," so that none of you may grow hardened by the deceit of sin.  We have become partners of Christ if only we hold the beginning of the reality firm until the end.

Our baptism is a wonderful gift.  Through it, we become children of God and thus heirs to Heaven.  We forget that we can throw this away by kicking God out of our lives.  The above passage reminds us that this is possible, and to then, not harden our hearts through our rebellion, but turn back to God, and then hold the reality of our Baptism firm until the end.  

Today is the memorial of St. Antony of the Desert, the Father of Monasticism, the second hermit, after St. Paul, to enter the desert to be a hermit.  He wrote, "Let us not look back upon the world and fancy we  have given up gross things.  For the whole of earth is a very little thing compared with the whole of heaven."
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