THE LAMENT OF CLEOPAS

 

Christ's followers misread Him. Following the disaster of the crucifixion, the disciple Cleopas lamented, "We had been hoping He was the Man to liberate Israel."

Cleopas thought on a human level, as did his peers.  Jesus Christ transcended to the divine level, as does God the Father and God the Holy Spirit.

As Isaiah 55:8-9 tells us, God's Thoughts are not our thoughts, nor are our ways His Ways.  For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are God's Ways higher than our ways, and His Thoughts higher than our thoughts.

                                                   - Luky Whittle, 2021

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MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD

 

                             MY KINGDOM IS NOT OF THIS WORLD

In John's gospel, Jesus tells Pilate that His Kingdom does not belong to this world. 

For His Kingdom is the preserve of the soul.

                                                  - Luky Whittle

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THE ANGELUS

Morning, and noon, and night, its music rings

      Across the countryside, the busy town;

      From the sun's rising to its going down,

The steady silver challenge ever sings.

There's faith and hope wherever it gently swings;

       Wherever it strikes, remembrance shall awake;

        How many men, in listening, shall forsake

For that sweet interval, a world that brings -

Only regret and emptiness. Its falling

Like some eternal song on the summer air,

May whisper to a wanderer:  "Come to prayer!"

Until his loneliness will heed its calling.

How many a time, that bell, its message throwing

Has pierced with bright-winged hope some winter's 

            snowing!

                                                           - Blanche Yvonne Mosler

                                                      From "God's Mother and Mine"

                                                     Mary Immaculate. 1946. Page 125

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