Category Archives: love/mercy of God
The sturdiness of God
From Fr. André Louf: “The Hebrew word for faith (emûnah) derives from the stem emeth, faithfulness, one of God’s greatest attributes. God is merciful and faithful (hesed we’ emeth, Gen 24.27). We might as well say, tender and tough. For emeth evokes the image of a rock on which we can lean or build. God …
But if we find grace
Judas, Peter because we are all betrayers, taking silver and eating body and blood and asking (guilty) is it I and hearing him say yes it would be simple for us all to rush out and hang ourselves but if we find grace to weep and wait after the voice of morning has crowed in …
Loving with Mary
This morning as I woke up, I began thinking again about contemplating our Lord’s Passion with Mary. I was immediately struck by the thought of how much of her time and love was spent through these difficult days in loving those that Christ loved. Peter would surely have flown to her after his denial. How …
Entering Holy Week
Entering Holy Week by Catherine Doherty. This is the hour of faith. We are going to need faith, because Holy Week, in a manner of speaking, will show us the reign of the prince of darkness, who rejoiced on Good Friday because he killed God, or so he thought. One picture has haunted me throughout …
” . . . slain with such fire of love”
“St. Catherine of Siena ‘speaks of the crucified Jesus as “slain with such fire of love. . . as seems insatiable. Yet still he thirsts, as if saying: ‘I have greater ardor and desire and thirst for your salvation that I am able to show you, [even] with my Passion.’ “ Catherine could only descrive …
No obstacles for the Beloved
The love of our Beloved for us: One morning during the daily Bible reading on our mission compound in Palestine, our little Arab nurse read from Daily Light a quotation from the Song of Songs, “The voice of my Beloved! behold, he cometh leaping upon the mountains, skipping upon the hills” (Song of Songs 2.8). …
First and foremost
I am struck, on this Feast of Exaltation of the Holy Cross, by Sr. Ruth Burrows meditation in Magnificat. She clarifies the message of the cross: “Holding up the cross, bidding us gaze into that bleeding, humiliated face, the Holy Spirit’s focus is not first and foremost on suffering, of even on sin and its …
“It is ours to be gazed upon . . .”
“This is a story told of a mother and her little daughter in Trinidad. They are the poor of the earth, and the mother takes great care each evening to launder the one well-worn dress that her daughter wears to school day after day. Each morning, as the little girl leaves the front door to …
“Behold, God’s love for you!”
I am reading a fascinating book on the Eucharist by Dr. Brant Pitre, Jesus and the Jewish Roots of the Eucharist. In one section of the book, Dr. Pitre illustrates the connection between the Eucharist and the Bread of the Presence from the Temple. God had commanded the Israelites to keep twelve loaves of bread …
Another footnote
[Note: the first time I tried to post this this morning, it crashed. I've never had that happen with Word Press. Makes me wonder how important this post may be for one of you . . .] I recently posted about a footnote that had grabbed me. The other night–the eve of Divine Mercy Sunday–some …
