There is a fascinating article in the New York Times this morning called "Moral Relativity Is a Hot Topic? True. Absolutely."

One of the more intriguing lines:

He wants to proclaim pomo's innocence of any charges against it, because, he says, its arguments don't really affect behavior. Postmodernism, he writes in Harper's, "is a series of arguments, not a way of life or a recipe for action." Yet Mr. Fish treats truth not as an objectively verifiable ahistorical object but as something that is wrestled over in the midst of daily life. Convictions, he argues, are supported by invoking received authorities, sacred texts, exemplary achievements and generally accepted benchmarks." Mr. Fish has even compared the establishment of scientific truth to a game of baseball; it is judged according to the rules of the game.


I like it better when truth isn't so much a idea but a person and the discussion has more to do with fidelitas than veritas. Jesus said "I AM the truth."

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 10:15 AM link

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Ladder to Heaven

St. Gaspar is often heard to say that the “cross is our ladder to heaven.” I was looking for something else the other day and I came across this phrase eight or nine times, and I only searched through a third of his letters.

Gaspar knew this intimately. He is well known for his incarnating today’s Gospel: “You will be dragged before governors and kings for my sake, to bear witness before them and the pagans. But when they hand you over, do not worry about how to speak or what to say; what you are to say will be given to you when the time comes; because it is not you who will be speaking; the spirit of your Father will be speaking in you.” (see Matt 10:16-23)

Fr. Amilcare Rey, C.PP.S. describes it this way

On June 12, 1810 a note from the French police arrived at the del Bufalo home. Canon Don Gaspar was ordered to present himself on the following day at the Palazzo Borromeo, near St. Ignatius, at the headquarters of the French Prefecture, in order to take the oath of fidelity to the Emperor before the officials who were his representatives. On the following morning, accompanied by his father, Gaspar made his way to the designated place. As soon as he arrived, the young priest was admitted into the presence of the official, Olivetti. On seeing the young man, the official invited him to take the oath prescribed by Napoleon. "NON POSSO, NON DEBBO, NON VOGLIO!" (I cannot, I must not, I will not!) cried Gaspar. Some time before Pius VII had used the same words to General Rodet when the latter demanded something unjust of him. The official was taken off his feet at this strength. Recovering from his surprise he tried again, "but in vain. Gaspar said he was ready for prison, for torments, for death, rather than oath-taking." Turning to his father, Olivetti said to him, "You urge him to take the oath." It was Antonio's turn. "Citizen" - here he raised his right hand to his breast "shoot me first, and then my son, but don't tell me to do a thing like that."


We do not believe in a God of magic who makes life easy for us, or takes away our difficulties, or prevents human tragedy or injustice. Jesus has walked this way before us, and indeed, he accompanies on our present path. We are called to share his life and to follow in his way, not to be afraid of opposition, but confident that we will be given the ability to witness the Lord’s presence even now.

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 11:00 AM link

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Freedom in the Blood of Christ

The Gospel today says that “you will be hated by all on my account.” From a Gasparian perspective we are not afraid of opposition but confront it with the same courage and calmness as did St. Gaspar.

I remember a few years ago, the last time that July 4th landed on a Sunday. The City of Alameda CA held its Fourth of July Parade on Sunday morning during the time we had two Sunday Masses. I felt many parishioners should have a right to participate in the parade and scheduling it on Sunday morning prevented that. Also the route of the Parade went down Webster Street, just one block from the church, and cut of the access to the church from the rest of the City. This I believed infringed on people right to Sunday worship without due interference from the City. I believed the Catholic Mayor of the city would understand that perspective. Wrong! I called everyone in the City administration who could provide assistance. As a last resort I called the ACLU in San Francisco. Nope. Religious Freedom is not a Civil Liberty. Mainly from my experience, a report sent to me today rings true.

Those two Sunday masses were held. The music of the church on a warm summer morning with the doors and windows open mingled with the sounds of distant marching bands. The Saturday evening Mass was more crowded that usual because people knew they could not come to Mass on July 4th.

We celebrate our freedoms every July as we should. Yet July is also the month of the Precious Blood and in this spirituality we celebrate a freedom in the Blood of Christ that far surpasses anything our country can offer.

