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| Random thoughts from prayer or Bible reading | |
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| Topic Started: Tuesday, 19. May 2009, 22:21 (139 Views) | |
| Rose of York | Tuesday, 19. May 2009, 22:21 Post #1 |
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Praying the rosary, or musing on a Bible passage can lead to random thoughts. Would anyone like to share them? |
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| Rose of York | Tuesday, 19. May 2009, 22:26 Post #2 |
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Saying the third Joyful Mystery, outdoors, I glanced up a hill. There were ewes, rams and new born lambs. The shepherds in Bethlehem were up in the the hills. I thought "If the Son of God had been born two thousand years later, he could easily have been born in one of the smaller cottages below that hill, or on a housing estate. If he was born to Mrs George, wife of our local carpenter George, and when he was only twelve he knew more about ripture than our priest or the local minister and vicars, we would have think him peculiar. If, when he grew up he were to claim to be One with God, then promised to send us "the Spirit", how would we locals react? To put it bluntly would we say "he's nuts". Is it any wonder Jesus was rejected by his own people? |
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| Mairtin | Tuesday, 19. May 2009, 22:39 Post #3 |
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Not so much a random thought, just something I heard once that occurs to me quite often when I pray certain prayers. It came from the priest who took a session on "How Jesus Prayed" during a course that I took part in. He explained that Jesus as a child would have learnt the traditional Jewish prayers, particularly the psalms, at His mother's knee just as we learnt the Our Father, Hail Mary, etc. from our mothers. Now when I pray the traditional prayers that I learnt as a child, I often think of Jesus as a child learning their Jewish equivalents. Also, when I read or hear the psalms, it sometimes strikes me that these are the exact same prayers that Jesus would have used for His own private prayers. |
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| pete | Tuesday, 19. May 2009, 23:29 Post #4 |
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When we say the Glorious Mysteries of the rosary, I like to concentrate on the 4th Mystery the Assumption of Our Lady into Heaven. I can imagine Our Lady in a tomb being awakened by her Son in all His Glory, holding her tightly in his arms and telling her how much he loved her and how He had missed her. I try to visualise His excitement when telling his beloved mother what’s awaiting her arrival in Heaven. I’m convinced that the initial time they spent alone together in the tomb would have been so emotional for both of them; A Glorious Mystery with a Glorious ending. |
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| Deleted User | Tuesday, 19. May 2009, 23:37 Post #5 |
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That's quite an awesome thought, Mairtin. I'll remember that in future. KatyA |
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| JRJ | Wednesday, 20. May 2009, 04:12 Post #6 |
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This is not my thought, but one from Msgr. Philip J. Reilly of Brooklyn, NY. He was praying the Rosary at Ground Zero in New York at midnight the night following the 9/11/2001 attacks in the US. At the time of the attacks, the Msgr. was praying in front of an abortuary. He noted that the whole city came to a complete halt when the first tower and then the second collapsed, except for one activity: the abortions continued. The mothers continued to arrive and the abortionist continued taking more lives. So here he was, midnight, at another ghastly place of death, praying the Rosary. He was thinking of the workers on the very floors where the planes struck the World Trade Center. He thought of them having coffee, checking email, saying, "Good Morning." Feeling safe, secure and normal. Until this very foreign force destroyed the building they relied on every day, taking their lives in the process. One moment they are chatting with a coworker and the next they are attacked, pinned helpless in a building many, many stories above the street. And then he thought of the infants in the wombs of the mothers who had procured abortions that morning. Those infants felt the same - safe, secure, normal. Until a very foreign force entered their mother's wombs and attacked them, and they, too were pinned helpless inside the womb, with nowhere to run. |
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| Mrs.Pogle | Wednesday, 20. May 2009, 16:51 Post #7 |
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That is a very moving analogy, Jennifer... I recently had a random reminder from Scripture! I have been struggling with many aspects of my home life recently, and beginning to resent certain things about it (busyness, lack of personal space, demands of others etc.) until I read Psalm 15(16) and these verses struck me somewhere very deep, v.5-6: "The Lord is the portion of my inheritance and of my cup: it is thou that wilt restore my inheritance to me. The lines are fallen unto me in goodly places: for my inheritance is goodly to me. " They reminded me that God has chosen my position and purpose in life, and even when I kick against it, if I look more closely in gratitude, I can indeed say that my lines have fallen in goodly places. The use of the word "cup" reminds me of Jesus' words in the Garden. The cup is the will of God, and I can ask for God to take it away, or I can accept His will and try to live creatively in it. When I do the second, then I am at peace... Edited by Mrs.Pogle, Wednesday, 20. May 2009, 19:42.
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| Ned | Wednesday, 20. May 2009, 17:22 Post #8 |
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Recently I've been reflecting on St Paul's teaching that God always does everything at the right time. It's so obviously true when you think about it. It puts in a whole new light our apparent misfortunes. |
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| Joe Valente | Wednesday, 20. May 2009, 19:11 Post #9 |
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Ned, Normally I would agree with your interpretation, but maybe it is the mood I am in following the Child Abuse report (see other thread) but I wonder.................................. would that interpretation help the victims, will it help those of us, unconnected to the events, who are feeling hurt and shame. Sorry, Ned, I think it is my hurt and disgust bubbling up. No offence to you intended. |
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| Ned | Friday, 22. May 2009, 16:05 Post #10 |
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Quite so, Joe. I've been listening to RTE, and I'm knocked flying myself. At least these exposures have occurred when two godly men, Pope Benedict and Archbishop Martin, are about. |
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