One wonders, after hearing these passages from scripture today, if some amount of suffering of some type necessarily accompanies sharing the Gospel.
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Move the faith along!
We, in a manner of speaking, are right there with Paul and Jesus, preaching and teaching the Good News, too!
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Weary, weak, and tired — God is our strength
If we just have hope in the Lord — yes, hope.
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Do we, like Mary’s ‘fiat!’, say yes to God’s grace and blessings?
For after all, Paul tells us quite clearly that we, too, have been filled with every spiritual blessing in the heavens.
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Spiritual works are about spiritual benefits — now showing off
Surely, St. Paul would say that one does good because they truly have received grace and that grace has been effective within them.
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We see and hear the Promise in Christ
The same promise that finally that long-cascading procession of Old Testament names could finally discover: the Son of the Most High God indeed was fulfilling it all.
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Like Stephen, we will find ourselves enduring the eternal love of God in Christ
But like Stephen, be prepared to be filled with the Holy Spirit of God. Be prepared to see what so many could not and would not see. Be prepared to share in enormous trust that even in the face of death will not diminish. Be prepared to speak wisdom in the face of danger and impending death. And be prepared, in the trust and deepest sense of all, to be saved!
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The feet, indeed!
How important the mouth is for preaching, the ears for hearing, the heart and mind for believing and cherishing the word — and that process gets repeated and repeated and repeated from one person to the next.
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I’m your servant, Lord. Use me, use me, use me!
The only thing I can say — and I say it with as much gumption as I can muster: If we are going to believe these mystical and wondrous thing said of Mary, then we must believe also the mystical and wondrous things said to the Ephesians and equally to us.
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The cross is the centerpiece of the Paschal Mystery
There is physical and emotional suffering, failure, the dashing of our hopes and dreams, betrayal and rejection, misunderstanding, and loss of esteem. And, in the end, death itself. Are these the crosses we all must bear?
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