GOODBYE

April 4, 2013 / Michael J. Cunningham / Leave a comment

Farewell, goodbye dear friend,

I didn’t know you well enough, now I have to wait a while to talk again.

Farewell dear Jim,

Stay close to God now you have left, and wait for us, we will be along.

I won’t understand why you left so soon,

Only you and God know why.

Unannounced departures leave a gap,

Wide in the lives left in the room.

Goodbye for now,

We will see you once we are done here.

Living out our lives as best we can,

Without that big wide smile, worn with pride under your instructor’s jacket.

Were Our Hearts Not Burning. Poem/Reflection on the Daily Gospel “On the Road to Emmaus” 3 April 2013

April 3, 2013April 3, 2013 / Michael J. Cunningham / Leave a comment

Were Our Hearts Not Burning, as we walked,

a dusty road, listening to stories of the Torah fulfilled.

Of a Man killed by the romans, in Jerusalem last week,

a friend of ours, you should have known.

Were Our Hearts Not Burning, as we invited Him home,

to break bread and rest awhile, quench Our thirsts.

He took the bread, broken with His identity,

it was the Christ, there with us all along.

Were Our Hearts Not Burning, from this day on,

breaking open new scripture for our souls.

How could we have not seen Him, all that time?

Walking alongside us, teaching, listening on the dusty road.

Jesus … rest in me.

REFLECTION ON Mary Magdalene MEETING JESUS: 2 APRIL 2013

April 2, 2013 / Michael J. Cunningham / Leave a comment

Mary witnessed the beginning of our understanding of the Holy Trinity as she spoke to Jesus after visiting the tomb. We have a tendency to see this as a single discovery that makes our faith real, (she sees Jesus and now believes the unbelievable … that He is risen) but it’s more about the relationship between Jesus, the Son of God, returning to His father. John’s Gospel sees it as Jesus passing into a totally different reality as he begins His journey returning to the Father, as Father and Son are reunited. Through Mary’s exposure in seeing the risen Christ, our understanding of the Blessed Trinity begins to emerge, and the true Christology of Jesus’s mission begins to unfold. Let us meditate on this meeting and the words in this Gospel.