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Tuesday, March 19, 2024

Spirituality: Wendell Berry from "I go among the trees and sit still" in SABBATHS

I go among the trees and sit still.

All my stirring becomes quiet

around me like circles on water.

My tasks lie in their places

where I left them, asleep like cattle.

Sunday, March 17, 2024

Photo: Our Lady on Montserrat


 

Prayer: Reinhold Niebhur

O God, give us grace to walk humbly and save us from pretension and every arrogant folly. You have made us and not we ourselves. Help us to remember the limits of our power and our wisdom, but help us also to do our duty within the limits of our power and our wisdom.

Saturday, March 16, 2024

Prayer: From the Iona Community, off the coast of Scotland

Deep peace of the running wave to you 
Deep peace of the flowing air to you 
Deep peace of the quiet earth to you 
Deep peace of the shining stars to you 
Deep peace of the Son of peace to you

Friday, March 15, 2024

Photo: Montserrat, Spain


 

Poem: D.H. Lawrence from The Hands of God

It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. 
But it is a much more fearful thing to fall out of them … 
Save me, O God, from falling into the ungodly knowledge of myself as I am without God. 
Let me never know, O God let me never know what I am or should be when I have fallen out of your hands, the hands of the living God … 
Save me from that, O God!
 Let me never know myself apart from the living God!

Thursday, March 14, 2024

Photo: Spanish Streets


 

Spirituality: “The Cross as a Symbol of Christian Faith” by Pope Francis

 Those who die with Jesus shall rise again with Jesus. The cross is the door to resurrection. Whoever struggles alongside him will triumph with him. This is the message of hope contained in Jesus’ cross, urging us to be strong …. The Christian cross  … is a call to the love with which Jesus sacrificed himself to save humanity from evil and sin.

In this Lenten season, we contemplate with devotion the image of the crucifix, Jesus on the cross; this is the symbol od Christian faith, the emblem of Jesus, who died and rose for us. Let us ensure that the cross marks the stages of our Lenten journey in order to understand ever better the seriousness of sin and the value of the sacrifice by which the Savior has saved us all.

 

The Blessed Virgin was able to contemplate the glory of Jesus hidden in his humanness. May she help us stay with him in silent prayer, to allow ourselves to be enlightened by his presence, so as to bring a reflection of his glory to our hearts through the darkest nights.

 

Source: Angelus, 12 March 2017