This is the primary…affirmation within all of Scripture… To believe that we and our world are good, very good; to take
delight in our lives and in each other; and to live lives that radiate joy.
- Ronald Rolheiser
(Pray for the grace to align your spiritual heart with the heart of Christ.)
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In contrast to many other Lenten prayer guides, this booklet is more than a series of rote meditations. Instead, you will find brief reflections to use as springboards for your own unique meditation on the gospels of the Lenten liturgy. To enhance your meditation, a brief commentary or background on the gospel passage is also provided. - 40 page perfect-bound paperback; 8,400 word digital. - Liguori Publications paperback edition, 1994. Contemplative Ministries, Inc. editions, 2018.
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1 KGS 11:4-13; PS 106:3-4, 35-36, 37 AND 40
MK 7:24-30
Jesus went to the district of Tyre.
He entered a house and wanted no one to know about it,
but he could not escape notice.
Soon a woman whose daughter had an unclean spirit heard about him.
She came and fell at his feet.
The woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician
by birth,
and she begged him to drive the demon out of her daughter.
He said to her, “Let the children be fed first.
For it is not right to take the food of the children
and throw it to the dogs.”
She replied and said to him,
“Lord, even the dogs under the table eat the children’s scraps.”
Then he said to her, “For saying this, you may go.
The demon has gone out of your daughter.”
When the woman went home, she found the child lying in bed
and the demon
gone.
Reflection on the
Scriptures |
My thoughts focus on the Gospel reading and the great faith the Greek woman had. Because of her faith, Jesus gave her a ‘snow day.’ Just start over. The demons are gone enabling her daughter to be well because of her faith.
We all need a snow day every once in a while.
If we can’t have the actual weather, perhaps thinking on Jesus will do give us the hope of a new start.
“Humbly welcome the word that has been planted in you and is able to save your souls.”
- by Fred Hanna
Revelations of Divine
Love - by Julian of Norwich
Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 47
“I beheld the property of Mercy, and I beheld the property of Grace: which have two
manners of working in one love “
BUT our good Lord the Holy Ghost, which is endless life dwelling in our soul, full securely keepeth us; and worketh therein a peace and bringeth it to ease by grace, and accordeth it to God and maketh it pliant. And this is the mercy and the way that our Lord continually leadeth us in as long as we be here in this life which is changeable.
For I saw no wrath but on man’s part; and that forgiveth He
in us. For wrath is not else but a forwardness and a contrariness to peace and love; and either it cometh of failing of might, or of failing of wisdom, or of failing of goodness: which failing is not in God, but is on our part. For we by sin and wretchedness have in us a wretched and continuant contrariness to peace and to love. And that shewed He full often in His lovely Regard of Ruth and Pity. For the ground of mercy is love, and the working of mercy is our keeping in love. And this was
shewed in such manner that I could not have perceived of the part of mercy but as it were alone in love; that is to say, as to my sight.
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