Friday, April 14, 2017
GOOD FRIDAY
Welcome !
This whole week,
HOLY WEEK,
daily postings are offered here for reflection
as we focus on our theme,
HOLINESS IS WHOLENESS.
These reflections are a follow up to the blog posted here last Saturday, April 8, 2017,
WHOLE IN ONE.
It would be helpful to read that piece first.
Just scroll down past the postings for Monday through Thursday.
Blessings,
John Frank
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A man who was completely innocent,
offered himself as a sacrifice of others,
including his enemies,
and became the ransom of the world.
It was a perfect act.
Mahatma Gandi
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Unless the grain of wheat
falls to the earth and dies,
it remains just a grain of wheat.
But if it dies,
it produces much fruit.
Jesus
( John 12; )
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The ones who counts are those who -
though they may be of little renown -
respond to and are responsible for
the continuation of the living spirit,
each in the active stillness
of his sphere of work.
Martin Buber
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These pains you feel are messengers.
Listen to them.
Rumi
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When I let go of what I am,
I become what I might be.
Lao Tze
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Faith means being grasped
by a power that is greater than we are,
a power that shakes us and turns us,
and transforms us and heals us.
Surrender to this power is faith.
Paul Tillich
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ELOI, ELOI
MY GOD, MY GOD
There, where was the frame of an infant,
the limbs of a lad, the mature mind of a man.
There, from cradle to tomb, dwelt God.
There, on human lips, from a human heart,
spoke the Word of God.
There, beyond the compass of a created soul,
the uncreated Spirit of God.
And there he hung, scorned and dying,
on the abominable cross where we set him.
Yet there, and thence forever, he proclaims
the irrefutable, irresistible Gospel of God,
calling mankind, calling me:
- summoning us to undying victory
along roads where no trumpets sound,
nor temporal profits count,
but faith only, and faithfulness unto death;
Eloi, Eloi.
O my Lord, lead me safe through all the tests,
the darknesses, the pains.
Help me hold fast the beginnings of my confidence
firm unto the end.
Eloi, Eloi, stretch forth thy wounded hands
to succor mine.
Never wilt though forsake me,
never let me forsake thee,
my living, only God.
Palm Sunday Eucharist 2017
St. Peter's Church
Morristown, New Jersey
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My life is not about me;
it is about God,
and God is about Love.
Richard Rohr
Daily Email
December 2,2016
Center for Action and Contemplation
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