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Stars and Saints

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Fra Angelico, The Forerunners of Christ with Saints and Martyrs

By Gloria M. Chang

From eternity the Lord God designed humanity and the cosmos in his image, envisioning the constellation of saints bursting with Christic Light in the heavens. Formed from the dust of the earth, Adam evolves through the eons to completion in Jesus Christ, his descendant and Lord—the Potter’s masterpiece (Isaiah 64:8). 

Kindling the treasure of Christ’s flame in “jars of clay,” we grow day by day into the image of the Blessed Trinity as one Mystical Body (1 Corinthians 15:41). The dazzling kaleidoscope of saints, reflecting the unity and diversity of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit radiates the infinite rays of divinity. Each saint refined in God’s furnace of Love emerges as an original from the hands of the Divine Artist, for “star differs from star in glory” (1 Corinthians 15:41).

Form me with your hands, Lord, day by day.
You are the Potter; I am the clay.
From soil you shaped sparkling saints like stars, 
Blazing your glory from earthen jars.

Just as we have borne the image of the man of dust, we shall also bear the image of the man of heaven.

1 Corinthians 15:49


This content by Gloria M. Chang was originally published online at Shalom Snail: Journey to Wholeness. 

Divinity is Infinity!

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God’s Beloved Sheep

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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter

John 10:22-30

Jesus assures us in today’s Gospel reading that no one can take his sheep out of his hand. He knows each of his sheep by name and their unique identities. 

“My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can take them out of the Father’s hand.”

John 10:29

A cloud of mystery surrounds Jesus’ references to the Father throughout the Gospels, but his unmistakable desire is to lead us back to him, the font of Love, who is a person. 

“The Father and I are one.” Love is one and interpersonal, a communion of divine persons and the final destination of human persons. As the Son receives his unique identity from the Father, so does each of us, the Father’s adopted children.

Know that the LORD is God.
He made us, and we are his.
We are his people, and the sheep of his pasture. Psalm 100:3

-GMC

The Most Common Occurrence

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by Howard Hain

 

Christ lives in the Eucharistic Prayer.

He listens carefully.

The Father listens too.

We listen with Them.

The Holy Spirit speaks.

He speaks a great silence.

He listens to the listeners.

We collectively hear.

God.

Three Persons.

His Entire People.

All Creation.

The Sound of One Breathing.

The Sound of Life.

Communion.

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Amen.

 

(Jan/4/18)