I expect a post later to the new Sacramento Clergy Write blog (from someone other than me) from our session today. But I will post this, from me, here on my blog. The prompt was from George MacDonald’s Phantastes: “Art rescues nature from the weary and sated regards of our senses.”
Been there.
Done that.
Seen that before.
There is a sense in which this is true – for adults anyway. Maybe not a child. For adults, as we generalize our experience, there really may be “nothing new under the sun.”
Except, of course (more…)
Does Jesus live in you?
I found myself asking that question repeatedly during this past week. How does Jesus presence show itself in my life?
That’s what it means to be a Christian, isn’t it? That Jesus, somehow, takes life in our lives?
I use, in my personal prayer life, The Saint Helena Breviary. A breviary is simply a book of offices, in this case Matins, Diurnum, Vespers and Compline (- in English that’s just Morning Prayer, Noon Day Prayer, Evening Prayer and End of Day Prayer). The Order of St. Helena is named after the Emperor Constantine’s mother, Helena, who is supposed to have found a remnant of the cross Jesus died on during excavations she oversaw in Jerusalem.
She built a shrine with two principal buildings where the Church of the Holy Sepulcher now stands. It consisted of a large basilica used for the Liturgy of the Word, and a circular church known as “The Resurrection” with its altar placed on the supposed site of Jesus’ tomb. In the courtyard connecting these two buildings, to one side, you can see the Hill of Calvary. The shrine was dedicated on September 14, 335. Since then, September 14, yesterday, has been know as Holy Cross Day.
As you might imagine, Holy Cross Day is a big deal (more…)
This is a Vatican translation of the Pope’s address, given in St. Peter’s Square on September 1st, 2013.
If only more church leaders would follow his example!
Pope Francis
source: www.zenit.org…
Dear Brothers and Sisters, Hello!
Today, dear brothers and sisters, I wish to add my voice to the cry which rises up with increasing anguish from every part of the world, from every people, from the heart of each person, from the one great family which is humanity: it is the cry for peace! It is a cry which declares with force: we want a peaceful world, we want to be men and women of peace, and we want in our society, torn apart by divisions and conflict, that peace break out! War never again! Never again war! Peace is a precious gift, which must be promoted and protected. (more…)
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