Wise Words on Wednesdays: Love Your Enemies
(Thanks to Neil Obstat for this picture)
Tag: Love
Magic Mike & The opposite of love
This morning while I was having my much-needed coffee, I watched the following homily. It’s a tough, uncompromising comparison between the movie Magic Mike and the message of the Gospel concerning the dignity of the human person:
“The opposite of love is use” – Pope John Paul II
(Thanks to Fear Not Little Flock for this)
Lip-Dub Proposal
Okay, this is going to go viral…
Happy (American) Mother’s Day!
Wise Words on Wednesday: Heart Blueprint
“One may ask if each of us does not really carry in his or her own heart a blueprint of the one that he or she loves. This blueprint is made by our reading, our prayers, our experiences, our hopes, our ideals, by our mother and father. Then suddenly, the ideal becomes concretized and realized in a person, and we say, ‘This is it!'”
– Fulton Sheen
Sunday Lectionary: It’s all you need
Sixth Sunday of Easter: 13th May, 2012
The Readings this week start to wrap up our Easter Season prior to the Feasts of Ascension and Pentecost.
In the First Reading we read about that great moment in Church History when the first Gentiles received baptism and entered the Church. In our Second Reading, we conclude our study of St. John’s First Epistle by hearing about the love of God. Finally, in the Gospel, Jesus unpacks His teaching concerning His metaphor of “the vine and the branches” which we heard last week.
As we come to the Eucharistic table this week let us come with thankful hearts. God’s love is so great that He came to redeem us, call us His friends, pour His Spirit into our hearts and make us members of His family.
Sunday Lectionary: Remain In Me
Continuing my attempts to produce these Lectionary Notes in under four hours…
Fifth Sunday of Easter: 6th May, 2012
The Readings this week focus around life in Christ.
We begin with an account of St. Paul’s failed attempts in Jerusalem to commune with Christ’s Body, the Church. Strangely enough, it turns out that people tend to be a bit stand-offish if you’ve previously tried to kill them! In our Gospel Reading, Jesus teaches his disciples using the metaphor of the vine, showing us that union with Him is essential if we are to live. He gives us a warning too, that if we do not produce fruit, we will be cut off from Him and deprived of His Divine life. St. John restates this sentiment in the Second Reading, exhorting his readers to “love not in word…but in deed”.
Let us come to Mass this week thirsty for the grace of Christ which is communicated through His Church. Let us drink deeply, returning to the world refreshed, ready to share the life of Christ and to bear fruit which will last.
Through Him, and with Him, and in Him…