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Lectio Divina - daily prayer with the scriptures
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Read the scriptures for Thursday of Week Three in Lent at this link.
Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Three in Lent at this link.
Join Maya Bernado, Lucienne Hensel & Colin MacLeod in conversation with John O’Connor reflecting on the scriptures for the Fourth Sunday of Lent.
Read the scriptures for this Sunday at this link.
Read the scriptures for Tuesday Week Three in Ordinary Time at this link.
Read the scriptures for Monday Week Three of Lent at this link.
Read the scriptures for the Third Sunday of the Season of Lent at this link.
Read the scriptures for Saturday of Week Two in Lent at this link.
Read the scriptures for Friday of Week Two in Lent at this link.
Read the scriptures for Thursday Week Two in Lent at this link.
Read the scriptures for Wednesday of Week Two in Lent at this link.
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The pics I use on these daily posts are sometimes snapped by me, and often borrowed from free-use websites. I thought it might be interesting to move towards using only my own snaps, and then only those taken in the past 24 hours. We’ll see how I go.
I took the pic above yesterday morning on an early walk.
Perhaps we find the miracles of Jesus too difficult to understand. How can we cope with what we may not have seen with our own eyes?
Many people cope with the miraculous by reducing it to what they can understand. They say Jesus just increased the blind man’s psychological vision, or opened his eyes of faith rather than actually giving him physical sight.
Over the years I have celebrated hundreds of funerals, many well prepared with family and friends gathering to celebrate the life of the one they love. There are efficient funeral directors, beautiful flowers, glossy brochures, photographs and video presentations, eulogies and even artificial grass and sterilised sand at the graveside.
Most people who celebrate on St. Patrick’s day today think of wearing green and enjoying good Irish music, Guinness and perhaps dancing at an Irish pub. But it’s easy to forget that Patrick was a robust disciple of Jesus Christ who brought the Good News of the ultimate and eternal liberation through Jesus Christ to the people of Ireland.
Christian faith makes sense.
And therefore living in relationship with Jesus Christ is the most sensible life of all.
This is why a spiritually mature person will be both aware of and sensitive to their environment, in touch with what they see, taste, hear, smell and touch.