Hello Everybody,
The building of the foundation, for the proclamation of the Gospel to the ends of the earth. To preach the Good News!!, that our Christ Jesus is the new and everlasting covenant, and we are all saved through Him, with Him and in Him. The start of the church, by a group of men called as apostles, and as friends to Christ in person, born in sin, just as you and I,to carry on and to proclaim the salvation from sin for all, in the name of Jesus Christ, Son of God,with all of their heart, with all of their mind, with all of their person, all of their souls, for the salvation of souls, in such chaotic of times, I guess no different than any other time in history except in its timing, such a pivotal factor when discussing salvation, God only knows....lol.....sounds so cliche'...lol...
Timing, the will of God, when is enough, enough? why now? who did what? where did it all go? what happened? how come? where has the time gone? Jesus knew at the start of time what was,is,to come of our Mother Church on earth. Jesus knew what He was dying for on that cross, Jesus knew what New and Eternal Life is to come for all that are IN HIM, by his conquering of death IN his Body and Blood, Jesus knew of all the trials and tribulations the apostles were to have in their time, just as He does now, this very moment, there is no surprises with Christ, especially with his bride, the Church. The mystery, the shock value, the secrets, the lies are all on us sinful people, NOT with Christ, He knows infinately better. Jesus knows He is the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords, He IS the answer and is its fulfillment, He shall bring His bride home to her Father. That is what the Son died and rose for. REDEMPTION in UNIFICATION!!!!
We need this hope to battle all of the ignorance and sin that is in our societies today. To me, if truth is white and sin is black, then we are each just a big collage of gray. Honestly, for me when things get chaotically foggy because of all the gray, it is just a muddy mess. But in that muddy mess, I can still go to mass, receive our Lord, His Body and His Blood meshes with my body and blood all day. I know He is with me, muddy and all. I take deep refuge in that. The Body and Blood of our Lord, is what we need to always seek and find. I find it very hopeful that Jesus can not be boxed in anywhere. He grows and goes with us. We go through our lives, make our decisions, right or wrong, and the day ends. We grow up and when we look back, we can see in our darkest and most wretched of places in us, we can see and appreciate HOW THE FAITHFULNESS OF GOD PREVAILS. WHY? BECAUSE LOVE NEVER FAILS. That is why today, we are able to , 3000 years later able to take refuge in Christ to re-fortify, to re-sustain, to re-try, to re-charge, to re-do, to renew as a people of Christ here and now. And by all of this refortifying, retrying, recharging and renewal, this is how the Living Body of Christ keeps procreating and regenerating itself, in us, during the circles of our lives here on earth, thereby to the whole Body of Christ, here on earth. Thank you Jesus and Thank you Apostles.
Today 4/24/09, I was reflecting on the Gospel of Luke24:35-48, a few things came to mind. The two apostles are reflecting back to what had happened to them on their way to Emmaus, specifically in the breaking of bread. The impression of that very night at supper, the last for our King. His Body and Blood, as the new and everlasting covenant to all. The forgiveness of sins with unconditonal love.
Jesus gave us his body and blood as the Lamb of God for the salvation of all souls and unification of all. By his conception, life, death and resurrrection, Jesus knew that he is not only going to be present then, but He is present everyday of our lives, not just spiritually but physically tangible in the Eucharist. The giving and receiving of his own body and blood that He gave us back then is what is remembered and celebrated at every mass today. That is why, as Fr. Paul would say, "the mass is the source and summit" of all Christians today, it is Jesus Himself. The Eucharist is the source of life we as a people, so desperately need, to see us through each day. For our Lord to be with us, to guide us, to consume us, to see us through whatever life has to offer. To guide His lambs to serve others in the Body of Christ, every time we receive our Lord, His Body and His Blood meshes with our body and blood, a most precious and personal communion. Then, the love is shared to the Whole Body of Christ, within itself and the Church, in the name of Christ Jesus, for the salvation of souls and the promise of Eternal Life. Thank God.
In reflection again of this gospel of Luke, Jesus says, "Look at my hands and my feet, that it is I myself. Touch mea and see, b ecause a ghost does not have flesh and bones as you can see I have". In this particular part, what struck me most was the use of Jesus' words of "me, myself and I". I humbly feel, which is probably way off but, that the "me" is death, like the death we must face to ourselves each day. The "myself" is life, since Christ is Life Everlasting. The "I" is the resurrection, for if Christ had not rose from the dead, what would the point have been then, we would still be stuck in death, just as St. Paul has stated in his preachings.
