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I want to share the story of Jesus’ last…

  • January 29, 2023
  • by peterdsnow

Don’t I wish someone had thought to charge their phone or recorder. Nobody thought to record any of it, and all we can do is depend on eye witnesses recallng events after ten, twenty or fify years. Yet the more I examine the text, especially that of St. John, I do believe we can develop a clearer idea of what went down. Start with the procession. Did Jesus order a rent-a-donkey? Who was the procession aimed at? Did Jesus cleanse the Temple as reported in Mark, Luke and Matthew or did John have it right? Who wanted Jesus dead and why? Was Caiaphas a Pharisee or a Sadducee? That business with the coin, were the Pharisees trying to catch him out or were they relieved?

Then there is the last supper. Who was invited, Mary, his mother and the rest of his entourage? Was the upper room at John Mark’s mother’s house? What part did the Essenes play in the background? I am only beginning, for we have the last supper the garden of Gethsemane, the trial and then Easter Saturday. There is so much to question, and here and there there are hints that help us build a better idea of what happened.

For Lent I am going to post in my blogg, The Red Sock Ministry, the story of the last week in Jerusalem, wth answers to some of the questions and guesses as a result of my research. I think the story hangs together. I found I changed my mind about what I thought had happened.  Will you join me for Lent? I’ll try to post a chapter or two each week.

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An assertion of life after the plague of 1345…

  • January 29, 2023
  • by peterdsnow

Julian of Norwich   c 1320-1400

 

As truly as  God is our Father,

So just as truly is he our mother.

 

In our Father, God Almighty, we have our being;

In our merciful Mother we are re-made and restored.

 

Our fragmented lives are knit together;

And by giving and yielding ourselves, through grace, to the Holy Spirit, we are made whole.

 

It is I, the strength and goodness of Fatherhood.

It is I, the wisdom of Motherhood.

It is I, the light and grace of Holy love.

It is I, the Trinity, it is I, the unity.

 

It is I the sovereign goodness in all things.

It is I who teach you to love.

It is I who teach you to desire.

It is I who  am the reward of all true desiring.

 

All shall be well,

And all shall be well,

And all manner of things shall be well.

 

 

Also another prayer on the Trinity:

Saint Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179)

 

Praise to the Trinity – which is sound and life

And Creatress of all things within their very life,

And the praise of the angel throng

And lofty splendor of hidden mysteries,

Which are unknown to human minds –

It Is, and within all things, it is life.

Where to begin? If you are reading this you are like me, desirous of a spiritual experience. Point # 1. Spirituality is experienced and not a spectator sport. Daily comment on spirituality

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