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 10:56 AM link

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Blog?

Blogging is a new form of communication for me. I am not even sure I knew what it was a few weeks ago. But it seems a novel way of sharing ideas and engaging in conversations. It has, for me, the potential of being one more of those thousand tongues St. Gaspar asked for in sharing the mysteries of the Most Precious Blood

For those of you in the Precious Blood Family who have never visited a Blog before, the term is shorthand for "Web Log."

The Economist in their July 6th edition reports that Blogging, the publication of running commentary on personal online weblogs, has in the past couple of years exploded from a cultish techie activity into a cottage industry churning out increasingly compelling content. In 1998, there were about 30,000 weblogs; today, there are some 500,000, according to Cameron Marlow, who runs blogdex, which tracks them.

Peggy Noonan in the Wall Street Journal listed Blogging as one of the things that was "right" with America. Blogging. The 24-7 opinion sites that offer free speech at its straightest, truest, wildest, most uncensored, most thoughtful, most strange. Thousands of independent information entrepreneurs are informing, arguing, adding information.

This Blog was born July 7, 2002 and with very little advertising it has more that 50 people a day visit this site. What will happen when I publish the address in other newsletters?

I named this Blog after "The Gasparian." That journal was started shortly after Father Joseph Marling was elected Provincial. The first issue was dated October 20, 1938. It was published by the staff of The Messenger Press, working together with the Provincial Secretary. It continued to be published until the 1970, but gradually it became more scarce, since each of the three provinces had their own Newsletters. The last issue was dated July, 1981 and was called Vol. 41, No. 1.

Any member of the Precious Blood Family, Priest, Brother, Adorer, Companion, who wishes to post something here, simply send it to me by email.

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 11:42 PM link

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Raised anybody
from the dead?

Today’s gospel (Matt 10:7-15) bids us “Go and proclaim this message: the kingdom of heaven is near. Heal the sick, bring the dead back to life, cleanse the lepers and drive out demons.”

Does it sometimes seem the Lord is asking the impossible? This isn’t about resuscitating a corpse. This is about bringing life wherever you go. St. Gaspar saved a village from destruction. Through his efforts Sonnino could move again toward peace and hope. Sonnino was dead. Gaspar raised it to life.

When I work a Retrouvaille weekend the couples are pretty sad looking on the Friday night. By Sunday we see a softening in them as they begin to relax, share on a feeling level, and some even begin to hold hands again. Have we raised the dead? It is not a quick fix, or magic, but it is bringing life.

Today’s Gospel also demonstrates a significant connection between Faith and Hospitality.

So the challenge of the Gospel today is: Have you raised anybody from the dead today?

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 11:26 AM link

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Breaking Down Walls

A friend alerted me to something reported in an article in the National Review today. Apparently, also reported in the New York Times on July 2nd, Aisam ul-Haq, a Pakistani, and Amir Hadad, an Israeli, were doubles partners at Wimbledon. The Times reports, ” they played together, then sat together, Pakistani and Israeli, Muslim and Jew, and wanted everyone to know it was no big deal. There was no statement made, no cause advanced, other than the bid to go as far they could in the Wimbledon draw."

Aisam ul-Haq Qureshi of Pakistan apparently is getting is some trouble for this in his homeland which is very unfortunate.

What these two men are doing is providing the example that would have delighted St. Gaspar in witnessing the community that can happen when we break down the obstacles that prevent us from living in peace. This is the same thing that was spoken of here a few days ago where people are called to act according to need in spite of whatever obstacles society places in our way. Our world is in need of this healing and where would we be if these men had said, “I can’t.”

This wasn’t about race, politics or even religion. It was only about sport and life. Still, this is something St Gaspar and St. Paul would have celebrated:

“But now in Christ Jesus you who once were far off have been brought near in the blood of Christ. For he is our peace, who has made us both one, and has broken down the dividing wall of hostility, by abolishing in his flesh the law of commandments and ordinances, that he might create in himself one new man in place of the two, so making peace.” (Eph 2:13-15)

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 10:43 AM link

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To Pray and to Challenge

Reading the list of the apostles in this morning's Gospel (Matt 10:1-7) is always an enjoyable experience for me. A whole host of stories come to mind. Peter and Andrew were hard working fishermen. The sons of Zebedee may have been part of a larger fishing industry. Phillip has a Greek name so his story must be interesting. And then there are the sinners included. You don’t hear much in the theology books about the fact that one of the first bishops was a terrorist. Simon the Canaanite is known in other gospels as a Zealot Party member. And of course, Matthew the tax collector is named.

