Post by Wolf on Apr 3, 2014 16:24:36 GMT -8
“I’m sorry, I’ve been told I can’t bring you with me to mass…Riggs said I couldn’t bring you to Brujah domain.”
This meant 2 very different things to Veritas:
1. Those were the last words the kindest kindred in Seattle spoke to him.
2. If he got caught I would owe this 'Riggs' a boon, or the Prince if all things were as they've been said to be.
Veritas passed under the high arches of this humble church for midnight mass, he headed straight for the votive candles. Hands trembling he lit the candle and prayed.
“No one knows where we go when we die. We replace that with faith in you and your grand design, none of us are pure least of all me. Lord please find peace for this one, let her find a home and rest in your kingdom.”
Veritas crammed a hand full of American currency into a donation box and made his way toward the front row.
He began…
“1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a
Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6
Ephesians 5:8-14
John 9:1-41
A reflection on today's Sacred Scriptures:
We're at the halfway point in Lent.
Two weeks ago, we were told to 'Listen up!' This week, the readings tell us to get rid of the darkness, and to learn to see as God sees.
As Father Richard Rohr says in a recent book, "because humans do not see their own truth very well, they do not read reality very well either" As a result of straining away through the darkness, we make many foolish and destructive choices. We're like a person who fails to turn the light on when entering a room. As a result, we knock over tables and chairs, rather than seeing how to use them.
In our first reading today, God sends Samuel to go to the house of Jesse in Jerusalem to anoint that son whom God has chosen to succeed Saul as King. God warns Samuel, "Do not judge from his appearance or from his lofty stature, because I have rejected him." Not as man sees, does God see; because man sees the appearance, but the Lord looks into the heart." Eventually, Samuel finds the least likely son, David, and anoints him King.
If we are to really see clearly, we need to let Jesus heal us of our blindness as He did the man born blind in today's Gospel. Even though Jesus was right in front of him, the blind man couldn't see Him until Jesus removed the scales from his eyes, and restored his sight. Only later, after much harassing from the narrow-minded Pharisees, was he able to really see spiritually, and to see Jesus as the Son of God. It was all possible when he saw through the "lens" of the Holy Spirit.
We are invited to celebrate this Sunday with joy, because through our baptism and confirmation we have been invited to live in the light and to act with the power of that light. In the second reading from St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians, we read,
"You were once in darkness,
but now you are light in the Lord.
Live as children of light,
for light produces every kind of goodness
and righteousness and truth."
Through our Lenten discipline, God will remove the darkness in our lives, and help us to respond in faith and love to the Truth about ourselves and our world. Then we will see as God sees!”
Aequitas sat down next to his brother and a soft voice spoke to him in his mind.
“My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”
“O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.”
Hood pulled low a tear fell down his cheek, Veritas rose and returned home.
This meant 2 very different things to Veritas:
1. Those were the last words the kindest kindred in Seattle spoke to him.
2. If he got caught I would owe this 'Riggs' a boon, or the Prince if all things were as they've been said to be.
Veritas passed under the high arches of this humble church for midnight mass, he headed straight for the votive candles. Hands trembling he lit the candle and prayed.
“No one knows where we go when we die. We replace that with faith in you and your grand design, none of us are pure least of all me. Lord please find peace for this one, let her find a home and rest in your kingdom.”
Veritas crammed a hand full of American currency into a donation box and made his way toward the front row.
He began…
“1 Samuel 16:1b, 6-7, 10-13a
Psalm 23:1-3a, 3b-4, 5, 6
Ephesians 5:8-14
John 9:1-41
A reflection on today's Sacred Scriptures:
We're at the halfway point in Lent.
Two weeks ago, we were told to 'Listen up!' This week, the readings tell us to get rid of the darkness, and to learn to see as God sees.
As Father Richard Rohr says in a recent book, "because humans do not see their own truth very well, they do not read reality very well either" As a result of straining away through the darkness, we make many foolish and destructive choices. We're like a person who fails to turn the light on when entering a room. As a result, we knock over tables and chairs, rather than seeing how to use them.
In our first reading today, God sends Samuel to go to the house of Jesse in Jerusalem to anoint that son whom God has chosen to succeed Saul as King. God warns Samuel, "Do not judge from his appearance or from his lofty stature, because I have rejected him." Not as man sees, does God see; because man sees the appearance, but the Lord looks into the heart." Eventually, Samuel finds the least likely son, David, and anoints him King.
If we are to really see clearly, we need to let Jesus heal us of our blindness as He did the man born blind in today's Gospel. Even though Jesus was right in front of him, the blind man couldn't see Him until Jesus removed the scales from his eyes, and restored his sight. Only later, after much harassing from the narrow-minded Pharisees, was he able to really see spiritually, and to see Jesus as the Son of God. It was all possible when he saw through the "lens" of the Holy Spirit.
We are invited to celebrate this Sunday with joy, because through our baptism and confirmation we have been invited to live in the light and to act with the power of that light. In the second reading from St. Paul's letter to the Ephesians, we read,
"You were once in darkness,
but now you are light in the Lord.
Live as children of light,
for light produces every kind of goodness
and righteousness and truth."
Through our Lenten discipline, God will remove the darkness in our lives, and help us to respond in faith and love to the Truth about ourselves and our world. Then we will see as God sees!”
Aequitas sat down next to his brother and a soft voice spoke to him in his mind.
“My son, do not forget my teaching, but let your heart keep my commandments, for length of days and years of life and peace they will add to you. Let not steadfast love and faithfulness forsake you; bind them around your neck; write them on the tablet of your heart. So you will find favor and good success in the sight of God and man. Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and do not lean on your own understanding.”
“O Lord, in the morning you hear my voice; in the morning I prepare a sacrifice for you and watch.”
Hood pulled low a tear fell down his cheek, Veritas rose and returned home.
