“The Vulnerable Jesus”
Sketch: Ronald Raab, CSC
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Tuesday of Holy Week: Fragments from The Word
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Monday of Holy Week 2015: Fragments from the Word
“The Vulnerable Jesus”
Sketch: Ronald Raab, CSC
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Palm Sunday of the Lord’s Passion 2015: Fragments from the Word
“The Vulnerable Jesus”
Sketch: Ronald Raab, CSC
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On The Margins – Mark 11:1-10
Listen to “On the Margins”. This broadcast comes from KBVM 88.3, Catholic Broadcasting Northwest. Today, we begin Holy Week. We enter into the celebrations of the foundation of our faith, Christ’s passion, death and resurrection. Enter this week with your full heart. Jesus will heal and love you, give you new life. Palm Sunday, March 29, 2015.
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Stream live On The Margins on KBVM 88.3FM on Saturdays at 8am and Sundays at 8am.
Lent 2015: “In my distress”
“In my distress”
Painting: Ronald Raab, CSC (2014)
Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent:
“In my distress I called upon the Lord and cried out to my God; From his temple he heard my voice, and my cry to him reached his ears.” Psalm 18
Lent 2015: Love and Belonging with Jean Vanier at L’Arche
This video is about forty-five minutes long. It explores the beginning of L’Arche in 1962. I mentioned a couple of weeks ago the Jean Vanier is receiveing the Templeton Prize. Here, the video explores the beauty, the ministry of L’Arche and the building of community from love, vulnerability and respect for all people.
“People don’t get lost if there are enough people to hold their hands.” Vanier
Lent 2015: “Jesus Remember Me”
Jesus, remember me.
Do not forget the lonely gentleman boarding the bus today.
Remember Priscilla who cannot forgive her past.
Please remember to forgive those who live in bitterness because life is hard.
Remember your mercy when Joe shoots drugs to numb the pain.
Do not forget the children who cry in the nighttime.
Bring to your heart those beaten down by abuse.
Embrace the lonely people standing in line waiting for food.
Comfort people in loveless marriages.
Help us remember to love.
Help us remember to forgive.
Jesus, remember us who ache for a new life.
Remember to help the veteran to forget his last tour of duty.
Do not forget the grandfather who can no longer remember his own name.
Do not forget the man down the street who lost his job at the gas station.
Keep in mind the old widow in the corner cafe with the red scarf on her head.
Walk down memory lane with the man who buried his partner.
Jesus, we are your people of memory.
But sometimes we forget to let you into our lives.
We will not forget you as you always remember us on this side of the grave.
Amen
Lent 2015: Third Scrutiny Litany from March 22
Scrutiny at Sacred Heart Church: March 22, 2015
The Third Scrutiny: (Cycle B) The Fifth Sunday of Lent, March 22, 2014
Response: Christ in me, arise
From the hardness of anger and rage…
From the hardness of resentment and lack of hope…
From the hardness of devaluing all life and our potential…
From the hardness of cheating and lying…
From the hardness of not believing God will love us and change us…
From the hardness of our negative behaviors…
From the hardness of ignoring people surviving urban poverty…
From the hardness of judging people living outside…
From the hardness of labels and judgments on people…
From the hardness of a fearful heart and ill-will toward family…
From the hardness of jealousy and jumping to false conclusions…
From the hardness of envy and a lack of gratitude…
From the hardness of corruption among leaders and governments…
From the hardness of hostility among nations…
From the hardness of indifference to the suffering of others…
From the hardness of hatred of our neighbors…
From the hardness of violence and war…
From the hardness of busyness and lack of attention…
From the hardness of lack of concern for the elderly and the ill…
From the hardness of our inability to care for people with disabilities…
And from all evil…
And from all evil…
And from all evil…
Lent 2015: Memory Loss and Alzheimer’s.
“I don’t remember”
Sketch: Ronald Raab, CSC
Even though I walk in the dark valley, I fear no evil; for you are at my side. (Psalm 23)
We all hold a story of faith and love within our hearts. Faith is about remembering our story of salvation. Our common prayer in the Mass is a memorial of what God has done among God’s people. When our memories fade, we beginning losing our identity. We lose the words to tell others who we are in the world. We lose our link to our past. We lose the love that binds us to family and friends, We lose the God who has brought us this far. Memory is sacred.
Memory loss is one of the most devastating diseases that we encounter for our loved ones or for our own lives. Learn more about how we are called to walk with loved ones whom do not remember us, to care for those whom may not remember our names, to walk with people whom may not understand where God may be leading.
Click here for an episode of On Being with Krista Tippett. (Really good)
The Fifth Sunday of Lent 2015: “The Jesus Prayer”
“The Jesus Prayer”
Painting: Ronald Raab, CSC
In our prayer, we seek the face of Jesus. In our weakness, we depend on his mercy. In our searching, we ache to be found in his love for us. In the tragedies of our lives, we long to die to our selves and rise to new love in Christ. Our prayer is meant to pattern our lives in the dying and rising of Christ Jesus. This is the message of today’s gospel (John 12:20-33), that unless a grain of wheat falls to the earth and dies it remains just a grain of wheat. Our prayer must find its home in the pattern of Jesus, the cross our only hope.
I want to draw your attention on this Fifth Sunday of Lent to “The Jesus Prayer”. Here is one version of the Jesus Prayer that I learned many years ago.
“Jesus, Son of the Living God, have mercy on me a sinner.”
This ancient prayer is meant to be prayed from our lips. When it is prayed over many years, our hearts and souls begin to pattern life in this message. Our souls take over the prayer and we begin to live the message even without our awareness. Our lips are called to pray this prayer during the Lenten season. I invite you to learn more about this prayer from the early Church.
The painting today is reminiscent of a mosaic from the early Church. I painted this piece on Friday. Seek the face of Jesus always. Please learn more about the simplicity of “The Jesus Prayer.”
Click here to learn more about the Jesus Prayer.
Click here to learn more about the Catholic tradition of the Jesus Prayer.
Broken But Not Divided 