Jesus was coming to them, man to man, not like He had before, but as the resurrected Son of Man and Son of God. For all, we are all our own "me, myself and I" because we our own unique and indiviual person. So in Christ Jesus, we get the strength to help us battle with, deal with, the trials and tribulations. He gives us the strength or courage to try to handle all of the" living and dying" and "dying and rising" we do to ourselves everyday. Jesus is there, He will see us and love us through the thick and thin days. I feel by doing so, He is deepening his communion with us, just as He did with the apostles back in the day.
Another thought came to mind when I read, "These are the words that I spoke to you while I was still with you, that everything written about me in the Law of Moses, and in the prophets, and in the psalms must be fulfilled. Then he opened ther minds to understand the Scriptures."(Luke 24:35-48). The Word made Flesh, in person, opening their minds to HIS TRUTHS, from TRUTH ITSELF.....WOW!!!!. All of the apostles to ingest, spread and preach to the people of the saving power of our Lord Jesus. Whom each personally lived with, walked with, experienced, and now ready to go our to the whole world. I tried, but couldn't imagine how Jesus helped/guided each of them in whatever they needed, wherever they were. It had to be craziness, in a holy way of course. I just really thank Jesus for leading them as He did, and how He still leads/guides His Church today.
Truth is freedom, truth can withstand and be stood on, truth is the rock which we take refuge in any season, truth last for all time and ages, universally seasoned and steafast for all of time. Truth is the bar we hold/base our decisions, is it right or wrong? The roots of truth is what we need to cling to, to surrender to, to free us from, or to choke on...lol...The truth roots us in the questions we face in our daily lives, all of the who's, what's, where's, when's, why's, and how comes, the shouldas, wouldas and couldas that come our way. The truth is our definintion to what is right or wrong, the black or white in ourselves.
The truth brings to light all of the "grays" we accumalate in ourselves as well. The realization of the amount of grays in my person, and how much really needs to get white can be overwhelming. But then truly, it must be soaked in the blood of the Lamb, Christ Jesus, its a good grounding for us dirty people to stay grounded in Jesus. Then it becomes not overwhelming but hopeful, I cling to the hope that one day, my robes will be, white just like the people of God. Why? because Jesus loves me, and Jesus is the Eternal Hope that was sent to redeem, make our robes white in His Blood, and save us from eternal damnation. The truth, Christ Himself, is what we hope. He is all we need, because He is not only truth, but perfect Love too. Thank God!!!
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Thursday, February 26, 2009
THE WORD MADE FLESH
Hello everybody,
Reflecting on the gospel reading from last Sunday, as we did in our last gathering, Jesus' response is so captivating to me. His response captivates me even more as I keep pondering it." To REPENT, and to BELIEVE in the gospel."
Then I read our blog notes, and read the line "The power of contemplative prayer in the matrix of our "ordinary lives", in the matrix of the Mystery of God." WOW!!
To believe in the matrix of LOVE. God became flesh, Jesus Christ, becoming not only a DIVINE human vessel, but the matrix ITSELF....LOVE ITSELF....In Jesus, as a spot on the matrix ( His perfect humanity/divinity) makes His being, being every fiber and makeup of the matrix . How? Because He is the Word made flesh. Why? To re-unite His whole family (human and divine) back to His Father Almighty.
Jesus the man, Jesus the person, Jesus the God. The Holy Trinity made flesh. That's why the human nature and divine nature of Christ is so crucial for the inclusivness of eternal salvation. He became a very small and fragile creature, yet large and egotistical in nature, the mere concept of scaling God to human flesh.....unfathomable..... Jesus had to experience/accept this sinful existance of human flesh and human ways, mold it with his divine natures and divine ways, to live, to die, and to rise for all humanity and divinity to be One in the One.
To believe IN Jesus the man. To believe in Jesus the person. To believe in Jesus the God. To BELIEVE IN the summit and culmination of a man, God Himself. He became human, so we can be one flesh IN HIM . To restore/renew/realign our beliefs in our flesh, to believe that we can and do get restored/renewed/realigned in our hearts. To believe in hope, to believe in humble trust, not in ourselves but outside of ourselves, to believe IN LOVE.
The Love that brings us to salvation from sin, and all of its consequences and reprocutions, that have been sewn into our realities by Satan. To believe in hope, to believe in humble trust, not in ourselves but outside of ourselves, to believe in Christ Jesus, who personally purchased for us, eternal hope. Hope, that all of this "matrixing" we are doing, all of the connections, reconnections, disconnections and re-disconnections and re-reconnections in our lifetime, deep down we believe we are being stiched tighter IN Love, being stiched tighter in the mysterious matrix of God, to believe that Jesus truly happens everytime everyday.
