On this 33rd Sunday of Ordinary Time, the Gospel from Mark's Gospel is about the tribulations and judgment that will be coming in the end times. We are nearing the end of our Church's liturgical year. I preached about the darkness that we encounter in different shapes and forms on our journey of faith. I included the following quotes in my homily:
Thomas Merton - Catholic spiritual author and Trappist monk (1915 -1968)
“True love and prayer are really learned in the hour when prayer becomes impossible and your heart turns to stone.”
Sue Monk Kidd - American novelist (1948 - present)
“Too many of us panic in the dark. We don’t understand that it’s a holy dark and that the idea is to surrender to it and journey through to real light."
Caryll Houselander - Catholic British laywoman - mystic, spiritual writer, artist, poet, and counselor (1901 - 1954)
God will enter into your night,
as the ray of the sun enters into the dark, hard earth,
driving right down to the roots of the trees,
and there, unseen, unknown, unfelt in the darkness,
filling the tree with life,
a sap of fire will suddenly break out,
high above the darkness,
into living leaf and flame.
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