Scripture, Reflection and Prayer for Friday, August 13, 2010

[God] has given us a new birth...into an imperishable, unsullied and unfading inheritance, kept in heaven for you.
- 1 Peter 1:3-4

Reflection: You have within you everything that you need to purchase the Kingdom of Heaven. Joy will be purchased by your sorrow, rest by you labor, glory by you humiliation, and eternal life by your passing death.
- St. Augustine

Prayer: Loving Father, teach me how to make every event on earth lay up treasures for me in heaven. Help me to endure sorrows, labors, humiliations, and death willingly so as to attain heaven.

From: Every Day Is A Gift (Catholic Book Publishing Corp., New York)