In times of uncertainty, wait. Always, if you have any doubt, wait. Do not
force yourself into any action. If you have a restraint in your spirit, wait until all is clear, and do not go against it.
- Anonymous
(Where in your life are you being called to wait patiently these days?) |
1 PT 5:1-4; PS 23:1-3A, 4, 5, 6
MT 16:13-19
When Jesus went into the region of Caesarea Philippi
he asked his disciples,
"Who do people say that the Son of Man is?"
They replied, "Some say John the Baptist, others
Elijah,
still others Jeremiah or one of the prophets."
He said to them, "But who do you say that I am?"
Simon Peter said in reply,
"You are the Christ, the Son of the living God."
Jesus said to him in reply, "Blessed are you, Simon son of Jonah.
For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my heavenly Father.
And so I say to you, you are Peter,
and upon this rock I will build my Church,
and the gates of the netherworld shall not prevail against it.
I
will give you the keys to the Kingdom of heaven.
Whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven;
and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven."
Reflection on the
Scriptures |
For all followers of Jesus,
there can be no more powerful moment of encounter with the Risen Jesus than the encounter that brings forgiveness. No one but God alone can forgive sins. To encounter forgiveness is to encounter the power of the Risen Lord. The memory of that encounter provides the fuel for our own life of faith and witness to him. Whatever our own particular calling may be, preserving the memory of Jesus’ mercy becomes one of the most important ways we can assure the vitality of that
calling.
Is there a “memory of mercy” that we might call to mind today? Is that a memory that we cherish? How has that “memory of mercy” equipped us for our calling?
- by Richard Gabuzda, S.J.
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 “
For I beheld the property of mercy, and I beheld the property of grace: which have two manners of working in one love. Mercy is a pitiful property which belongeth to the Motherhood in tender love; and grace is a worshipful property which belongeth to the royal Lordship in the same love. Mercy worketh: keeping, suffering, quickening, and healing; and all is tenderness of love. And grace worketh: raising, rewarding, endlessly overpassing that
which our longing and our travail deserveth, spreading abroad and shewing the high plenteous largess of God’s royal Lordship in His marvellous courtesy; and this is of the abundance of love. For grace worketh our dreadful failing into plenteous, endless solace; and grace worketh our shameful falling into high, worshipful rising; and grace worketh our sorrowful dying into holy, blissful life.
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