Soaking in the “Son” light..
Blessings on your Easter Week.
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This Man…
This man was scourged, crucified, and killed;
But an unspeakable love resurrected Him from death and from infamy;
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It placed Him in a glory of love that never weakens and that finds in Him peace, honor, and joy even to the point of ecstasy.
This man was pursued by an inextinguishable hatred in His suffering and in His tomb;
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But He asked for apostles and martyrs to His name in every generation, and there has been no age without them.
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This man is the only human being ever to have founded a kingdom of love on the earth;
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And this man is you, O JESUS CHRIST!
(Father Henri-Dominique Lacordaire +1861)
Have a blessed Easter Week…May you rest in the joy and peace of His resurrection glory and be an apostle in His name!
The Hush of Holy Saturday…
The hush of Holy Saturday descends up on the world..
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As we await with expectant hearts the event that split time in two…
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BC. and AD…
And changed our lives eternally.
The apostles and holy women awaited with hearts in chaos of grief, despair, doubt, confusion and fear.
We await with hearts of expectant joy, praise and thanksgiving.
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We know the VICTORY has been won.
Let the good news burst forth..
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and water the hearts of those in disbelief around us.
His Eyes Meet Yours…
Jesus looks down from the cross…
Scans the crowd…
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His body racked with pain and drenched with blood.
His eyes meet yours…
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What does His gaze say to YOU?
Die with Christ…so that you may LIVE with HIM.
(We know the end of this story don’t we, and we rejoice in the knowing!)
“Yet it was our infirmities that he bore, our sufferings that he endured, while we thought of him as stricken, as one smitten by God and afflicted, but he was pierced for our offenses, crushed for our sins, upon him was the chastisement that makes us whole, by his stripes we were healed.” Is 53:4-5
Peace Be With You…May I Wash Your Feet?…
“When the Lord of the world comes and undertakes the slave’s task of foot-washing…
which is an illustration of the way He washes our feet all through our lives…
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We have a totally different picture.
God does not want to trample on us, but kneels down before us so as to exult us.
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The mystery of the greatness of God is seen precisely in the fact that He can be so small…
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Only when power is changed from the inside, and we accept Jesus and his way of life, whose self is there in there in the action of the foot-washing,
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Only then can the world be healed and the people be able to live at peace with one another.” (Pope Benedict XVI)
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“If I therefore, the master and teacher, have washed your feet, you ought to wash another’s feet. I have given you a model to follow, so that as I have done for you, you should also do.” John 13:14-15
Questions…
It’s not that God doesn’t answer our questions..
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It’s more..
Do we have the COURAGE to ask the questions that need to be asked?…
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And the HUMILITY to accept the answers?
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“Probe me, God, know my heart; try me, know my concerns. See if my way is crooked then lead me in the ancient paths.” Ps 139:23-24
“I Will Make You a Light”….
Jesus is the LIGHT of the world…
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Those who live in His LIGHT…share in His LIGHT…become His LIGHT…
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Do we bring His LIGHT wherever we go?
Do we bring His LIGHT into the darkness about us…
To lead others home?
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“It is too little, he says, for you to be my servant, to raise up the tribes of Jacob, and restore the survivors of Israel; I will make you a light to the nations, that my salvation may reach to the ends of the earth.” Is 49:6
Lay Down Your Cloak….
Palms waving…”Hosanna, Hosanna in the highest.”
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Cloaks laid down to honor the King.
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The King up on a lowly donkey entering Jerusalem to do His Father’s will…
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Ascending upwards to His throne…
His throne up on the Cross.
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Will we too in gratitude and humility lay down the cloaks of our lives?….
And follow Him who chooses the Cross as His throne?
“Rejoice heartily, O daughter Jerusalem! See, your king shall come to you; a just savior is he, Meek and riding on an ass, on a colt, the foal of an ass.” Zech 9:9
“I Will Draw All”…
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“Look at this cross,
So much bigger than the man whose body will be stretched to fit it.
So much bigger than the height of the man who will be lifted up above the earth on it and who,
being lifted up, will draw all peoples to himself.
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Christ receives it with joy because he knows that this is the dead weight that must have crushed humankind had he not lifted it from their backs.
This is the dead wood which at his touch is transformed to a living tree.
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At His touch, the hewn tree takes root again, and the roots thrust down into the earth, and the tree breaks into flower.”
Caryll Houselander (+1954) British poet and spiritual teacher
“And when I am lifted up from the earth, I will draw everyone to myself” John 12:32
When We Forget…
When we forget to worship….
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we forget who we are.
When we lose sight of God…
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we lose sight of what we are.
His Image and His likeness.
(this is what I am listening to today : )
Take Me into the Beautiful by Cloverton
“Then God said: “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Gen 1:26a
through Him with Him in Him... 