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Lord, You’re full, and You fill us with Your kindness, too. You’re great, and we’re small. Tell us, how are we to become like you, then?
- Mechthild of Magdeburg, The Flowing Light of the Godhead
(Listen for the Spirit's response.)
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Heb 5:1-10; Ps 110:1, 2, 3, 4
Mk 2:18-22
The disciples of John and of the Pharisees were accustomed to fast.
People came to Jesus and objected,
"Why do the disciples of John and the disciples of the Pharisees fast,
but your disciples do not fast?"
Jesus answered them,
"Can the wedding guests fast while the bridegroom is with them?
As long as they have
the bridegroom with them they cannot fast.
But the days will come when the bridegroom is taken away from them,
and then they will fast on that day.
No one sews a piece of unshrunken cloth on an old cloak.
If he does, its fullness pulls away,
the new from the old, and the tear gets worse.
Likewise, no one pours new wine into old wineskins.
Otherwise, the wine will burst the skins,
and both the wine and the skins are ruined.
Rather, new wine is poured into fresh
wineskins."
USCCB lectionary
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Reflection on the Scripture |
“No one takes on this honor but only
when called by God.”
Each of us is called in baptism to share in the priesthood of Jesus. Our prayer, our gifts, our works of love are joined to the saving work of Christ the High Priest, and our vocation is to make Christ’s mission of universal forgiveness, love and justice the guiding principle of our
choices. Whether our work takes us into the public eye or is done so quietly that only God and those benefiting from our help ever know of it, nothing done for God in loving and caring for our brothers and sisters is ever unimportant.
“Thank you, Lord, for joining me to your great priestly work. Make me like you in all I do.”
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
-- contact with being --
394. God is known to others as inaccessible, but as regards the sacred humanity, God is attained as the first thing known and as always known.
The Word is God, He is Being
itself.
-- Christ's knowledge: is radically different. It is a knowledge which God evokes in a man by causing that man to be Himself.
-- as compared with human knowledge, it is absolute knowledge.
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