The Christ, created to save His people, from sin. To save his people of all generations, through HIS living body and blood, the Eucharist. The Bread of Life. The Cup of Salvation. The New and Everlasting Covenant. Every time we go to communion, and receive Christ Himself, His person, His body, His humanity, we commune with the love of Christ, He in turn loves us to restoration/renewal/realignment in the depths of our beliefs IN HIM, but also FOR HIM.
Glory be to Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
AMEN.
Reflecting on the gospel reading from last Sunday, as we did in our last gathering, Jesus' response is so captivating to me. His response captivates me even more as I keep pondering it." To REPENT, and to BELIEVE in the gospel."
Then I read our blog notes, and read the line "The power of contemplative prayer in the matrix of our "ordinary lives", in the matrix of the Mystery of God." WOW!!
To believe in the matrix of LOVE. God became flesh, Jesus Christ, becoming not only a DIVINE human vessel, but the matrix ITSELF....LOVE ITSELF....In Jesus, as a spot on the matrix ( His perfect humanity/divinity) makes His being, being every fiber and makeup of the matrix . How? Because He is the Word made flesh. Why? To re-unite His whole family (human and divine) back to His Father Almighty.
Jesus the man, Jesus the person, Jesus the God. The Holy Trinity made flesh. That's why the human nature and divine nature of Christ is so crucial for the inclusivness of eternal salvation. He became a very small and fragile creature, yet large and egotistical in nature, the mere concept of scaling God to human flesh.....unfathomable..... Jesus had to experience/accept this sinful existance of human flesh and human ways, mold it with his divine natures and divine ways, to live, to die, and to rise for all humanity and divinity to be One in the One.
To believe IN Jesus the man. To believe in Jesus the person. To believe in Jesus the God. To BELIEVE IN the summit and culmination of a man, God Himself. He became human, so we can be one flesh IN HIM . To restore/renew/realign our beliefs in our flesh, to believe that we can and do get restored/renewed/realigned in our hearts. To believe in hope, to believe in humble trust, not in ourselves but outside of ourselves, to believe IN LOVE.
The Love that brings us to salvation from sin, and all of its consequences and reprocutions, that have been sewn into our realities by Satan. To believe in hope, to believe in humble trust, not in ourselves but outside of ourselves, to believe in Christ Jesus, who personally purchased for us, eternal hope. Hope, that all of this "matrixing" we are doing, all of the connections, reconnections, disconnections and re-disconnections and re-reconnections in our lifetime, deep down we believe we are being stiched tighter IN Love, being stiched tighter in the mysterious matrix of God, to believe that Jesus truly happens everytime everyday.
The Christ, created to save His people, from sin. To save his people of all generations, through HIS living body and blood, the Eucharist. The Bread of Life. The Cup of Salvation. The New and Everlasting Covenant. Every time we go to communion, and receive Christ Himself, His person, His body, His humanity, we commune with the love of Christ, He in turn loves us to restoration/renewal/realignment in the depths of our beliefs IN HIM, but also FOR HIM.
Glory be to Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
AMEN.
Thursday, February 5, 2009
We fishes in the river that goes everywhere
Hello everybody,
I was reading the notes from our last meeting, and as I was reading about the fish in the river, I was really moved by Fr. Francis' analogy. It is so deep. After reflection I have a few thoughts I would like to post.
"The fish in the river does not have a map of the river, it just swims, same with us, we do not need to understand where the river will turn, we are all called to go with the flow and see how that works out." I am quoting from the notes taken.
We are all called to go with the flow, I feel that the "going" IS the map, so to speak. The map, is the map of love, God's map (aka. God's will). The unconditional love of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost which is infinately dimensional, so we can never get lost in the mysterious depths of the river of life or of love itself.
It is that love is so right there, and we(fishies) are so everywhere else, that we don't see it, hear it, think it, or feel it. We need to just be, be there with it. We are just too busy swimming, that is what we are naturally/innately/conditionally made to do. Thank God that God is unconditional.
And for all of the "flowing" that life offers, wether the river is calm or if we are in Mock 5 roaring rapids. God's map is suffice for anything, it always has been and will always be. We just need to learn to trust in the map, to surrender selflessly instead of conditionally, that is how we stay afloat. In doing that, throughout our fishy lives, we will learn that the only way out is through.
We learn to trust in the one thing that is there; in all of our "outs" all of our "throughs" all of our "afloating", the only constant centrality in our everchanging world is CHRIST JESUS. The perfect unconditional love made flesh. The only constant, unchanging, unwavering and unconditional thing we have is LOVE ITSELF (the map,in its perfect essence).
