Ask, Seek, Knock

Icon of Pentecost

First Week of Lent, Thursday

โ€œAsk and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you. For everyone who asks, receives; and the one who seeks, finds; and to the one who knocks, the door will be opened.

Read the rest

Two Angels and a Sword

Tuesday within the Octave of Easter

John 20:11-18 

โ€œWoman, why are you weeping?โ€

Two angels and the Lord Jesus Christ asked the same question in a garden. The scene recalls the first garden at the moment of exile: two angels, a fiery revolving sword guarding the way to the tree of life, and a weeping Eve (Genesis 3:24).… Read the rest

A Summary of Pentecost

Acts 2:1-11; 1 Corinthians 12:3b-7, 12-13; John 20:19-23

When the Holy Spirit descends,
Fearful fishermen
Become fearless preachers.
Tongues of fire
Replace the babble of Babel,
Uniting in Christ
What Adam fragmentized.

No one can say, โ€œJesus is Lord,โ€
Except by the Spirit,
And it is the Spirit who cries out,
โ€œAbba, Father!โ€… Read the rest