These were just ordinary people, Jews, Greeks, hard workers and politically marginalized. But Jesus calls them together and gives them authority. This may be a place for our current bishops to pay attention to what kind of authority they have been given.

The simple message he gives them to proclaim is the same one proclaimed by himself at the beginning of his ministry and by John the Baptist at the beginning of the Gospel: “The Kingdom of Heaven is near”

I think Gaspar would ask us to pray for our bishops. They are, after all, just simple folk from a much wider array of experiences and stories as the first twelve. But he would also call us to challenge them in much the same way as Gaspar challenged Pius VII about Sonnino. We need to be reminded that we have authority over evil, that God is close, and that we have responsibility for our own house before he sends us to the nations.

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 9:45 AM link

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Mass for the Gift of Tears

During their meeting in Dallas the Bishops used a Mass from the New Roman Missal. The Mass for Tears that they used on June 14th is included among the Masses for the Forgiveness of Sins in the recently revised Missale Romanum, editio typica tertia. This English language translation was approved at the request of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments.

I am not the kind of person to want to enter the debate in a public forum (maybe privately) about zero tolerance. I believe that Precious Blood Spirituality calls us to a generous forgiveness to an extravagant degree for the worst of sinners. "In Christ and in his blood, we are redeemed and our sins forgiven, so immeasurably generous is God's favor to us." (see Eph. 1:3-10) Certainly none of us has a right to be a priest. It is always grace, gift and mystery. Yet too much of the dialogue has been regarding recrimination and punishment. Let us leave the question of resignations and defrocking to those who have some authority to deal with these questions.

I believe the Bishops have given us a great gift in these Mass Prayers. I propose that we use them and use them several times at appropriate occasions through the next few months. Good vocations are the fruit of communities of prayer. Today’s gospel asked us to pray the harvest master to send workers to this harvest. Maybe these humble prayers will be a good start.

I would love to participate in a dialogue about these prayers and how and when best to use them. Please leave a comment.

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 9:41 PM link

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To what am I
willing to listen?

Hearing the Pharisees in this morning’s gospel call Jesus “demonic” reminds me of the labels we tend to place on one another from time to time. This person is liberal. That one is conservative. The other one is a radical. The Mayor of Alameda, CA used to call me a radical simply because of the preaching I did on the need for affordable housing. (Parishioners moved out when their 2-bedroom flat went from $800 a month to $2600 a month.)

When we call each other names like this, we are giving ourselves permission not to listen. They are different from us. They have different opinions. They make different judgments. Their thinking baffles me. So that gives me permission not to pay attention to their feelings. That gives us permission to reject them as persons.

We don’t have to understand their thinking. We do not have to like their judgments. We can oppose their opinions. But no on has given us permission to reject their person, or not to listen for their feelings.

I once invited the Mayor to breakfast. It wasn’t a public forum. It was a private breakfast in the rectory. He never took off his coat. He did not eat a thing. He was defensive and combative the whole time. He refused to listen. How can that be dialogue? How can we receive each other as person if we refuse to listen or dialogue?

St. Gaspar goes to Sonnino. It is a hotbed of banditry and outlaws. He is armed with nothing but the Gospel. It takes him three years but he affects reconciliation and the town is saved and can move to normalcy. The alternative choices were violence and destruction.

Jesus enters our town. To describe our village at the moment, let us look to the first reading from Hosea (Hos 8:4-11, 11-13). He does not come with judgment or even violence. He has pity and compassion. He recognizes the thirst, even though the thoughts, opinions and judgments have been different. He comes with healing and compassion.

