February 9, 2016

                Psalm Response

                How lovely is your dwelling
                    place, Lord, mighty God!
 

Psalm 84: 3-5, 10-11

Better one day in your courts
    than a thousand at my own devices,
to stand on the threshold of God's house
    than to live in the tents of the wicked.

For Yahweh God is a rampart and shield,
    he gives grace and glory;
Yahweh refuses nothing good
    to those whose life is blameless.

                R. Today the snow lay about like a
                beautiful picture, undisturbed, soft and
                white and so very pretty. On the
                once barren ground and the place
                looking so shabby and the cold winter
                night – now there was a freshness
                that was so glimmering and looking
                so pure and undisturbed.

                    Do you remember the Passion of
                the Lord? The dying and rising of our
                Savior. His Body was torn to shreds,
                His Blood spilled, they hung Him,
                outside on a tree, His hands pierced,
                His precious head crowned with
                thorns and they hung Him as if
                they had no shame, no authority
                over them, as if no one watched and
                they let Him, the Son of God, die
                on a cross.

                    And He had promised on the 3rd
                day He would rise from the dead,
                glistening white and glorified
                wounds, the splendor of that day
                the Victory won. Jesus, triumphant
                rose from the dead.

                    And we go to Mass. The Mass is
                the sacrifice of Calvary, sacramentally
                made present. We approach the altar
                of the Lord. We bring with us
                our wounds, our heartaches, our
                need for His grace. We go to Mass
                and low, He is there, our beloved to
                give us Himself in the Holy Eucharist.
                The Lord is our Shepherd and nothing
                shall we want – He makes the old
                and battered new. He brings the sun
                after a night of darkness, He lays
                the snow, like a new blanket, over
                the rough edges of our lives and
                Oh God has promised to those who love
                and serve the Lord – who
                live as He desires them to live –
                eternal salvation → forever → not for
                a day, or a week, but forever.

                    Lift high your hopes. Do not
                be people caught in despair and
                wounds, look forward to the light
                and the beauty of the crisp, white
                fallen snow – that comes unnoticed
                after a long winter of cold and
                dark barren bushes.

                    Low, comes the light of victory,
                but He shows us the pascal mystery
                for fallen man of death/resurrection!
                Jesus came to show us how He lived,
                how He suffered, how He died and
                rose the 3rd day.

                    Take the sand from the corners
                of your eyes. Remove your stained
                dark glasses – Reach for the purity
                of a new day – See your morning has
                come – you will mourn no more –
                but you must be children of the light,
                walking in the footprints of the Savior,
                you must say "yes" to the morning
                and "yes" to the crisp white fallen
                snow – you must reach for the
                beauty after the night of suffering
                and darkness.

                    And he endured his heartaches,
                he was healed by the hand of God,
                he endured to the end and the
                morning light was stealing across
                a dark sky – like the rolling out
                of the wedding carpet down the isle
                of Church – preparing for the
                eternal wedding of the soul to
                the Divine Bridegroom.
 

                R. Now the light comes and shines
                on the new fallen snow. All the
                barren branches look dazzling
                and crisp with the new day.
                Men's hearts are renewed at the
                table of the Lord. Their eyes
                are open and they see as never
                before –

                    they see the eyes of the heart –
                healing and ready for the marriage
                of a holy soul to Jesus.

                    Jesus comes to the faithful –
                Jesus gives us the Bread of Life
                in the Eucharist and His Word –
                Jesus, Jesus, Jesus. We adore
                You and worship You and
                thank You for helping us to
                prepare for life eternal with
                the Divine Bridegroom.

                The snow came quietly at night,
                a flake at a time, sometimes
                many were coming fast and furious
                but at day break – its beauty
                was certainly seen – a carpet
                of white, a blanket to cover
                the once rough edges, a
                winter wonderland of white
                and clean and laying as only
                snow can, undisturbed and
                so beautiful.

                    And Jesus says:

                    "And I come to make
                all things new – light follows
                dark and again and again are
                the days of your lives –
                until you who lived and fought
                the good fight –
                can rest with Me eternally
                at the Divine Banquet of the Lamb."

                R. And He guided those whose hearts
                    were open, and He allowed them
                    to be tried, but in it all
                    they endured the suffering
                    to embrace the victory of
                    living more and more in His
                    image and likeness.

                In every suffering is a gift, but
                we have to have the mind of the
                Lord working in our hearts to
                see it.

                The days come in light and
                darkness, in green fields
                and in barren bushes,
                in sun lit mornings and
                foggy days –

                All must endure for the gift
                promised by the Savior for
                those who are faithful to
                Him is real and Jesus
                doesn't lie. We are being
                tested and tried and some day,
                having endured and been faithful,
                having lived for God, under God,
                obedient to God –

                    We will wake to know Him
                and be wrapped in the arms
                of the Divine God in the
                beatific vision, but we
                must endure to the end and
                keep our focus on Him, obey
                His commands and be the
                suffering servant of the Lord
                for the day of His light to shine
                on us. Jesus promised the
                faithful to be full of His life eternally.

  February 9, 2016

Dear Friends,

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