Saturday, April 25, 2015

Saints and Meditations...

A painting by
Jose (Jusepe) Leonardo-San Marcos
1601-1652
Honouring
 St. Mark the Evangelist
whose Feast Day is April 25

Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of April 26, 2015

April 26: John 10: 1-10
April 27: Psalm 23
April 28: John 10: 11-18
April 29: 1 John 3: 16-24
April 30: John 10: 22-30
May 1*: John 13: 16-20
May 2: Isaiah 30: 18-21

*Then there's St. Philip and St. James, Apostles...
whose feast day is May 1

St. Philip
A painting by Peter Paul Rubens
from his Twelve Apostles Series, ca. 1611
St. James the Elder
A painting by Peter Paul Rubens
from his Twelve Apostles Series, ca. 1612-1613

Saturday, April 18, 2015

Online Bible Meditation





Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of April 19, 2015

April 19: Psalm 4
April 20: Luke 24: 36 b - 48
April 21: 1 Corinthians 15: 1 - 26
April 22: 1 John 3: 1 - 7
April 23: Psalm 66: 1 - 6
April 24: 1 Peter 4: 12 - 19
April 25: Mark 10: 34 - 40

Sunday, April 12, 2015

For Thomas




The Snow Storm

I walked down by the river, and the deer had left tracks
deep as half my arm, that ended in a perfect hoof
and the shump, shump sound my boots made walking made the silence loud.

And when I turned back towards the great house
I walked beside the deer tracks again.
And when I came near the feeder: little tracks of the birds on the surface
              of the snow I'd broken through.

Put your finger here, and see my hands, then bring your hand and put it in my side.

I put my hand down into the deer track
              and touched the bottom of an invisible hoof.
Then my finger in the little mark of the jay.

-- Marie Howe -- from The Kingdom of Ordinary Time, Norton & Company, NY, 2008



Saturday, April 11, 2015

Online Bible Meditation




Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of April 12, 2015

April 12: Psalm 71: 1-5
April 13: 1 John 1: 1-10
April 14: Acts 4: 32-37
April 15: John 3: 1-8
April 16: Acts 5: 17-26
April 17: 1 John 2: 1-6
April 18: 1 John 2: 7-14

Sunday, April 5, 2015

He is Risen!

     


From the Gospel of John 20: 1, 11-18 (NIV)

      Early on the first day of the week, while it was still dark, Mary Magdalene went to the tomb and saw that the stone had been removed from the entrance...
Now Mary stood outside the tomb crying. As she wept, she bent over to look into the tomb and saw two angels in white, seated where Jesus’ body had been, one at the head and the other at the foot.
They asked her, “Woman, why are you crying?”
“They have taken my Lord away,” she said, “and I don’t know where they have put him.” At this, she turned around and saw Jesus standing there, but she did not realize that it was Jesus.
He asked her, “Woman, why are you crying? Who is it you are looking for?”
Thinking he was the gardener, she said, “Sir, if you have carried him away, tell me where you have put him, and I will get him.”
Jesus said to her, “Mary.”
She turned toward him and cried out in Aramaic, “Rabboni!” (which means “Teacher”).
Jesus said, “Do not hold on to me, for I have not yet ascended to the Father. Go instead to my brothers and tell them, ‘I am ascending to my Father and your Father, to my God and your God.’ ”
Mary Magdalene went to the disciples with the news: “I have seen the Lord!” And she told them that he had said these things to her.

Saturday, April 4, 2015

Online Bible Meditation: Easter Week






Suggested daily Lectio divina - Week of April 5, 2015

April 5 (Easter Day): John 20: 1-10
April 6: John 20: 11-18
April 7: Luke 24: 13-16
April 8: Luke 24: 28-32
April 9: Luke 24: 33-35
April 10: Luke 24: 44-48
April 11: Luke 24: 49-53