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Partaking of God, by Denis Edwards, reflects on the relationship between God and creation. Using the Trinitarian theology of St. Athanasius, it explores God’s suffering with creatures, the humility of God in creation, church teaching on the human soul in relation to neuroscience, and grace and original sin in relationship to evolution. It culminates in a Christian theology of ecological conversion.
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"Now let the heavens be joyful,
Let earth her song begin:
Let the round world keep triumph,
And all that is therein;
Invisible and visible,
Their notes let
all things blend,
For Christ the Lord is risen
Our joy that hath no end."
- John of Damascus
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Acts 2:36-41; Ps. 33:4-5, 18-19, 20 and 22; Jn 20:11-18
R. The earth is
full of the goodness of the Lord.
Upright is the word of the LORD,
and all his works are trustworthy.
He loves justice and right;
of the kindness of the LORD the earth is full.
See, the eyes of the LORD are upon those who fear him,
upon those who hope for his kindness,
To deliver them from death
and preserve them in spite of famine.
Our soul waits for the LORD,
who is our help and our shield.
May your kindness, O LORD, be upon us
who have put our hope in you. UCCB Lectionary
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The resurrection of Jesus is the foundation of our hope - the hope that we will see God face to face and share in his everlasting glory and joy. "Without having seen him you love him; though you do not now see him you believe in him and rejoice with unutterable and exalted joy. As the outcome of your faith you obtain the salvation of your souls" (1 Peter 1:8-9). Do
you recognize the Lord's presence with you, in his word, in the "breaking of the bread," and in his church, the body of Christ?
"Lord Jesus, may I never fail to recognize your voice nor lose sight of your presence in your life-giving word."
DailyScripture.net
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The Cloud of Unknowing, by Anonymous
That right as by the defailing of our bodily wits we begin more readily to come to knowing of ghostly things, so by
the defailing of our ghostly wits we begin most readily to come to the knowledge of God, such as is possible by grace to be had here. Moses ere he might come to see this Ark and for to wit how it
should be made, with great long travail he clomb up to the top of the mountain, and dwelled there, and wrought in a cloud six days: abiding unto the seventh day that our Lord would vouchsafe for to shew unto him the manner of this Ark?making. By Moses’s long travail and his late shewing, be understood those that may not come to the perfection of this ghostly work without long travail coming before: and yet but full seldom, and when God will vouchsafe to shew it.
But that that Moses might not come to see but seldom, and that not without great long travail, Aaron had in his power because of his office, for to see it in the Temple within the Veil as oft as him liked for to enter. And by this Aaron is understood all those the which I spake of above, the which by their ghostly cunning, by help of
grace, may assign unto them the perfection of this work as them liketh.
- Chapter 70
(The term, "ghostly" = "spiritual".)
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