So, in living in a world,where the river is never the same river twice, where each day is its own unique day of its own, where time never stands still, to me shows,why the only constant thing in our reality of ours; is change. And we, by our baptism, have the map of love, to be our guide, our navigator, our lifejacket in all waters (from the calm to the roar of the rapids) OUR GOD IS THERE. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
I would like to express one more personal comment. I quote, "Sometime at some point God gives His fish their map- but a fish with a map doesn't change much (looks cool but makes you much weirder to all the other fish) you just know where but need infinite help....." I agree with the point that we all need infinite help, yes we all do, we are all human born in sin. Which means we are all perfectly imperfect.
I deeply feel that we are all "His fish" and each of our maps, ALL COINCIDE IN THE MAP OF LOVE. I feel that no fish is "weirder" than the next, that is just our own weirdness. From salmon that swim upstream, to the beautiful jellyfish that never see sunlight, to the starfish that is stuck on a rock, from saltwater coral to freshwater feeder fish, WE ARE MADE IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD. That is not weird, its just connected. Isn't that the point of maps to get us from one place to another, I feel in God's map that is how gets us from one moment to the next we just have to humbly trust in the connections. God bless us all. :)
I was reading the notes from our last meeting, and as I was reading about the fish in the river, I was really moved by Fr. Francis' analogy. It is so deep. After reflection I have a few thoughts I would like to post.
"The fish in the river does not have a map of the river, it just swims, same with us, we do not need to understand where the river will turn, we are all called to go with the flow and see how that works out." I am quoting from the notes taken.
We are all called to go with the flow, I feel that the "going" IS the map, so to speak. The map, is the map of love, God's map (aka. God's will). The unconditional love of the Father, Son and Holy Ghost which is infinately dimensional, so we can never get lost in the mysterious depths of the river of life or of love itself.
It is that love is so right there, and we(fishies) are so everywhere else, that we don't see it, hear it, think it, or feel it. We need to just be, be there with it. We are just too busy swimming, that is what we are naturally/innately/conditionally made to do. Thank God that God is unconditional.
And for all of the "flowing" that life offers, wether the river is calm or if we are in Mock 5 roaring rapids. God's map is suffice for anything, it always has been and will always be. We just need to learn to trust in the map, to surrender selflessly instead of conditionally, that is how we stay afloat. In doing that, throughout our fishy lives, we will learn that the only way out is through.
We learn to trust in the one thing that is there; in all of our "outs" all of our "throughs" all of our "afloating", the only constant centrality in our everchanging world is CHRIST JESUS. The perfect unconditional love made flesh. The only constant, unchanging, unwavering and unconditional thing we have is LOVE ITSELF (the map,in its perfect essence).
So, in living in a world,where the river is never the same river twice, where each day is its own unique day of its own, where time never stands still, to me shows,why the only constant thing in our reality of ours; is change. And we, by our baptism, have the map of love, to be our guide, our navigator, our lifejacket in all waters (from the calm to the roar of the rapids) OUR GOD IS THERE. Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Spirit.
I would like to express one more personal comment. I quote, "Sometime at some point God gives His fish their map- but a fish with a map doesn't change much (looks cool but makes you much weirder to all the other fish) you just know where but need infinite help....." I agree with the point that we all need infinite help, yes we all do, we are all human born in sin. Which means we are all perfectly imperfect.
I deeply feel that we are all "His fish" and each of our maps, ALL COINCIDE IN THE MAP OF LOVE. I feel that no fish is "weirder" than the next, that is just our own weirdness. From salmon that swim upstream, to the beautiful jellyfish that never see sunlight, to the starfish that is stuck on a rock, from saltwater coral to freshwater feeder fish, WE ARE MADE IN THE IMAGE AND LIKENESS OF GOD. That is not weird, its just connected. Isn't that the point of maps to get us from one place to another, I feel in God's map that is how gets us from one moment to the next we just have to humbly trust in the connections. God bless us all. :)
Friday, January 16, 2009
Luke 11:27-28 True Blessedness
Hello everybody,
This piece was in "draft status" for a long time, and I have been still pondering The Word made flesh. Here are a few thoughts.
True Blessedness in Luke 11:27-28.
The passage is, " While he was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed."
He replied, "Rather blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it."
Where do we hear this stuff? We hear it in our hearts, in our minds, in our spirits, in our consciences, in the core of ourselves. Through the good times and the bad times we learn to observe it, practice it, fail at it, get up by it, practice hearing it some more......day in and day out. With all of the practicing, in the successes and failures everday, we learn to believe , we see what is right, we see what is true. We believe and start to grow in truth in our sinful lives. The truth, Christ Jesus which gives us balance to the sin we are born in, and are in.
