Κάποια μέρα: This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to...→
This, I submit, is the freedom of a real education, of learning how to be well-adjusted. You get to consciously decide what has meaning and what doesn’t. You get to decide what to worship.
Because here’s something else that’s weird but true: in the day-to-day trenches of adult life, there is…
This is an amazing quote, and I was surprised when I got to the bottom and saw who wrote it (but that prob just shows my ignorance of DFW and his work).
“God’s one-of-a-kind job description is that God actually uses our problems to lead us to the full solution. God is the perfect Recycler, and in the economy of grace, nothing is wasted, not even our worst sins and our most stupid mistakes.”
Richard Rohr
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Send forth, O Lord, the Lamb, the Ruler of the earth, from the Rock of the desert unto the mountain of the daughter of Sion.
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Emítte Agnum, Dómine, Dominatórum terræ, de Petra desérti, ad montem fíliæ Sion.
” It finally dawned on me that, throughout Advent, we are pushing and calling on our Lord to come back. Come back! Like, for real. Antiphon 2 for Tuesday of the fourth week of Advent.“
People of Zion behold, the Lord is coming to save all nations; and the Lord shall cause you to hear his majestic voice for the joy of your heart.
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Populus Sion, ecce Dóminus véniet ad salvándas gentes: et audítam fáciet Dóminus glóriam vocis suæ, in lætítia cordis vestri.
” Second week of Advent“Having faith in God means having faith in his timing”
She believes them!
The glory of the anawim (Hebrew for “the poor of Yahweh”) is their salvation by God alone. The anawim, the little ones, know they cannot do it or do it alone. They rely on others. Their greatest blessing is not what they have accomplished but what God has done for them (read Zephaniah 3:11-20).
When Mary appeared to the poor native, Juan Diego, on this day in 1531, she chose not to speak to the clergy, to the educated, to the Spanish oppressors, but to one of the uneducated and oppressed ones, just like herself. She knew the pattern well.
For Luke, Mary is the exemplary “poor one of Yahweh,” for what has been accomplished in her is far beyond her own worthiness or power. And so, after the angel has said it, after Elizabeth has said it, Mary too proclaims how blessed she herself is. She believes them! And then Juan Diego believes her! Thus, the divine mirroring passes through history.
—From Richard Rohr’s meditation today
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Sion is the city of our strength, the Savior will be its wall and bulwark: open the gates, for God is with us, alleluia.
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Urbs fortitúdinis nostræ Sion, Salvátor ponétur in ea murus et antemurále: aperíte portas, quia nobíscum Deus, allelúia.
” Second week of Advent
