God created us.
He created us in his image and likeness.
God is life; God is love.
God is life within Himself in the life of the Trinity.
We Christians hear the exhortation to go out and proclaim the good news. As a happy Catholic convert, the best news I have heard in my entire life and that I wish to proclaim is that Jesus is present to us always in the Blessed Sacrament!
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I have had many great teachers in the school of silence especially since I've been coming to this Monastery. One of those teachers was my now deceased sister-in-law and Passionist Oblate Judy Roby.
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“This place is holy,
it is good to be here.”
Set apart,
consecrated,
an aura rests upon it,
a rarified sense of ‘other.’
There are no outsiders with God. As I have prayed and ministered to post-abortive women, I have witnessed the mighty hand of God restore dignity and hope to those who thought of themselves as outsiders not worthy of God’s mercy or deserving of new life.
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Trees of grace
bearing fruit,
wisdom peers from the cave,
into the vastness of the desert.
All things are recapitulated in Christ. All things become one in Him. All things are made new. All through the power of His cross. Time and eternity are juxtaposed in the prayer. Each entity is a pair. There are like verbal crosses. They number five as the wounds of Christ.
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"Father, into your hands I commend my spirit."
"Pater, in manus tuas, commendo spiritum meum."
Lord God,
today I came to the Liturgy.
My feelings were twirling, my thoughts tumbling.
"At the ninth hour Jesus called out in a loud voice: It is finished. His head dropped forward and He died."
"It is finished."
"Consummatum est."
The search was long,
intense.
The hunger was deep,
an agony.
I found your word,
in a poem, in a letter…
in the song of a bird,
in the chatter of a squirrel…
Loving Spirit of God,
sometimes my soul is in celebration,
in music, in song. There is an excitement.
From Your providence, Loving Spirit,
there comes forth a word,
Loving Spirit of God,
You continually invite me to
the Table of the Word.
It is an invitation
to eat frequently..
As the stream can never run dry,
neither is your word
completely consumed by the eating.
When I found your words,
I devoured them;
they became my joy
and the happiness of my heart’
because I bore your name.
O Lord, God of hosts.
"So that the Scriptures might be fulfilled, Jesus said,
‘I thirst’."
"sitio"
In the teachings of Paul
we are called to a deeper response to God.
Such is true in suffering.
The heart is called to love the Suffering, Crucified Christ,
thus the heart that loves
must learn and develop a way of dealing with suffering,
for suffering is a way
into the Mystery of the Crucified Lover.
"Darkness covered the whole earth."
My God, my God, why have you forsaken me?
"Eloi, Eloi, lama Sabacthani"
"Deus meus, ut guid dereliquiste me?"
"Standing at the cross of Jesus was his mother.
"Woman behold your son, son behold your mother."
"Mulier, ecce filius tuus, ecce mater tua."