We are followers of Jesus. We are inspired by Gaspar. What are the voices we should be listening for? What are the thirsts and doubts and sins of our own world that make up the present harvest? Are we willing to ask for laborers for this harvest? Who cares if the Mayor calls us a radical? Horror of horrors, they might even think we are liberal. Which Gospel do we follow?

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 9:56 AM link

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“I can’t” never did anything!

My maternal grandmother has been deceased for more than 30 years but this expression of hers was ringing in my ears this morning when I read the Gospel of the day (Matthew 9:18-26). It seem there were lots of “I can’ts” that could have been running through that Gospel. The official just asked Jesus to lay his hand on a dead girl, which would have made him ritually impure. The woman who suffered with a hemorrhage for twelve years reached out to touch him. That would have been an affront for a woman to touch a man who was not her husband and relative, and it would have been improper for Jesus to speak to her, yet both happened. All sorts of laws and customs would have prevented today’s gospel. But “I can’t” never did anything. There is a sense in these people that obstacles are not supposed to get in the way. Two people faced with “I can’t” determine that their faith tells them otherwise. Gaspar was the same kind of person. He would see something that need to be done and he would do it. I suppose four years in prison could have told him that he did not have a mission, but instead he transformed that prison into a place of joy. (Gaspar and his followers were known as the "gaudentes," the joyful ones.) The challenge of the gospel for us to day may be to ask the question of ourselves: What kind of healing do we need, and what are we willing to do about it? Of course, it is God who does the healing, but he is not willing to impose himself on us. He wants us to ask in faith. Glory be to God whose power working in us can do infinitely more than we ask or can imagine. That's it! We have to ask and imagine.

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 11:28 AM link

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Introducing...

My name is Susan Maduell and I became a Precious Blood Companion at the Assembly in May of this year 2002. My journey towards becoming a Companion began in August of 1998 when I started attending St. Barnabas Church in Alameda. The pastor at that time, Fr. Jeff Keyes, hired a very dear friend of mine, Sister Ann Diskin, to be his Pastoral Associate. I attended Mass with her to support her in her new position at St. Barnabas Church. Even though I was a parishioner in another church, the warmth and spirituality of the community drew me closer to St. Barnabas. For that reason, I became a parishioner.

I first learned about the Precious Blood spirituality and the power of His Most Precious Blood to reconcile and renew through the homilies, talks and the Parish Missions at St. Barnabas Church given by the Precious Blood Priests. I was moved, inspired, encouraged and changed every time I attended a Parish Mission. The more I learned about the Precious Blood spirituality, the more I became quite interested.

In February of 2000, I found myself at a crossroad in my journey. Something was pulling me closer to a more ministry-filled life. Although most of my time away from work was spent in church ministry, I still wanted much more. I had been considering religious life for a few years, and I was thinking this is it…I need to make a decision. At a Friday night Holy Hour, I was very distraught about my current job and I was asking God for guidance. At the same time, Fr. Jeff, who had just lost his Music Director and his Secretary within 2 months, was there praying to God for guidance. When the service ended, Fr. Jeff approached me and asked me what I did for a living and if I was happy in my position. I told him I was not happy and was praying for help. He then asked me if I would be interested in applying for the secretary position at St. Barnabas Church. What a blessing for both of us, he gained a secretary and I gained full time ministry in the church.

My time working at St. Barnabas gave me the opportunity to learn more about the Precious Blood Fathers, Companions, Sisters, and Adorers. So much more that I was inspired to go a step further. I had been considering entering religious life for a few years and I was exploring religious orders. Many different religious orders were sending me emails, brochures and letters inviting me to meet them, including the Adorers and the Precious Blood Sisters. I did not know who the Adorers were until I came to St. Barnabas. After I found out more about their similar spirituality, I flew to Texas and had a wonderful time meeting and learning all about the Adorer’s of the Precious Blood of Christ.

