Matthew under the arm 60
[I'll sneek a quick one in before I have to take a dip out of the pilgrimage until 28th June...]
There was an inn yesterday that seemed to be so isolated. It was in the middle of a valley with no houses around - plenty of sheep - and only Columba and me! However, inside the inn, the lady pulled us, from the barrell, a long drink. We sat outside and looked across to the mountain range that we would soon have to climb. The lady appeared and asked if one of us was Columba. She handed him a huge packet tied with string - letters galore. All were marked important. If it was me I would have moaned and groaned at the correspondence I would have to deal with. Not Columba...he walked back inside the inn and simply said to the lady: 'Send them on to my address when you can.' 'But aren't there important letters in the packet?' 'Maybe', replied Columba. 'The Son of Man is here on the Pilgrimage with me and he has my first priority,' he added cryptically. 'Who's he?' enquired the lady. Columba laughed and pointed at me!
Matthew 13:36-44….
The explanation of the parable of the field is rather like someone explaining a joke. The tension is lost. The parable is all in the telling, the company, the context etc... There maybe have been a desire to convey to the readers of the Gospel important material for teaching purposes. It’s also important to remember that the Gospel was written among early Christians who had experienced the mystery of Jesus’ Resurrection. Everything in the Gospel has to be read through that perspective. The Son of Man, a figure spoken of in the Hebrew Scriptures, develops into the presence of the Risen Christ in the tiniest aspects of creativity that brings them into the fulfilment of God.
I would know the mystery of Thy revealing Wisdom within me
By entering into the depths of meditation where Christ is, there is the ‘field’ in which Christ works in the tiniest detail of your life. Nothing will remain unexposed by his loving presence. The soul becomes more and more transparent. The ‘angels’ are the messengers and the messages of your life that if you are aware of them, your spiritual life becomes the adventure of being more and more purified in this life and in the mystery [or mysteries] of life you still have to come. The sentence if used slowly enables this process to be stimulated in the depth of you.
+Martin
Argyll and The Isles
[Don't leave the pilgrimage. I'll catch up with you]
There was an inn yesterday that seemed to be so isolated. It was in the middle of a valley with no houses around - plenty of sheep - and only Columba and me! However, inside the inn, the lady pulled us, from the barrell, a long drink. We sat outside and looked across to the mountain range that we would soon have to climb. The lady appeared and asked if one of us was Columba. She handed him a huge packet tied with string - letters galore. All were marked important. If it was me I would have moaned and groaned at the correspondence I would have to deal with. Not Columba...he walked back inside the inn and simply said to the lady: 'Send them on to my address when you can.' 'But aren't there important letters in the packet?' 'Maybe', replied Columba. 'The Son of Man is here on the Pilgrimage with me and he has my first priority,' he added cryptically. 'Who's he?' enquired the lady. Columba laughed and pointed at me!
Matthew 13:36-44….
The explanation of the parable of the field is rather like someone explaining a joke. The tension is lost. The parable is all in the telling, the company, the context etc... There maybe have been a desire to convey to the readers of the Gospel important material for teaching purposes. It’s also important to remember that the Gospel was written among early Christians who had experienced the mystery of Jesus’ Resurrection. Everything in the Gospel has to be read through that perspective. The Son of Man, a figure spoken of in the Hebrew Scriptures, develops into the presence of the Risen Christ in the tiniest aspects of creativity that brings them into the fulfilment of God.
I would know the mystery of Thy revealing Wisdom within me
By entering into the depths of meditation where Christ is, there is the ‘field’ in which Christ works in the tiniest detail of your life. Nothing will remain unexposed by his loving presence. The soul becomes more and more transparent. The ‘angels’ are the messengers and the messages of your life that if you are aware of them, your spiritual life becomes the adventure of being more and more purified in this life and in the mystery [or mysteries] of life you still have to come. The sentence if used slowly enables this process to be stimulated in the depth of you.
+Martin
Argyll and The Isles
[Don't leave the pilgrimage. I'll catch up with you]
Labels: The Son of Man
posted by Martin at 2:50 pm
2 Comments:
Strange pilgramage.
sounds like it's all about drink and wanting other people's sandles!
Only joking.
Just like real life in fact.....
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