That is our eternal hope, we can experience as a family of Christ, in all of the practicing in listening, the good days and bad days, that our Jesus, is our eternal salvation, our eternal hope, in our internal worlds. Jesus says "BLESSED are those...who hear the word of God and observe it. " I feel that the blessing we grow in, is one of hope, a light in the darkness of sin in our beings, a blessing of hopeful sustenance, on those bad days, where truth is in the dark, yet we can experience the silver lining that lies beyond the darkness, that hope that it is going to be o.k, just stay close to me Christ Jesus, stay close.
I pray Christ stays close to each and every one of you this day, and for all days to come. Amen.
God Bless,
Tyree
This piece was in "draft status" for a long time, and I have been still pondering The Word made flesh. Here are a few thoughts.
True Blessedness in Luke 11:27-28.
The passage is, " While he was speaking, a woman from the crowd called out and said to him, "Blessed is the womb that carried you and the breasts at which you nursed."
He replied, "Rather blessed are those who hear the word of God and observe it."
To hear the word of God, to believe in the Gospel, to hope in the Word made flesh, God made Man, scaled down to each and every person in ourselves, deep down in each of our beings.
To hear the word of God: to hear the little voice, nudge, incline, huntch, pull to do what is right to God, to our neighbor, and to ourselves. What we hear, if it is from God, helps us to keep straight in our daily lives, to keep straight our sinful ways to Jesus. Wether we want to or not? or understand it or not, wether or not we agree with it or not. I humbly feel, that in all of this time all of the wanting, understanding and agreeing becomes pretty trivial in the broad scheme of things, like God's will being done and not our own.Where do we hear this stuff? We hear it in our hearts, in our minds, in our spirits, in our consciences, in the core of ourselves. Through the good times and the bad times we learn to observe it, practice it, fail at it, get up by it, practice hearing it some more......day in and day out. With all of the practicing, in the successes and failures everday, we learn to believe , we see what is right, we see what is true. We believe and start to grow in truth in our sinful lives. The truth, Christ Jesus which gives us balance to the sin we are born in, and are in.
That is our eternal hope, we can experience as a family of Christ, in all of the practicing in listening, the good days and bad days, that our Jesus, is our eternal salvation, our eternal hope, in our internal worlds. Jesus says "BLESSED are those...who hear the word of God and observe it. " I feel that the blessing we grow in, is one of hope, a light in the darkness of sin in our beings, a blessing of hopeful sustenance, on those bad days, where truth is in the dark, yet we can experience the silver lining that lies beyond the darkness, that hope that it is going to be o.k, just stay close to me Christ Jesus, stay close.
I pray Christ stays close to each and every one of you this day, and for all days to come. Amen.
God Bless,
Tyree
Thursday, January 15, 2009
Jesus and His Family- Luke 8:19-21
Hello,
I wanted to also comment on the discussion we had Monday night regarding, Luke8:19-21, Jesus and His Family. Jesus is fully human and fully divine, 2 natures in 1 being.
You know, it reminds me of the Finding in the Temple. The parents looking for their child for a few days, come to find Him in His Father's house, preaching and teaching. When found, Jesus as a boy, was obedient to his parents from then on.
In this scene, Jesus is a grown man, in full swing of his preaching and teaching the people the love of God, while crowds surrounded him. Mom and brothers come to find him, while Jesus is doing the will of His Holy Father.
I humbly feel that maybe why Jesus had to make a distinction to the people was to point out the UNIVERSAL meaning of "Mother" and "Brother" or "Family" ALL in the One Body of Christ.
Versus the "one body" of Christ as a son or a brother, CONDITIONALLY here on earth. Yes, Jesus has two natures, but Jesus used both natures in such perfect and mysterious ways to teach us, by a living and dying and resurrected example, of the infinite depths of UNCONDITIONAL love, which only comes from our Lord our God.
In Jesus making this distinction, I feel that His divinity, His universaltality, takes precedence, this is why such the answer from Christ. At first, to me it is harsh, but really when we reflect on it a little more, Jesus' whole purpose was to save souls and bring us all home. As stated in (Luke 4:43) "To the other town also, I must proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom of God, FOR THIS PURPOSE I WAS SENT." For the salvation and redemption of souls and the forgiveness of all our sins and its consequences, so we may have ETERNAL LIFE. To me, this means all of the families become all one.
What do you guys think?
God Bless,
Tyree
This I feel is why that His death on the cross is the perfect act of love. Using his humanity, his person as the way, the truth and the light to teach us all about our Holy Family and the love we have in them, through Him, Christ Jesus.
Human Family: Jesus, Mary, Joseph, All Past ancestory/lifetimes/generations from the line of David, and of the ancestory that is to come.
Divine Family: Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Angels and Saints, Mother Nature/Cosmos, The universality of all existance, for all of time.
