Friday 10th Week of Ordinary Time

Whispers in the Wind. 1 Kings 19:11-16

God told Elijah to stand on the mountain for He was going to be passing by.

And God was not in the powerful wind

Or the earthquake

Or the fire.

But in the still whispering sound.

Until we can calm our hearts and souls from all the noise of the world,

and the until we can silence our own passions and desires

We will never hear the still small voice of God

Whisper in our ear.

Thursday 10th Week of Ordinary Time

 

Anger leads to Fire Mt. 5:20-26

Jesus warns his disciples against the sin of anger,

Because those who are angry will be liable to judgment.

This is because Anger is like a Fire that can easily burn out of control.

And when it does it can lead to Gehenna and the fires of hell.

Better to make Peace before the Judgment

And be reconciled,

Rather than risk the fires of Gehenna where one will not be released until the last penny is paid.

Wednesday 10th Week of Ordinary Time

 

One against 450 1 Kings 18:20-39

Elijah was the last Faithful prophet in Israel.

All the other 450 prophets had gone over to worship the false god of Baal.

It does not matter what everyone else is doing or believing;

It does not matter if we are the only one.

Faithfulness is not a matter of following the crowd ;

But of standing alone against all odds.

And still believing!

Tuesday 10th Week of Ordinary Time

 

The Jar of Flour shall not go empty. I Kings 17:1-7

The Widow of Zarephath had nothing.

Only a jar with a handful full of flour.

But Elijah came along and told her to take what little she had

And fix him some bread.

And because of her generosity,

God was generous to her

And her jar never ran out of flour.

Even in the worst drought.

Generosity is a gift given by those who have little,

Not by those who have abundance.

For the poor can be generous even in their poverty

For God will be generous in return.

Monday : Mary Mother of the Church

 

Mary Mother of the Church

We all have birthdays.

And we have birthdays because we all have mothers!!

The birthday of the Church is Pentecost.

Pentecost is the day when the Disciples,

Having been filled with the Holy Spirit,

“came out” of the upper room into the world.

Before Pentecost, the Disciples were gathered in prayer around Mary,

Their spiritual Mother preparing for the coming of the Holy Spirit, her Spouse,

Upon them.

For through the union of Mary and the Holy Spirit, Jesus was conceived,

So once again at Pentecost through the union of Mary and the Holy Spirit,

Each one of us is conceived in her heart.

And this is why Mary is the Mother of the Church,

Of all those born of the Spirit. Jn. 3:5

Pentecost

 

In the Jewish Tradition, Pentecost was a holiday commemorating the giving of the Law to Moses on Mount Sinai.

It was a day that changed everything for Israel.

For on that Day, Israel and God became one.

They made a Covenant with each other,

Like a marriage;

God would be Israel’s God,

And Israel would be God’s people.

And there would be no other.

Israel would love the Lord with all their heart and soul and mind and strength . Deut 6

But they didn’t.

They repeatedly broke the laws and loved other gods instead.

so Jeremiah said,

One Day, “God will write the Law not on stone, but in your hearts!”Jer. 31:33

And that is what happened at Pentecost when the Holy Spirit came to dwell in the hearts of the Apostles.

With Pentecost, God now lives and moves and Has His being “in” us.

God is as close to us as the breath we breathe.

God is no longer someone out “There.”

But now someone in “Here.”

If God however is someone who dwells within us,

Then why does God seem so far away at times?

Because we love other things more than God!

St. Augustine once prayed.

Too late have I loved You. Too Late have I loved you!

O God You were within me but I was in the world.

You were with me, but I was not with you.

You called and shattered my deafness.

Your Light put my blindness to flight.

I tasted you, and now I hunger and thirst for you.

You touched me, and set me on fire.

Too late have I loved you!

For so many years Augustine was looking for God,

But God was within him all along.

For so many years Augustine was looking for Love,

But loving all the wrong things.

And then one day, he had his Pentecost and

The Spirit of Love, set him on fire!

And all He could say after all those wasted years was,

“Too Late have I loved you!”

Saturday 7th Week of Easter

 

The Gift of Wisdom

The Gift of Wisdom gives one the ability to have insight into people and situations that are not obvious to the average person.

So many things are hidden in life and not obvious.

But the Gift of Wisdom is given only to those who diligently search for her,

For She does not throw her pearls before swine,

But only to those who appreciate Her riches,

And seek them above all else.

Come Holy Spirit and give us the Wisdom that comes from God alone.