One Minute Reflection – 28 December – The Feast of the Holy Innocents – The Fourth Day of the Christmas Octave, Readings: 1 John 1:5-2:2, Psalm 124:2-5, 7-8, Matthew 2:13-18 When Herod realised that he had been deceived by the magi, he became furious. He ordered the massacre of all the boys in Bethlehem and […]
One Minute Reflection – 28 December – “The servant is not greater than his lord” — AnaStpaul
I never realised
but you were speaking to me, softly,
for all those years.
The shyness holding me back,
such constraints of my nativity,
were merely the mystery of your method,
the reason for my being.
And as the child began to learn
through the paucity of upbringing,
the ridicule of others
and the darkness of doubt,
finally he arrived
like a flower in its season:
His truth was always within,
nectar for those who may listen.
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Mysterious ways
The mind of God is working
Humans in their place
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Thought for the Day – 17 December – Meditations with Antonio Cardinal Bacci (1881-1971) The Cave of Bethlehem “Why, asked Bossuet, should the Eternal Word of God, infinitely and everlastingly happy, have deigned to assume in time, the fallen state of humanity?Why should He have chosen, as the scene of His miraculous life of love, […]
Thought for the Day – 17 December – The Cave of Bethlehem — AnaStpaul
Help is on the way
Light will shine all around us
Watch creatures scurry
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