Wise Words On Wednesday: Stored up and unused
“The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.” – St. Basil the Great
Month: April 2012
Sunday Lectionary: A Father who keeps His Promises
Third Sunday of Easter: 22nd April, 2012
Happy Easter! Yes, it’s still Easter! This week we celebrate the third Sunday of the Easter season as we continue on the road towards Pentecost.
For our Gospel Reading we hear another resurrection account, this week from St. Luke. In it, the Lord appears to His disciples and demonstrates to them that He has risen bodily from the dead. He then “opens their minds” to see how all that had come to pass was the will of the Father, His plan and His promise from the beginning.
In our Responsorial Psalm, David speaks of a God who comes to the rescue, bestowing light and peace to those in trouble. God’s rescuing love finds its fullest expression, of course, in the coming of Jesus Christ and in our First Reading we hear St. Peter proclaim this Good News to the crowd. Peter explains that through Christ’s saving sacrifice can be saved and in our Second Reading St. John reflects upon this and upon our call to respond in obedience to this great love of God.
Feeling Old…
Today is my birthday. I feel old. It makes me sad that the current generation have no idea about the link between these two items…
A Grim Tale (Ananias and Sapphira)
This week’s First Reading describes the communal life in the Early Church:
The community of believers was of one heart and mind, and no one claimed that any of his possessions was his own, but they had everything in common. With great power the apostles bore witness to the resurrection of the Lord Jesus, and great favor was accorded them all. There was no needy person among them, for those who owned property or houses would sell them, bring the proceeds of the sale, and put them at the feet of the apostles, and they were distributed to each according to need. – Acts 4:32-35
Immediately after this extract we read in Acts of the Apostles the contrasting story of Ananias and Sapphira. I posted a link to this video in my Lectionary Notes, but I thought I’d post it again just in case people didn’t see it:
Music for the soul
I just spent a wonderful morning with a good friend. We had breakfast, caught up on news and then spent the rest of the morning playing guitar together and singing. It was absolutely wonderful. There really is something about music which both soothes and enlivens the soul:
“Music is the vernacular of the human soul” – Geoffrey Latham
Why I love Chesterton more and more…
When given the gift of loneliness, which is the gift of liberty, [those who do not appreciate the freedom of having nothing to do] will cast it away; they will destroy it deliberately with some dreadful game with cards or a little ball… I cannot repress a shudder when I see them throwing away their hard-won holidays by doing something. For my own part, I never can get enough Nothing to do – G. K Chesterton
Thanks to Transformed In Christ for the quotation!
Friday Frivolity: How nuns learn to drive
