Two words worth our pondering and prayer...
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4/9/11
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WORD for April 28
Click on the bible above to find the readings for the Fifth Sunday of Easter and brief commentary on them.
A Sung Blessing
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...and I wept too...
ReplyDeleteit is definitely helpful to read the weekend's readings before I go to Mass-
on a sort of separate note, as time goes on, sometimes I feel like instead of understanding MORE, I realize how very little I understand-
this is unsettling-
but, also, I do have moments when, even in the confusion, I have insights and sparks of connections that give me hope...
is this "normal"? (feeling that I understand so little)
I want to believe that it's the desire to want to understand, the effort to try to get closer to God, that counts-
The scriptures are inexhaustibly deep... the further we delve into them the more we realize how much more there is...
ReplyDeleteThe legend has it that, a few years before his death, Raymond Brown, probably the pre-eminent Scripture scholar of his day, was asked what he truly believed, given all that he had done to examine the Scriptures in a scientific and literary fashion.
ReplyDeleteHis response: "Jesus loves me, this I know, 'cause the Bible tells me so."