I wanted to also comment on the discussion we had Monday night regarding, Luke8:19-21, Jesus and His Family. Jesus is fully human and fully divine, 2 natures in 1 being.
You know, it reminds me of the Finding in the Temple. The parents looking for their child for a few days, come to find Him in His Father's house, preaching and teaching. When found, Jesus as a boy, was obedient to his parents from then on.
In this scene, Jesus is a grown man, in full swing of his preaching and teaching the people the love of God, while crowds surrounded him. Mom and brothers come to find him, while Jesus is doing the will of His Holy Father.
I humbly feel that maybe why Jesus had to make a distinction to the people was to point out the UNIVERSAL meaning of "Mother" and "Brother" or "Family" ALL in the One Body of Christ.
Versus the "one body" of Christ as a son or a brother, CONDITIONALLY here on earth. Yes, Jesus has two natures, but Jesus used both natures in such perfect and mysterious ways to teach us, by a living and dying and resurrected example, of the infinite depths of UNCONDITIONAL love, which only comes from our Lord our God.
In Jesus making this distinction, I feel that His divinity, His universaltality, takes precedence, this is why such the answer from Christ. At first, to me it is harsh, but really when we reflect on it a little more, Jesus' whole purpose was to save souls and bring us all home. As stated in (Luke 4:43) "To the other town also, I must proclaim the Good News of the Kingdom of God, FOR THIS PURPOSE I WAS SENT." For the salvation and redemption of souls and the forgiveness of all our sins and its consequences, so we may have ETERNAL LIFE. To me, this means all of the families become all one.
What do you guys think?
God Bless,
Tyree
This I feel is why that His death on the cross is the perfect act of love. Using his humanity, his person as the way, the truth and the light to teach us all about our Holy Family and the love we have in them, through Him, Christ Jesus.
Human Family: Jesus, Mary, Joseph, All Past ancestory/lifetimes/generations from the line of David, and of the ancestory that is to come.
Divine Family: Father, Son, Holy Spirit, Angels and Saints, Mother Nature/Cosmos, The universality of all existance, for all of time.
Jesus and His Families- 1-12-2009
Hello everybody,
I just wanted to post a few thoughts that I have learned by our gathering on Monday night. First off I would like to thank God, Jesus, Holy Spirit and the whole Body of Christ in its outpouring of love that They bestow upon us everyday and in everyway. Amen.
O.K. When I sat down Fr. Paul had us reading from the gospel of John, John 19:25. The sorrowful mystery, of the sorrowful moments prior to death on a cross, of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. The WHOLE PURPOSE of his being human , in his divine origin of the ONE, for the ONE. The timing of the scene is so heartbreaking for me, the moments before our Lord dies on the cross. That it was almost finished, his humanity, his living human person exhausted, beat, torn apart and hanging there for our sins and those of the whole world. The reality of the DEPTHS of LOVE our Almighty has for ALL of us, through the birth, life, death and resurrection of our Christ Jesus.
The witnesses there for those precious and sorrowful and most holy moments, Mary his Mother, Mary Magdalene, John the Beloved, and Mary sister. They where there, from the beginning to the end. To witness, as one united family, from up above to down below, the culmination of the Son of Man and the Son of God in the most precious and sorrowful way. "For the Son of Man has come to seek and save what is lost." (Luke 19:10)
I humbly feel that maybe, when Jesus saw his Mother at nears end, feeling all of her pain but loving her all the more. That was his mom, she was there for his first steps, his first wood projects, she taught him the Scriptures that He was to fullfill, and She just loved all the more. That deep deep PERSONAL and HUMAN bond of Mother and Son.
And even a deeper, deeper UNCONDITIONAL and DIVINE bond of Mother and Son, both conceived in and by the Holy Spirit. All for, the WHOLE PURPOSE of the ALMIGHTY GOD. Amen.
Also, in my humble opinion, who better than John, the Beloved to behold His Mother to. I, Tyree, don't feel its bad that all the others ran away, in God's eyes, that was of no surprise, just our own judgemental surprise. The one who needed to be there, was.
I would like to mention John 1:35, The First Disciples. It says, "The next day (after Jesus' baptism), John was there again with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, "Behold, the Lamb of God" . The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus."
John knew. John felt. John was there. John called the name of The Lamb of God. Who takes away the sin of the world. The Lamb of God , who takes away the consequences and reprocutions of sin. The Lamb of God who grants us peace, by his UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. Jesus and John were friends, guy to guy to start, then became heart to heart. That very personal and open relationship those two shared, how precious that must have been, words could never express really. John witnessed many many things in his time with Christ on earth, and with Christ in heaven. That DIVINE bond, of heavenly realities, through and in,The Body and Blood of the Lamb of God for all of humanity and divinity to be ONE. I feel John was the best choice to tend to the Queen Mother on earth.
