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Arrogance In Perfection        Read:2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Volume 3, Sun.Mar.14,2010

Matilda was the daughter of Count Dietrich of Westphalia and Reinhild of Denmark. She was also known as Mechtildis and Maud. She was raised by her grandmother, the Abbess of Eufurt convent. Matilda married Henry the Fowler, son of Duke Otto of Saxony, in the year 909. He succeeded his father as Duke in the year 912 and in 919 succeeded King Conrad I to the German throne. She was noted for her piety and charitable works. She was widowed in the year 936, and supported her son Henry's claim to his father's throne. When her son Otto (the Great) was elected, .

During a recent trip going up the Canadian Rocky Mountains, we took a two-day train ride and learned about the man largely responsible for the Canadian transcontinental railway.

 

William Van Horne was a powerful but shrewd railway construction manager. He set the record in building 670 kilometers of rail in just 10 months on extremely treacherous terrain. But in the process, one Chinese railway worker died for every kilometer laid.

 

I remembered myself working for a company which I brought to record highs in terms of market volumes and profits. I cared less for relationships with my staff and the employees as long as I got the results I wanted.

 

God humbled me when these companies crashed at the height of the Asian financial crisis. On my knees, God told me that my way to being a perfect manager was not His way. The humbling experience brought about a renewal in me in the way I managed companies and people. I realized that God is a God of mercy. He is slow to anger and full of gentleness and compassion.

Reflection:

 

 

People often say that the end justifies the means. Do you accept this principle at the expense of others?

 

Teach me Your ways, Lord, that I may be worthy of my calling as a Christian.

TODAYS SAINT:  St. Metilda

Today’s Bible Reading : 1st  reading :Joshua 5:9, 10-12

Psalm 34:2-7

2nd Reading:2 Corinthians 5:17-21

Gospel  Luke 15:1-3, 11-32

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 Gospel: Mark 1:7-11

The Bible in one year:Deuterronomy 23-25, Mark 14:1-26

 she persuaded him to name Henry Duke of Bavaria after he had led an unsuccessful revolt. She was severely criticized by both Otto and Henry for what they considered her extravagant charities. She resigned her inheritance to her sons, and retired to her country home but was called to the court through the intercession of Otto's wife, Edith. When Henry again revolted, Otto put down the insurrection in the year 941 with great cruelty. Matilda censored Henry when he began another revolt against Otto in the year 953 and for his ruthlessness in suppressing a revolt by his own subjects; at that time she prophesized his imminent death. When he did die in 955, she devoted herself to building three convents and a monastery, was left in charge of the kingdom when Otto went to Rome in 962 to be crowned Emperor (often regarded as the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire), and spent most of the declining years of her life at the convent at Nordhausen she had built. She died at the monastery at Quedlinburg on March 14 and was buried there with Henry. Her feast day is March 14th.

 

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