Conference Spiritual Reading 11 Jan 2021

 

Spiritual Reading for January 11, 2021 - selected by Deacon Steve

“And the deepest level of communication is not communication, but communion. It is wordless. It is beyond words, and it is beyond speech, and it is beyond concept. Not that we discover a new unity. My dear, we are already one. But we imagine that we are not. And what we have to recover is our original unity. What we have to be is what we are.”

“Thomas Merton: A Book of Hours”, Kathleen Deignan CND, ed., Sorin Books, Notre Dame, Indiana, 2007, p. 162

Introduction to the Liturgy of the Eucharist

 Wonderful explanation by Archbishop Durocher.

Conference Spiritual Reading - December 14, 2020

 

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“O’ Adonai, God of the Covenant, and King of Israel, You appeared to Moses in the flame of the burning bush, and you gave the sacred law on Mount Sinai. Come now! With an outstretched arm, redeem us! - O Antiphon from Vespers, 18 December

Christ, the Lord, who is God Most High and Son of God, was at work with the Father during the early days of Israel, in the time of the first Covenant. He comes to us now, establishing a New Covenant in our hearts, with the task of delivering us from the power of Satan and bringing us into His kingdom.  

To Moses, God appeared in a flaming bush in the desert and as thunder and lightning on the mountain. To us, He appears in a humble piece of bread – the Eucharist. Do we realize the fire and flame that comes to us?

We are called to accept this fire and flame into our being, so that we can go forth and, in every step of ours, shed this flame, this fire of love, upon all the earth so that it may be renewed. For that is the desire of Christ the Lord!”

Catherine Doherty, “Donkey Bells: Advent and Christmas,” Madonna House Publications, Combermere, Ontario