Mary Magdalene, she was there with Jesus and his disciples as well. She loved Jesus too. How horrible that must have been, to see the man you love doing SO MUCH for love. To stand by and watch. I think it is really cool though that she is the first to see Jesus at the tomb. Jesus spoke to her and was there in his heavenly form, not yet complete because he still had to go to the Father in heaven, that is why she could not touch him.
Not yet complete, but close. Just like the scene at the cross. But she was able to witness her love in his divine and victorious state. Jesus was coming up from his descent to hell, to be glorified on the right hand of the Father, but wanted to show himself to her first, then go tell the guys what has happened. WOW!!! What bonds of human love and divine love, loving as one, man and woman, sinner and the sinless, the imperfect and the perfect merging in love one more time. WOW!!!
Glory and Praise be to God forever and ever!!
Tyree
I just wanted to post a few thoughts that I have learned by our gathering on Monday night. First off I would like to thank God, Jesus, Holy Spirit and the whole Body of Christ in its outpouring of love that They bestow upon us everyday and in everyway. Amen.
O.K. When I sat down Fr. Paul had us reading from the gospel of John, John 19:25. The sorrowful mystery, of the sorrowful moments prior to death on a cross, of our Lord and Savior Christ Jesus. The WHOLE PURPOSE of his being human , in his divine origin of the ONE, for the ONE. The timing of the scene is so heartbreaking for me, the moments before our Lord dies on the cross. That it was almost finished, his humanity, his living human person exhausted, beat, torn apart and hanging there for our sins and those of the whole world. The reality of the DEPTHS of LOVE our Almighty has for ALL of us, through the birth, life, death and resurrection of our Christ Jesus.
The witnesses there for those precious and sorrowful and most holy moments, Mary his Mother, Mary Magdalene, John the Beloved, and Mary sister. They where there, from the beginning to the end. To witness, as one united family, from up above to down below, the culmination of the Son of Man and the Son of God in the most precious and sorrowful way. "For the Son of Man has come to seek and save what is lost." (Luke 19:10)
I humbly feel that maybe, when Jesus saw his Mother at nears end, feeling all of her pain but loving her all the more. That was his mom, she was there for his first steps, his first wood projects, she taught him the Scriptures that He was to fullfill, and She just loved all the more. That deep deep PERSONAL and HUMAN bond of Mother and Son.
And even a deeper, deeper UNCONDITIONAL and DIVINE bond of Mother and Son, both conceived in and by the Holy Spirit. All for, the WHOLE PURPOSE of the ALMIGHTY GOD. Amen.
Also, in my humble opinion, who better than John, the Beloved to behold His Mother to. I, Tyree, don't feel its bad that all the others ran away, in God's eyes, that was of no surprise, just our own judgemental surprise. The one who needed to be there, was.
I would like to mention John 1:35, The First Disciples. It says, "The next day (after Jesus' baptism), John was there again with two of his disciples, and as he watched Jesus walk by, he said, "Behold, the Lamb of God" . The two disciples heard what he said and followed Jesus."
John knew. John felt. John was there. John called the name of The Lamb of God. Who takes away the sin of the world. The Lamb of God , who takes away the consequences and reprocutions of sin. The Lamb of God who grants us peace, by his UNCONDITIONAL LOVE. Jesus and John were friends, guy to guy to start, then became heart to heart. That very personal and open relationship those two shared, how precious that must have been, words could never express really. John witnessed many many things in his time with Christ on earth, and with Christ in heaven. That DIVINE bond, of heavenly realities, through and in,The Body and Blood of the Lamb of God for all of humanity and divinity to be ONE. I feel John was the best choice to tend to the Queen Mother on earth.
Mary Magdalene, she was there with Jesus and his disciples as well. She loved Jesus too. How horrible that must have been, to see the man you love doing SO MUCH for love. To stand by and watch. I think it is really cool though that she is the first to see Jesus at the tomb. Jesus spoke to her and was there in his heavenly form, not yet complete because he still had to go to the Father in heaven, that is why she could not touch him.
Not yet complete, but close. Just like the scene at the cross. But she was able to witness her love in his divine and victorious state. Jesus was coming up from his descent to hell, to be glorified on the right hand of the Father, but wanted to show himself to her first, then go tell the guys what has happened. WOW!!! What bonds of human love and divine love, loving as one, man and woman, sinner and the sinless, the imperfect and the perfect merging in love one more time. WOW!!!
Glory and Praise be to God forever and ever!!
