The soul, like the body, lives by what it feeds on.
- Josiah Gilbert Holland
(How are you feeding your soul these days?)
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ACTS 13:13-25; PS 89:2-3, 21-22, 25 AND 27
JN 13:16-20
When Jesus had washed the disciples' feet, he said to them:
"Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master
nor any messenger greater than the one who sent him.
If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it.
I am not speaking of all of you.
I know those whom I have chosen.
But so that the Scripture might be fulfilled,
The one who ate my food has raised his heel against me.
From now on I am telling you before it happens,
so that when it happens you may believe that I AM.
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send
receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me."
Reflection on the Scriptures |
Stories arrive from many sources. Tales are passed down by family members until no one is left to answer our questions. From religion, history, and literature come figures that shape us: Ignatius, Terese, Eleanor, Walker, Eudora, Simone, Dorothy, Vanier, Vincent, Flannery, and Kavanaugh. We feel the impact of another’s life, and that story stays with us. We
are less isolated than supposed. A tribe travels with me. No one makes this journey alone.
Jesus washed their feet a last time. Still on his knees he said once again: remember me. I AM. I am the one beside you. Should you reject me, I will remain.
Jeanne Schuler
Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of Norwich
Fourteenth Revelation, Chapter 58
“All our life is in three: Nature, Mercy, Grace.’ The high Might of the Trinity is our Father, and the deep Wisdom of the Trinity is our Mother, and the great Love of the Trinity is our Lord”
I beheld the working of all the blessed Trinity: in which beholding I saw and understood these three properties: the property of the Fatherhood, the property of the Motherhood, and the property of the Lordhood, in one God. In our Father Almighty we have our keeping and our bliss as anent our natural Substance, which is to us by our making, without beginning. And in the Second Person in skill and wisdom we have
our keeping as anent our Sense-soul: our restoring and our saving; for He is our Mother, Brother, and Saviour. And in our good Lord, the Holy Ghost, we have our rewarding and our meed-giving for our living and our travail, and endless overpassing of all that we desire, in His marvellous courtesy, of His high plenteous grace.
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