Our true home is in the present moment. The miracle is not to walk on water. The miracle is to walk on the green earth in the present moment. Peace is all around us--in the world and in nature--and within us--in our bodies and our spirits. Once we learn to touch this peace, we will be healed and transformed.
- Thich Nhat Hanh, Living Buddha, Living Christ
(How much at home are you in the present moment? Pray the grace to be here now in love.)
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God and I: Exploring the Connections Between God, Self and Ego, by Philip St. Romain
Led By: Philip St. Romain, on Zoom
Dates: Thursday October 22,29 November 5,12 and 19
Time: 12:05 – 12:55 p.m. CST (Feel free to eat your lunch while on the zoom meeting)
Fee: $20.00
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EPH 1:1-10; PS 98:1, 2-3AB, 3CD-4, 5-6
LK 11:47-54
The Lord said:
“Woe to you who build the memorials of the prophets
whom your fathers killed.
Consequently, you bear witness and give consent
to the deeds of your ancestors,
for they killed them and you do the building.
Therefore, the wisdom of God said,
‘I will send to them prophets and Apostles;
some of them they will kill and persecute’
in order that this generation might be charged
with the blood of all the prophets
shed since the foundation of the world,
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah
who died between the altar and the temple building.
Yes, I tell you, this generation will be charged with their blood!
Woe to you, scholars of the law!
You have taken away the key of knowledge.
You yourselves did not enter and you stopped those trying to enter.”
When Jesus left, the scribes and Pharisees
began to act with hostility toward him
and to interrogate him about many things,
for they were plotting to catch him at something he might say.
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Reflection on the Scriptures |
St. Paul in this Letter to the Ephesians expresses “Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us in Christ with every spiritual blessing in the heavens”! It is his own Magnificat of experiencing profoundly his gratitude of the knowledge and union with Christ that was his to proclaim. In love through Christ, Paul tells us, we are adopted by God through Christ! All praise and
glory! Take a moment to take that in!
Jesus, to whom we give praise and glory, a prophet in his own time has grown bolder as we find him in conversation with the Pharisee’s and Scribes. “Woe to you…” He has definitely gotten under their skins challenging the hypocrisy of their religious leadership from a historical context. Perhaps this is where St. Teresa, upon praying with Scripture, got her courage to speak out during the Reformation and
Counter Reformation of her time! Not the best time in history with the Spanish Inquisition in full force!
“Woe to you, scholars of the law! You have taken away the key of knowledge.” Wow! Where might we find the foundation for our courage to speak out to both civil and religious authority. These times when there is clearly a need to point out hypocrisy, and to restore balance, harmony, justice, Peace, the foundation of a country, or the Gospel truth may be something to consider. “The Lord has made His
Salvation known.” It is ours to live up to it! Or will it be WOE TO US?
- by Sr. Candice Tucci
Revelations of Divine Love
- by Julian of Norwich
Sixteenth Revelation, Chapter 82
"In falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love "
BUT here shewed our courteous Lord the moaning and the mourning of the soul, signifying thus: I know well thou wilt live for my love, joyously and gladly suffering all the penance that may come to thee; but in as much as thou livest not without sin thou wouldest suffer, for my love, all the woe, all the tribulation and distress that might come to thee. And it is sooth. [334] But be not greatly aggrieved with
sin that falleth to thee against thy will.
And here I understood that [which was shewed] that the Lord beholdeth the servant with pity and not with blame. For this passing life asketh not to live all without blame and sin. He loveth us endlessly, and we sin customably, and He sheweth us full mildly, and then we sorrow and mourn discreetly, turning us unto the beholding of His mercy, cleaving to His love and goodness, seeing that He is
our medicine, perceiving that we do nought but sin. And thus by the meekness we get by the sight of our sin, faithfully knowing His everlasting love, Him thanking and praising, we please Him:--I love thee, and thou lovest me, and our love shall not be disparted in two: for thy profit I suffer [these things to come]. And all this was shewed in spiritual understanding, saying these blessed words: I keep thee full surely. And by the great desire that I saw in our blessed Lord that we shall live in
this manner,--that is to say, in longing and enjoying, as all this lesson of love sheweth,--thereby I understood that that which is contrarious to us is not of Him but of enmity; and He willeth that we know it by the sweet gracious light of His kind love. If any such lover be in earth which is continually kept from falling, I know it not: for it was not shewed me. But this was shewed: that in falling and in rising we are ever preciously kept in one Love. For in the Beholding of God we fall not,
and in the beholding of self we stand not; and both these [manners of beholding] be sooth as to my sight. But the Beholding of our Lord God is the highest soothness. Then are we greatly bound to God [for] that He willeth in this living to shew us this high soothness. And I understood that while we be in this life it is full speedful to us that we see both these at once. For the higher Beholding keepeth us in spiritual solace and true enjoying in God; [and] that other that is the lower
Beholding keepeth us in dread and maketh us ashamed of ourself. But our good Lord willeth ever that we hold us much more in the Beholding of the higher, and [yet] leave not the knowing of the lower, unto the time that we be brought up above, where we shall have our Lord Jesus unto our meed and be fulfilled of joy and bliss without end.
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