Daily Retreat 10/03/09
2009 Oct 3 Sat:Ordinary Weekday/ BVM
Bar 4: 5-12. 27-29/ Ps 68(69): 33-35. 36-37/ Lk 10: 17-24
From today’s readings: “As your hearts have been disposed to stray from God, turn now ten times the more to seek him.... The Lord listens to the poor.... I say to you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it....”
Jerusalem, Our Mother
Hardly anything in the Bible comes across as impersonal in any way. On the contrary, Sacred Scripture is essentially intimate and personal, so that even events that happened so long ago and words uttered so long ago seem so close and connected to us (this is one of the reasons that the God’s Word appeals even to non- believers).
In this section of the book of Baruch, Jerusalem is personified as a mother bewailing yet also consoling and encouraging her captive children. She insists that her children understand the nature and awful gravity of their sins, but she also implores that her children realize where their hope for salvation lies - in turning back to God ten times the more!
Read the entire 4th and 5th chapters to appreciate the poignancy of this "mother’s" message, and realize how much God’s Word is intimate and personal for YOU!
Bar 4: 5-12. 27-29/ Ps 68(69): 33-35. 36-37/ Lk 10: 17-24
From today’s readings: “As your hearts have been disposed to stray from God, turn now ten times the more to seek him.... The Lord listens to the poor.... I say to you, many prophets and kings desired to see what you see, but did not see it, and to hear what you hear, but did not hear it....”
Jerusalem, Our Mother
Hardly anything in the Bible comes across as impersonal in any way. On the contrary, Sacred Scripture is essentially intimate and personal, so that even events that happened so long ago and words uttered so long ago seem so close and connected to us (this is one of the reasons that the God’s Word appeals even to non- believers).
In this section of the book of Baruch, Jerusalem is personified as a mother bewailing yet also consoling and encouraging her captive children. She insists that her children understand the nature and awful gravity of their sins, but she also implores that her children realize where their hope for salvation lies - in turning back to God ten times the more!
Read the entire 4th and 5th chapters to appreciate the poignancy of this "mother’s" message, and realize how much God’s Word is intimate and personal for YOU!
posted by FrPitstick | 10/02/2009
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