Yesterday I asked what it meant for my blog to have a routine in my journal, because the Saint of the day, St. Pius encouraged reading of the Script as a routine.


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It is hard coming into the routine of Livejournaling again. My husband promised me some sayings of Desert Fathers to journal about. He is reading these for sometime now, finding them really profound and funny as well, but he was called away too a funeral, so here I am now, thrown back on my resources.

In utter despair I picked up “365 Saints”, ( Read more... )

               
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The story about the blind man that I read yesterday (John 9:1-18) continues.

The passage of today (John 9:18-41) revolves about a wordplay on being blind and seeing. Jesus says: “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

The Pharisees call the blind man (who is now healed) ( Read more... )

                   
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Five classes, one in Amsterdam (which is a daytrip) and three of them in a row in the evenings. I am tired now, I must rest and be brief now. I have read John 6:52-59.

The discussion between Jesus and the crowd is still going on about the same theme, that of the living bread (it is going on at least three entries in this blog now).

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The schedule of readings I use proposes Mark for the Sundays of Lent. I like John more and more, his poetic, enigmatic sentences and his mystical images, thus it cost me to change Gospels today, but the passage I’ve read today is beautifully written (Mark 8:11-21). See here:

“Is your heart still hardened? Having eyes, don’t you see? Having ears, ( Read more... )

In the passage I have read today (John 8:46-59) the dispute between Jesus and the people who challenge him is still going on. The challengers accuse Jesus of having a demon. They do this because Jesus tells them that if a person keeps the word of Jesus (or God), he will never see death. This is sounding really odd to his challengers, because   ( Read more... )

Each day in Lent I read a passage from the Bible. Tonight I have read John 7:1-13. In this story Jesus goes in secret to the Feast of Boots, Sukkot. During the feast many people in town were making their mind up about him. There was much discussion if he was a good man or not; a Five of Wands situation, but probably more grim as that.

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The text that I have read today is John 3:16-21. In it Jesus says that “light” has come into the world, but that people loved the darkness more than the light because their works were evil. What Jesus longs for is that people “do truth.” This is done by doing what is right, by greeting your neighbour and by being grateful for the life that is given ( Read more... )