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

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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.

JESUS EATS WITH TAX COLLECTORS AND SINNERS REFLECTION ON THE DAILY GOSPEL 16 FEBRUARY 2013

 

We sometimes forget when we read scripture that the lesson is not just for us to understand the historical Jesus, but that He wants us to be like Him in modern times. This image conjures up who we might be meeting with (or should be meeting with) in our own ministries. Look at the attentiveness on the faces in this picture.

Can we do this for others, the sick, the lost, the broken? They are just sinners like us. Let us pray for all those who need help in the world, who have lost their way and seek the Truth.

REFLECTION ON THE PHARISEES QUESTIONING JESUS 12 FEBRUARY 2012

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When the tradition of the Pharisees becomes more important that doing the work of The Lord, Jesus takes issue with their behavior and quotes scripture from the Old Testament to prove His point.

How often has someone pointed out the “right path” for us, and yet we ignore it because we use some other “tradition” or excuse to do what our will, and not God’s will?