Again the high priest asked him, “Are you the Messiah, the Son of the Blessed One?” Jesus said, “I am; and ’you will see the Son of Man seated at the right hand of the Power’, and ‘coming with the clouds of heaven.’” Then the high priest tore his clothes and said,...
Every Riven Thing – A Poem for Friday
posted by DJL
Given this Sunday’s Gospel reading from John 2, where Jesus makes manifest that God will no longer be contained in the Temple but is now, in Jesus, on the loose, I thought Christian Wiman’s poem Every Riven Thing was appropriate. But this isn’t simply a tribute to the God present in nature; it is testimony to the God who appears in brokeness. As Wiman says in an interview with Radio Open Source: Riven means broken, it means shattered or wounded or unhealed, and I think that notion is very important to me and my notion of God and of religion: that we are broken creatures, very broken creatures. And I don’t think of God as...
12. Mark 14:27-31
posted by DJL
And Jesus said to them, “You will all become deserters; for it is written, ‘I will strike the shepherd, and the sheep will be scattered.’ But after I am raised up, I will go before you to Galilee.” Peter said to him, “Even though all become deserters, I will not.” Jesus said to...