LUKE10.38-42: Now as they went on their way, [Jesus] entered a certain
village, where a woman named Martha welcomed him into her home. She had a
sister named Mary, who sat at the Lord’s feet and listened to what he was
saying. But Martha was distracted by her many tasks; so she came to him and
asked, ‘Lord, do you not care that my sister has left me to do all the work by
myself? Tell her then to help me.’ But the Lord answered her, ‘Martha, Martha,
you are worried and distracted by many things; there is need of only one thing.
Mary has chosen the better part, which will not be taken away from her.’
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Sunday, 16 June 2013
George Herbert
A man that looks on glass,
On it may stay his eye;
Or if he pleaseth, through it pass,
And then the heav’n espy.
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H.U. vonBalthasar, Prayer (San Francisco: Ignatius Press, 1986), pp. 184-85.
becoming light in the Lord (Eph 5.8).
Saturday, 15 June 2013
Making God possible
Disciples are those who, sitting at the feet of Christ,
God’s incarnate & living Word, learn to live in love of God and neighbour,
and who in the grace of the Spirit help others to do likewise. Discipleship is
about the people we become when we have an encounter with the living God, and
what we do as a response to make that kind of transformation possible the lives
of others.[1]
To be transformed in discipleship is also to
make God possible in our encounter with others.[2]
[1] N.B. There’s
a dimension of discovery and joyful sharing the riches found: Matthew 13.44:
‘The kingdom of heaven is like treasure hidden in a field, which someone found
and hid; then in his joy he goes and sells all that he has and buys that
field’.
[2] On the idea priesthood is
about ‘making God possible’, cf. Allan Billings, Making God Possible: The Task of Ordained Ministry Present and Future,
SPCK, 2010.
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