One day I asked Fr. Jeff “What is a Companion” and his answer to me was “Why don’t you come to the Companion Meeting?” So, I did. This Companion group was a group of friends and colleagues who I already knew, so I was very comfortable coming into such a large group. I enjoyed learning more about St. Gaspar and his life and how these Precious Blood Fathers and Companions lived out their lives in the light of St. Gaspar. It has been an incredible journey for me. I decided after going to the Alameda Companions for a year, I wanted to meet this much smaller group in Newark, who I had been emailing and sending letters to for Fr. Jeff. They were a group of people I did not know yet, and just as wonderful. I feel blessed to be so close to both groups. The Companions are a family of people connected by the same spirit and everyone has their own unique gifts to share. I am incredibly blessed to be in such a group, and for the wonderful journey that enabled me to become a Precious Blood Companion.

Susan Maduell receives Companion "Cup and Cross" pin from Fr. James Sloan, C.PP.S. Director of Companions

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 11:10 PM link

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New Provincial Council


Congratulations to the new provincial council of the Pacific Province of the Missionaries of the Precious Blood, elected to a new four-year term on Thursday June 27, 2002. The New Council consists of Fr. Ron Wiecek, C.PP.S. as Provincial Director. Fr. Ro n also serves as Pastor of St. Barnabas Parish in Alameda, CA. Next is Fr. Jeffrey Finley, C.PP.S. as Vice-Provincial. Fr. Finley also serves as Pastor of St. Edward Church in Newark, CA. Fr. Gary Luiz, C.PP.S. was elected as Second Councilor. He also serves as Adjudant Judicial Vicar for the Diocese of Oakland and on the Provincial Vocation team. Third Councilor is Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. who also serves as Inter-provincial director of Advanced Formation for the Missionaries of the Precious Blood in Chicago.


The Missionaries of the Precious Blood, Province of the Pacific, serve in the Dioceses of Oakland, Monterey, Los Angeles, Mexico City, Indianapolis, Chicago

Below is a link to a picture of the new Council. Left to Right, Jeffrey Keyes, CPPS, Jeffrey Finley, CPPS, Ronald Wiecek, CPPS, and Gary Luiz, CPPS.

The New Provincial Council

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 10:35 PM link

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Lectio Divina

This article was published recently in The Precious Blood Family in the July/August 2002 issue. For information about subscribing to The Precious Blood Family, please send me an email.

An important part of any prayer is the act of listening. Certainly when we come to God we ask for what we need and we praise God for his goodness. But we must also come with an openness seeking to listen to his will and to his way. Worship means that we listen to the Master’s voice and respond. The Holy Father in our own day, and even our own spirituality as members of a Precious Blood family call us to listen to the voice of Jesus’ Blood which speaks more eloquently than that of Abel.

The scriptures speak of the Good Shepherd who brings out his flock and goes before them. They follow him because they know his voice. (John 10:1-10) If many of us do not live on farms this image may not speak to us, but if we have ever had a family dog, we know that the sound of our voice is enough to call the pet to our side. This is the kind of listening we need to develop with God.

How do we listen to God? How do we pay attention to his heart, to his way and to his word? The ancients used a practice known as Lectio Divina or Sacred Reading. There are many ways of using this practice down through the centuries and it is described in many ways. Lectio is a reading of the Bible or other sacred texts like the Fathers of the Church or St. Gaspar and Blessed Maria de Mattias in a prolonged contemplative prayer and dialogue. This is different from spiritual reading where one might read several chapters of a spiritual book in one sitting. In Lectio one reads a passage slowly in a way that enables one to “chew” the words, to taste them in much the same way as Ezekiel took the scroll on which the Word of God was written and ate it. (Ezek 3:3) Some find it helpful to read the text aloud and this was very common as an ancient practice. It may take an hour or so to read the Gospel of Mark, but with Lectio it would take several weeks or months.

The first task is to bring yourself, your life and situation to a place of prayer. Prayer is not about a life we imagine we might want to live, but about the life we are living. Then select a passage from a book in the bible or from another of our sacred texts. Read the passage over a few times. Maybe read the passage aloud. Try not to form any response to the text, but listen to what is being said. Go beyond to the text to the person speaking. Now sit for a few moments of silence with what you have heard. What was said? What did God say? Then read the passage again a few more times. This time ask yourself how the passage made you feel. What feelings did these words or this situation provoke in you? Try to avoid thoughts, opinions or judgments but stay with the feelings. What is the heart of Jesus saying? How does my heart respond to his feelings? Then rest for a time in silence with these feelings. Read the passage again a few times. This time ask yourself how God wants you to put his word into action. What is the invitation or the challenge? What must I do to see the Word made flesh in me? Select one concrete action that you can accomplish in the coming day or week. Make sure that it is something you can do, and commit to doing it. Close with a short prayer, maybe the Our Father or another favorite prayer.

