Daily Reading for September 28 • The Twentieth Sunday after Pentecost

No one can enter into their deepest centre
and pass through that centre into God,
unless they are able to pass entirely out of themselves
and empty themselves
and give themselves to other people
in the purity of a selfless love.

From Seeds of Contemplation by Thomas Merton (Burns & Oates, 1960).

Let the same mind be in you that was in Christ Jesus,
"who, though he was in the form of God,
did not regard equality with God
as something to be exploited,
but emptied himself,
taking the form of a slave,
being born in human likeness." (Philippians 2:5-7)