FRIDAY, October 15 (Teresa of Avila)

Luke 9:28-36. A cloud came and overshadowed them; and they were terrified as they entered the cloud.

An English writer tells how a wise priest who was a friend of his did an inestimable service for him and his wife many years ago when they were married. This priest could not attend the wedding, so he sent a note of felicitation. In it he didn’t say the usual things in the usual way; he simply quoted this verse from the Gospel of Luke: “they were terrified as they entered the cloud.” Perplexed, the young couple looked it up and found the Transfiguration story. They noted that the three disciples trembled as they entered the cloud of the unknown. Yet they cared to enter it, for Jesus their friend and guide was with them.

Surely it is a golden text for any Christian entering the cloud of marriage or any other venture into the future. How can we know what awaits us in that thick cloud? Of course we cannot. But even though we tremble, we can dare to face the future, and to walk into it, if we know that Christ is with us. Whatever awaits us, God will see us safely through. (1957)

Keep thou my feet; I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough for me. —John Henry Newman

PRAY for the Diocese of Ikwuano (Province of Niger Delta, Nigeria)

Ps 16, 17 * 22; Ecclesiasticus 1:1-10, 18-27; Acts 28:1-16

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This Cloud and Others

Oct 15, 2010 at 8:04 am

Written by Stephen,

A Monks sermon revealed to me the prefiguring stories of Jesus baptism and the Transfiguration to his death on the Cross and his resurrection. These events are connected and integral to the journey and life I receive from God. Jesus didn't have to be baptized, go up to the mountain or die on the cross. He chose.

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Oct 15, 2010 at 10:15 am

Written by irma,

He chose to do that which he was called. He was scared sometime and eqivocated sometime but, yet, he chose to do as God had called him to do. And what amazes and sobers me is that he did it in his sane moments: not on a whim of defeat "oh, what the heck...", not comforted by the thought of martydom "they'll understand when I'm gone",not drunk "wh@^ t*& hick up!". Jesus walked forward with eyes wide open through the scary unknown because he knew God was with him. I am no Jesus, and the thought of nails through the palms of my hands/wrists or today's equivalent gives me a heart attack but I move forward in faith that God is with me into the unknown of each day. My prayers always include "Lord, give me strength..." and "guide my feet...that I may do your will in this world".

Baptism

Oct 15, 2010 at 10:51 am

Written by Frederick Wright,

I wonder sometimes if Jesus knew his cross before or after The Baptism, this baptism into the heart of Jesus and our community is misunderstood I believe by many. God humbling himself in self-denial for his people of the commune did Jesus know his cross before The Baptism or did it become clear once he reconized his roll as the Savior and Teacher of Charity in God's Love? The Baptism into everlasting life and was this cross His Symbol of Loving faith in an world in need of God's Lovingly
Charity for if the son of God, a human, died for the truth, than we too can hopfully carry this cross of faith, love and action, with God's Help and Jesus' directions to always have the comfortor of truth, to light the way.

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Oct 15, 2010 at 5:11 pm

Written by Tom Pritchard,

That which doesn't kill us makes us stronger. I remember an editorial from an old issue of Autoweek from a writer in Alaska about the then latest deaths on Denali. The usual hue and cry arose in short order about the need to protect us from ourselves. The author su*gested that if we, as a species, hadn't been daring and willing to, as we now say, push the envelope, we'd still be sitting around fires in animal skins.

They say a person has to know their limits and I su*gest that if we don't test and push our limits, we'll never extend our capacities to overcome and achieve.

The concept of "contributory negligence" is a legal concept that doesn't seem to get as much play as it used to. So many, at least in our version of a society, feel that they can play the "victim" card in avoiding or failing to take responsibility for their actions. What many people fail to realize is that there are consequences for ignorance, stupidity, and negligence. Sort of like feeling sorry for life long smokers who succumb to lung cancer and alcoholics who ruin their livers, and those of us who clog our arteries with the foods we gorge ourselves on.

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