Dear Friends,
In Chapter 8 of the Gospel of Mark, Jesus asks the people
two questions important to Him:
“Who do people say I am?” and shortly after that,” Who do you say I am?” In today’s reflection, I offer a few quotes about Jesus for us to mull over, savor, make our own or lead us to formulate our own thoughts about Jesus.
“Who do people say I am?” and shortly after that,” Who do you say I am?” In today’s reflection, I offer a few quotes about Jesus for us to mull over, savor, make our own or lead us to formulate our own thoughts about Jesus.
Jesus
is the undistorted image of God and the undistorted image of what it means to
be human. (Canon John Townroe)
Jesus is the Feast, the Truth,
the Life, the Covenant, Light, Freedom, Solidarity, the Good News, the Pilgrim, the Way, the Beckoner. (Author unknown)
Christ is the Wisdom of
God. (Saint Augustine)
These four
points about Jesus are the non-negotiables of William O’Malley, S.J.
1.
Jesus is the embodiment of God; God focused all
that is God into Him.
2.
Jesus died in order to rise, to remove the curse
from death and share His eternal aliveness with us.
3.
If we engraft ourselves into Jesus, we take on
His values, which are subversive against all the world holds dear.
4.
We celebrate our oneness with Jesus in a
community of service and a weekly meal.
And from the
pen of Jessica Powers:
The Master Beggar
Worse
than the poorest mendicant alive,
the
pencil man, the blind man with his breath
of
music shaming all who do not give,
are
You to me, Jesus of Nazareth.
Must
You take up Your post on every block
of
every street? Do I have no release?
Is
there no room on earth that I can lock
to
Your sad face, Your pitiful whisper “Please?”
Now it’s
your turn to embrace Jesus with a love-name… and mine.
~Sister Joan Sobala
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