Tyree
Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Good afternoon everybody. As I was reflecting back to our meeting on monday, something hit me. I began to think of how God is telling his people through Saint Peter(2peter3:8-14) "BUT according to his promise, we await new heavens and a new earth, in which righteousness dwells."
"new heavens":
What I humbly began to ponder was Genesis, and the Fall Stories. First, the fall of the angels. The beginning of sin, the chasm of heaven and hell. The choice that 1/3 of the angels made to follow Lucifer. The only reason there will be new heavens is by the blood of the lamb. Each drop, wiping clean everything heaven, hell and the chasm.
Just like Peter said, "and the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar." I like to think its the roar of the lamb coming in full glory, to bring us ALL home. Where is home? Eternal life. This is how Jesus cleans up all of divinity and heavens before we go home.
"a new earth"
In the fall story of Adam and Eve, the start of original sin, its consequences and reprocutions of it, for all humanity. This is a fall that keeps falling. A fall we are all still and will be part of to this very day, why? Because we are human and have free will. The choice and choices we make in our lives, past present and future keeps us wretchedly sinful.
The only reason there will be "a new earth" is by the Body and Blood of the Lamb made flesh, who is OUR CHRIST JESUS. It makes me very humbled and grateful that God came down in the flesh to save us from sin, from its consequences and reprocutions, basically from this human life and death to give us eternal life with no death.
Jesus not only saved us by dying on that tree, and by rising from the dead. He conquered death by dying and desending into hell, so we would not have to. Through his desecnt, I feel is where Jesus Christ cleaned up the consequences and reprocutions and deeds of all evil, and loved it for the good of all. All this love was and is needed for us humans to make it through the gates, TOGETHER AND UNIFIED UNDER THE ONE.
"and the earth and everything done on it will be found out"
This reminded me of the tower of babel. All of this babel we do, we say, we live, we mingle with in our lifetimes. The sin we live within ourselves. Then, we(humanity)have to live together on this planet. Then, we as a family of God, perserve and reform our cultures, our societies, our families, so again, we stayed unified under the one risen Christ Jesus, FOR ALL OF TIME. TO ANY END OF ANY EARTH AND BEYOND. All thanks and praise and thanksgiving to the Father Almighty, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
"where righteousness dwells"
This is why need Jesus soo much, He is the ONLY perfect righteousness known to man and above and the only place I would want all of us to dwell after this existence has taken its course. That is when we really will be dwelling in divine and heavenly style. Amen
"new heavens":
What I humbly began to ponder was Genesis, and the Fall Stories. First, the fall of the angels. The beginning of sin, the chasm of heaven and hell. The choice that 1/3 of the angels made to follow Lucifer. The only reason there will be new heavens is by the blood of the lamb. Each drop, wiping clean everything heaven, hell and the chasm.
Just like Peter said, "and the heavens will pass away with a mighty roar." I like to think its the roar of the lamb coming in full glory, to bring us ALL home. Where is home? Eternal life. This is how Jesus cleans up all of divinity and heavens before we go home.
"a new earth"
In the fall story of Adam and Eve, the start of original sin, its consequences and reprocutions of it, for all humanity. This is a fall that keeps falling. A fall we are all still and will be part of to this very day, why? Because we are human and have free will. The choice and choices we make in our lives, past present and future keeps us wretchedly sinful.
The only reason there will be "a new earth" is by the Body and Blood of the Lamb made flesh, who is OUR CHRIST JESUS. It makes me very humbled and grateful that God came down in the flesh to save us from sin, from its consequences and reprocutions, basically from this human life and death to give us eternal life with no death.
Jesus not only saved us by dying on that tree, and by rising from the dead. He conquered death by dying and desending into hell, so we would not have to. Through his desecnt, I feel is where Jesus Christ cleaned up the consequences and reprocutions and deeds of all evil, and loved it for the good of all. All this love was and is needed for us humans to make it through the gates, TOGETHER AND UNIFIED UNDER THE ONE.
"and the earth and everything done on it will be found out"
This reminded me of the tower of babel. All of this babel we do, we say, we live, we mingle with in our lifetimes. The sin we live within ourselves. Then, we(humanity)have to live together on this planet. Then, we as a family of God, perserve and reform our cultures, our societies, our families, so again, we stayed unified under the one risen Christ Jesus, FOR ALL OF TIME. TO ANY END OF ANY EARTH AND BEYOND. All thanks and praise and thanksgiving to the Father Almighty, to the Son, and to the Holy Spirit.
"where righteousness dwells"
This is why need Jesus soo much, He is the ONLY perfect righteousness known to man and above and the only place I would want all of us to dwell after this existence has taken its course. That is when we really will be dwelling in divine and heavenly style. Amen
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