Wednesday of the First Week of Lent
Luke's narrative is
picking up tension as the journey to Jerusalem continues. I get
uncomfortable when Jesus is tense.
I like reading this
Lucan passage beginning with verse 27.
As Jesus was saying these things, a woman
shouted from the crowd "Blessed is the womb that carried you and the
breasts that fed you."
He corrects her.
Autograph seekers come to mind. The text points to the role of the prophet,
which is always to speak another's truth. Hear the word of God (not me but the one in whose name I come) and keep it.
The people of Nineveh
listened to God and Jonah was his prophet. Jesus is running out of time.
He needs God's word to settle into the deepest parts of his hearer's
hearts. Their hope and understanding will need to last three days.
Don't make me into a cult personality
That will last maybe an hour
It’s bigger and broader and deeper
than
what you think you see
I am a sacrament of the face...the heart of
God
Let that soak into the all of you
Then three days won't be too much
You will have enough to perceive
the Easter Mystery
the Easter Mystery
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