Daily Retreat 11/23/06
2006 Nov 23 Thu: Thanksgiving Day/ Clement I, pp, mt/ Columban, ab, ms/ Bl Miguel Augustín Pro, p, r, mt
Rv 5: 1-10/ Ps 149: 1b-2. 3-4. 5-6a and 9b/ Lk 19: 41-44.
Options for Thanksgiving: Sir 50: 22-24/ 1 Chron 29:10bc, 11, 12/ Col 3:12-17/ Jn 15:9-17
From today’s readings: “The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has triumphed,
enabling Him to open the scroll with its seven seals.... The Lamb has made us a kingdom of priests to serve our God.... They will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
Time of Visitation
Jesus Christ is true man, and true God. Over the centuries, countless heresies have arisen that overemphasized one half of the equation, to the detriment of the other. But the Sacred Scriptures staunchly support both sides, making that the only orthodox position.
For instance, “as Jesus drew near Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it” (Luke 19:41ff) - one of His most poignantly human reactions recorded in the Gospels. But then, as proof of His divine nature, He prophesied with phenomenal accuracy about the future destruction of the city, which occurred in 70 A.D.
As God and as Man, Jesus had labored to awaken Jerusalem to “the time of visitation,” and yet, His revealing grace was refused. But although nothing can change the historical rejection of the Lord’s visitation in the first century, every ensuing age, including our own, is faced with its own manner of divine visitation. And rather than that being a cause for weeping, you and I must do our part in welcoming the Lord’s visitation, thereby making this a time of thanksgiving!
Rv 5: 1-10/ Ps 149: 1b-2. 3-4. 5-6a and 9b/ Lk 19: 41-44.
Options for Thanksgiving: Sir 50: 22-24/ 1 Chron 29:10bc, 11, 12/ Col 3:12-17/ Jn 15:9-17
From today’s readings: “The Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, has triumphed,
enabling Him to open the scroll with its seven seals.... The Lamb has made us a kingdom of priests to serve our God.... They will not leave one stone upon another within you because you did not recognize the time of your visitation.”
Time of Visitation
Jesus Christ is true man, and true God. Over the centuries, countless heresies have arisen that overemphasized one half of the equation, to the detriment of the other. But the Sacred Scriptures staunchly support both sides, making that the only orthodox position.
For instance, “as Jesus drew near Jerusalem, He saw the city and wept over it” (Luke 19:41ff) - one of His most poignantly human reactions recorded in the Gospels. But then, as proof of His divine nature, He prophesied with phenomenal accuracy about the future destruction of the city, which occurred in 70 A.D.
As God and as Man, Jesus had labored to awaken Jerusalem to “the time of visitation,” and yet, His revealing grace was refused. But although nothing can change the historical rejection of the Lord’s visitation in the first century, every ensuing age, including our own, is faced with its own manner of divine visitation. And rather than that being a cause for weeping, you and I must do our part in welcoming the Lord’s visitation, thereby making this a time of thanksgiving!
posted by FrPitstick | 11/22/2006
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