breakfast

Job 9:1-12,14-16; Ps 88 Let my prayer come before you, Lord; Luke 9:57-62


Breakfast with Benedict.  This is a meditation booklet i have found my self enjoying over the past few weeks.  Each day i flip open the book andI break my fast with some delicious well prepared instruction and teaching from the Successor of Peter.

This morning in the selection for the day, Pope Benedict was speaking about why he chose the name Benedict.  Two reasons he listed: to create a spiritual bond with Benedict XV who steered the church during WWI, a person our Pope noted as a courageous and authentic prophet of peace.

How do we become courageous and authentic prophets of peace?

Secondly, he chose the name Benedict because of St. Benedict who reminds us of the indispensable Christian roots of culture and civilization, the one who in his rule of life stated, "prefer nothing to the love of Christ."

Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.

Here is nice way of cleaning up our lives and removing the garbage that clings to us along the way.  As  JEsus reminds us in the gospel today, "No one who sets a hand to the plow and looks to what was left behind is fit for the kingdom of God."

How often do we look to what is left behind?  How often do we find ourselves longing for that which is no longer an option if we follow Christ?

Prefer nothing to the love of Christ.