Once again there is a constant prayer in each of our hearts for our precious grandson, David Lanoue. We are all pulling together to support not only David but his parents and two siblings... Simon and Mary. He is going to take a while to recover... as the virus he has is "slow moving" as the doctor told Ruth this morning. Ruth is now determined to get to the real root of David's problems, which he has been struggling with always with his breathing and just not as healthy as we think he should be... we are encouraging them to take him to Rochester... as after our experience with John we see how thorough they are and how they see everything there! Please lift this always happy and sweet little gift from God up for healing with us!
In today's readings... the OT reading is from Isaiah, and just a few verses after the ones my dad read on retreat at a Cenacle Convent in Wayzata about 40 years ago! I am speaking of Isaiah55:1-2. "Ho, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come, buy and eat! Come buy wine and milk without money and without price." In reading these words... my dad, who at the time was a Protestant minister, heard the Lord calling him to join the Catholic church. Within a few months... my parents (my mother had a desire to be Catholic for years - she had a devotion to the Blessed Mother and there is no other place to be if you are called by her)and all 11 of us children took our first communion as new Catholics at the same convent at Christmas Midnight mass! Looking at these scriptures in the years since... I see that they are very Eucharistic!
Today Isaiah speaks of the Word and how is goes forth to "water the earth, making it fertile and fruitful. Giving seed to the one who sows, and bread to the one who eats." verse 10 There are so many places in my life that the Word is all this and more to me! Growing up Protestant... I did read the Bible more than probably Pat did, but I do see that the Word needs to be protected and interpreted so that we do not take it into our own hands and twist it to our own purposes.
I have loved to daily follow the readings of the Church even when I cannot make it to mass that day. Today I use the Magnificat... I mention it often... it has become a powerful source of strength and shared prayer for my husband, Pat and I as well as now our son, John, who is back with us after an 8 month battle with cancer of the brain... The three of us share the morning prayer each morning around the breakfast table and this has been a huge source of strength for us... we always end the time together by reading the Gospel for the day... Christ with us!
I have shared in the past... a big way the Gospel has become so beautiful as Christ here with us in reality... through my daughter, Susan now Little Sister Hallel's, joining the Community of the Lamb...http://www.communautedelagneau.org/communaute-de-l-agneau-anglais.php ... I would encourage you to go and take a look at them on line... they represent Christ knocking on the door of the poor... they take the Gospel from each day and pray over it and meditate on each and every word and line and look at "echoes" throughout the Bible and Church Fathers that reflect more deeply and further on it.... Powerful amazing stuff, and it has made me hunger each night to read the Gospel for the next day as they do in their community and start to take it deep deep down... letting the seed be planted and give forth fruit!
Enough for today... I could obviously go on and on! I would encourage one and all to get a Bible and a list of the readings for the day and look them up and prayerfully read them in the quiet that you carve out for yourself at some point of your day! Just before bed is a nice time to do some spiritual reading for me. And I would definitely call reading the Bible readings for each day the epitome of spiritual reading! You are all in my thoughts and prayers. Jesus we trust in You! Barb and the Verlys
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