17 Jan 2008
The crowded desert
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For 17 January 2008, St. Anthony of the desert, based on Mark 1:40-45
A leper came to Jesus begging him, and kneeling he said to him, “If you choose, you can make me clean.†Moved with pity, Jesus stretched out his hand and touched him, and said to him, “I do choose. Be made clean!†Immediately the leprosy left him, and he was made clean. After sternly warning him he sent him away at once, saying to him, “See that you say nothing to anyone; but go, show yourself to the priest, and offer for your cleansing what Moses commanded, as a testimony to them.†But he went out and began to proclaim it freely, and to spread the word, so that Jesus could no longer go into a town openly, but stayed out in the country; and people came to him from every quarter.
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
20 January 2008 @ 10:16 pm
I loved this!!!!
Thanks! 🙂
Rebecca
03 February 2008 @ 10:32 pm
DESERT PRAYER
can you pray in the desert…
thirst a torment … heat a
sweat…beading and rolling…
kneel…where…rocks & thorns
…oh…how God hears the prayer
of the desert man…you can
pray in the desert…clouds
form…dropping their cool
shade…down the canyon they
thicken…and bridge the mesas
…with hues of violet and
purple…and drop the rains
of grace…thanks…amen…
tomorrow…wildflowers will
grow where you knelt today …