Lectio is a reading of God’s word with the eyes and ears of a spouse. It is not a prayer to confirm my own understanding of life. It is a word that desires to break in, to upset my prejudices and lead to a fuller revelation. Lectio is long term activity, not a source of immediate gratification. Lectio is about vocation, the call of God. We are to hear God as he is and not as we want him to be, and we are called to respond. This is a prayer that is to be applied to my own life situation. This time of prayer is supposed to be purposelessness with a sense of gratuity, leisure, and peace. It is about a relationship of love and is not intended to be utilitarian. Reading and praying is not just for the mind. The body must be involved. At the end of the prayer take a passage, a sentence or a word to remember through the day and to bring us back to the encounter.

Because Lectio Divina is dialogue it is therefore reception, self-gift and communion. It is reception by attention and reflection; self-gift through our response; communion through encounter. Our companion on this journey is Mary who kept all these words in her heart.

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 3:43 PM link

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What helps us to realize that, in God's sight, we do not have to pretend that we are more than we are, that we can be like children before God?

I think that today’s (Sunday July 7th) readings call us to an incredible confidence in God. St. Gaspar has a marvelous letter (Letter 62) on this kind of confidence. It is three pages long and I would gladly email it to anyone who asks.

Here is a segment:

“Oh how can a creature allow himself to be dominated by dejection or languidness of spirit! You, oh soul, you by yourself (writes a great ascetic) will never be good for anything; but, with God's assistance you will be like a zero in mathematics: no matter how often you multiply a zero, the result is always zero; but, add units to them and they become thousands and millions. God, added to your nothingness, will change you and make you a totality of omnipotence. To be sure, why did the Lord always select the weak, the unlearned, those despised in the eyes of the world for his greatest undertakings, if not to banish from our hearts every feeling of diffidence, filling them with holy trust in his divine power? Confortamini in Domino, et in potentia virtutis eius! (Be Strengthened in the Lord and in the power of his goodness)

Cast a glance at Moses who was sent before the Pharaoh; a look at David who was destined to fight against the giant; see the Apostles who promulgated the sacred Gospel, ... then, let me know if allowing oneself to be overtaken by excessive timidity and pusillanimity is or is not a great wrong against the Almighty and an evident proof that one has not sufficiently acknowledged the amiability of his heart. Si Deus pro nobis, quis contra nos? (If God is for us, who can be against)”






How can we know that, in spite of our contradictions, we are already "children of God?"

Here are a few more scripture passages that help us focus on today’s readings:

Mark 10:13-16:
People were bringing little children to him in order that he might touch them; and the disciples spoke sternly to them. {14} But when Jesus saw this, he was indignant and said to them, "Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. {15} Truly I tell you, whoever does not receive the kingdom of God as a little child will never enter it." {16} And he took them up in his arms, laid his hands on them, and blessed them.



John 3:35
The Father loves the Son and has placed all things in his hands.

John 10:15
just as the Father knows me and I know the Father. And I lay down my life for the sheep.

John 13:3
Jesus, knowing that the Father had given all things into his hands, and that he had come from God and was going to God,



Sirach 51:23-30
Draw near to me, you who are uneducated,
and lodge in the house of instruction.

Why do you say you are lacking in these things,
and why do you endure such great thirst?

I opened my mouth and said,
acquire wisdom for yourselves without money.
Put your neck under her yoke,
and let your souls receive instruction;
it is to be found close by.

See with your own eyes
that I have labored but little
and found for myself such serenity.

Hear but a little of my instruction,
and through me you will acquire silver and gold.

May your soul rejoice in God's mercy,
and may you never be ashamed to praise him.

Do your work in good time,
and in his own time God will give you your reward.

posted by Fr. Jeffrey Keyes, C.PP.S. on 12:57 AM link

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