What of the World

Day's Saints
Amor of Aquitane, Hermit
Benedicta of Origny-sur-Oise, Martyr

Gospel Mt 21:33-43
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people:
"Hear another parable.
There was a landowner who planted a vineyard,
put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower.
Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey.
When vintage time drew near,
he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce.
But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat,
another they killed, and a third they stoned.
Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones,
but they treated them in the same way.
Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking,
'They will respect my son.'
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another,
'This is the heir.
Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.'
They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?"
They answered him,
"He will put those wretched men to a wretched death
and lease his vineyard to other tenants
who will give him the produce at the proper times."
Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures:
The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
by the Lord has this been done,
and it is wonderful in our eyes?
Therefore, I say to you,
the kingdom of God will be taken away from you
and given to a people that will produce its fruit."

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What can love ask of us?

What of our world? I read Isaiah, and I am taken aback, when I compare his words with our reality, and wonder what will happen next. If I turn again to Scripture, I see the Lord telling us to cherish HIm within and we will live in His Kingdom until He changes everything, and the sword will become unknown, and the love of God be all our reality, forever.

You have never known what He plans to do because so few have persevered in penance and sacrifice to unleash the tide of grace to come.

In the lives of the saints, we come upon Saint Benedicta, killed by beheading by her own father.

How insensate and lacking wisdom was the father's mind, killing his own daughter. Yet what else had he done? Nothing is disclosed of what he did, but it must have been unimaginable. But the Kingdom of God will be equally unimaginable, the saints living in inexpressible joy, daring not speak His Name for fear of death, yet transcending mortality like Jesus Himself.

What God builds, He builds to succeed and to last, not like mere humans who one moment decree the death of God's children, and in the next breath proclaim gods that are only murderers.

What is false cannot last, and will fade away, but the blood of those murdered by madmen will cry out praise of God forever, while the evil is forgotten in its buried rage.

What of the World

Day's Saints
Amor of Aquitane, Hermit
Benedicta of Origny-sur-Oise, Martyr

Gospel Mt 21:33-43
Jesus said to the chief priests and the elders of the people:
"Hear another parable.
There was a landowner who planted a vineyard,
put a hedge around it, dug a wine press in it, and built a tower.
Then he leased it to tenants and went on a journey.
When vintage time drew near,
he sent his servants to the tenants to obtain his produce.
But the tenants seized the servants and one they beat,
another they killed, and a third they stoned.
Again he sent other servants, more numerous than the first ones,
but they treated them in the same way.
Finally, he sent his son to them, thinking,
'They will respect my son.'
But when the tenants saw the son, they said to one another,
'This is the heir.
Come, let us kill him and acquire his inheritance.'
They seized him, threw him out of the vineyard, and killed him.
What will the owner of the vineyard do to those tenants when he comes?"
They answered him,
"He will put those wretched men to a wretched death
and lease his vineyard to other tenants
who will give him the produce at the proper times."
Jesus said to them, "Did you never read in the Scriptures:
The stone that the builders rejected
has become the cornerstone;
by the Lord has this been done,
and it is wonderful in our eyes?
Therefore, I say to you,
the kingdom of God will be taken away from you
and given to a people that will produce its fruit."

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What can love ask of us?

What of our world? I read Isaiah, and I am taken aback, when I compare his words with our reality, and wonder what will happen next. If I turn again to Scripture, I see the Lord telling us to cherish HIm within and we will live in His Kingdom until He changes everything, and the sword will become unknown, and the love of God be all our reality, forever.

You have never known what He plans to do because so few have persevered in penance and sacrifice to unleash the tide of grace to come.

In the lives of the saints, we come upon Saint Benedicta, killed by beheading by her own father.

How insensate and lacking wisdom was the father's mind, killing his own daughter. Yet what else had he done? Nothing is disclosed of what he did, but it must have been unimaginable. But the Kingdom of God will be equally unimaginable, the saints living in inexpressible joy, daring not speak His Name for fear of death, yet transcending mortality like Jesus Himself.

What God builds, He builds to succeed and to last, not like mere humans who one moment decree the death of God's children, and in the next breath proclaim gods that are only murderers.

What is false cannot last, and will fade away, but the blood of those murdered by madmen will cry out praise of God forever, while the evil is forgotten in its buried rage.

