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Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.
- Paul Brunton, Perspectives
(Our Advent "work") |
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Is 2:1-5; Ps 122:1-2, 3-4b, 4cd-5, 6-7, 8-9;
Mt 8:5-11
When Jesus entered Capernaum,
a centurion approached him and appealed to him, saying,
“Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, suffering dreadfully.”
He said to him, “I will come and cure him.”
The centurion said in reply,
“Lord, I am not worthy to have you enter under my roof;
only say the word and my
servant will be healed.
For I too am a man subject to authority,
with soldiers subject to me.
And I say to one, ‘Go,’ and he goes;
and to another, ‘Come here,’ and he comes;
and to my slave, ‘Do this,’ and he does it.”
When Jesus heard this, he was amazed and said to those following him,
“Amen, I say to you, in no one in Israel have I found such faith.
I say to you, many will come from the east and the west,
and will recline with Abraham, Isaac, and
Jacob
at the banquet in the Kingdom of heaven.”
USCCB lectionary
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Reflection on the Scripture |
“They
shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks.”
In Isaiah’s idyllic vision — a world where nations no longer wage or even train for war — the peoples of the world are resourceful participants in its transformation, refashioning weapons into farm
implements. But how can we dismantle the modern war machine, bound as it is to our economy and mindset? We should not be put off by the enormity and complexity of this task; rather, the scale of the challenge highlights our necessary participation in it. Let us begin by imagining our world retooled for peace. As we walk in the light of the Lord, let us see clearly our role as ambassadors of peace.
“For willingness to be agents of God’s love and justice, we pray.”
- from
preacherexchange.com
mycatholic.com
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Theological Gems from Emile Merch's Theology of the Mystical Body - selected by Jim and Tyra Arraj
Book III: Christ
Chapter 13: Revelation and the Trinity
378. If a person is to know the Trinity, he must also know himself as knowing it.
To see what is most vital and central in revelation, we must turn our eyes to what is deepest in Christ, that is, His personality; and this personality is exclusively that of the Second Person in the
Trinity.
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