Palestinians attack Israel

 Palestinians attacked Israel with missiles doing damage and costing lives and Facebook won't allow comments about that or let the words "palestinians" or "Israel" show up on the platform. It is time to seek a change in that kind of management of a public platform.

Palestinians attack Israel

 Palestinians attacked Israel with missiles doing damage and costing lives and Facebook won't allow comments about that or let the words "palestinians" or "Israel" show up on the platform. It is time to seek a change in that kind of management of a public platform.

Embrace

Day's Saints
Bruno, Carthusian
Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

Gospel Lk 10:13-16
Jesus said to them,
"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty deeds done in your midst
had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would long ago have repented,
sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
at the judgment than for you.
And as for you, Capernaum, 'Will you be exalted to heaven?
You will go down to the netherworld.'
Whoever listens to you listens to me.
Whoever rejects you rejects me.
And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

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There is no direction in which you
cannot see God. Let Him embrace
you from within, and see the light of heaven.

Reject sin and pleasure, not God. Listen for His Voice and rejoice that He asks you to participate in what He is creating, because the present reality is going away, and the everlasting reality is close at hand.

Do not shrink from criticism or God's rebuke, because He wishes to save you by His attention and not let you perish in indifference.

You who weep and are tender-hearted, rejoice that He cares for you so much as He does. Many will be redeemed, rescued from evil to stand in safety with God.

The road to salvation comes from loving God, and love of God comes from seeing all He endured on the cross for you. Do not shun the cross, or avoid even thinking about it, but realize how much grace He gives to those who take the time to consider His sufferings. We can comfort Him as He hangs on those pitiless nails, and give Him rest in our willingness to gaze upon His Face in the gloom of day. The day to come will be a day of glory which words cannot describe.

We do not see how great is His love and mercy towards us. Let Him open your heart and your mind to see in His light, and drink the intoxicating wine of His peace and joy. If He has placed you alone with Him and called your name in darkness, it is so He might attract you to His light in which you can see what is hidden now in the pitiful light of this world. A far better light is yours if you will let Him give it to you. We come to Him naked in ourselves, and He clothes us with the sun and fills us with a love that cannot disappoint.

Better it is, that we should be forgotten, forgetting the world ourselves in order to belong to God and to take part in unity in Him in which there is no sorrow but only love.

Embrace

Day's Saints
Bruno, Carthusian
Blessed Marie Rose Durocher, Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary

Gospel Lk 10:13-16
Jesus said to them,
"Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida!
For if the mighty deeds done in your midst
had been done in Tyre and Sidon,
they would long ago have repented,
sitting in sackcloth and ashes.
But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon
at the judgment than for you.
And as for you, Capernaum, 'Will you be exalted to heaven?
You will go down to the netherworld.'
Whoever listens to you listens to me.
Whoever rejects you rejects me.
And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me."

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There is no direction in which you
cannot see God. Let Him embrace
you from within, and see the light of heaven.

Reject sin and pleasure, not God. Listen for His Voice and rejoice that He asks you to participate in what He is creating, because the present reality is going away, and the everlasting reality is close at hand.

Do not shrink from criticism or God's rebuke, because He wishes to save you by His attention and not let you perish in indifference.

You who weep and are tender-hearted, rejoice that He cares for you so much as He does. Many will be redeemed, rescued from evil to stand in safety with God.

The road to salvation comes from loving God, and love of God comes from seeing all He endured on the cross for you. Do not shun the cross, or avoid even thinking about it, but realize how much grace He gives to those who take the time to consider His sufferings. We can comfort Him as He hangs on those pitiless nails, and give Him rest in our willingness to gaze upon His Face in the gloom of day. The day to come will be a day of glory which words cannot describe.

We do not see how great is His love and mercy towards us. Let Him open your heart and your mind to see in His light, and drink the intoxicating wine of His peace and joy. If He has placed you alone with Him and called your name in darkness, it is so He might attract you to His light in which you can see what is hidden now in the pitiful light of this world. A far better light is yours if you will let Him give it to you. We come to Him naked in ourselves, and He clothes us with the sun and fills us with a love that cannot disappoint.

Better it is, that we should be forgotten, forgetting the world ourselves in order to belong to God and to take part in unity in Him in which there is no sorrow but only love.

Sunrise

 

SUNRISE IN SEATTLE OCTOBER 5TH, 2023.
May God bless you abundantly with His gifts.