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In today's Office of Readings we encounter a reading from a sermon on the Beatitudes by Saint Leo the Great, pope (-461 A.D.). For a reflection, "I shall put my laws within them," please click on the image. Peace be with you!
Aidan of Lindisfarne was an Irish monk and missionary credited with restoring Christianity to Northumbria. He founded a monastic cathedral on the island of Lindisfarne, served as its first bishop, and traveled ceaselessly throughout the countryside, spreading the gospel to both the Anglo-Saxon Nobility and to the socially disenfranchised (including children and slaves).
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Peace be with you!
Join us each day as we briefly encounter together holy Scripture and a daily Bible reflection. Spread the Word. Spread the faith. For your daily dose of My Daily Bread, please click on the image. Peace be with you!
In today's Office of Readings we encounter a reading from a commentary on John by Origen of Alexandria (184-254 A.D.).
Origen is a giant among early Christian thinkers. He was knowledgeable in all the arguments of the Greek philosophical schools but believed firmly in the Bible as the only source of true inspiration. He is thus a representative of that curious hybrid called “Christianity”, which on the one hand maintains (like the Jews) an ongoing direct relationship with the living God, who is the principle and source of being itself, but on the other hand maintains (like the Greeks) that everything makes sense rationally and it is our duty to make sense of it. As the Gospels say (but the Pentateuch does not), “You shall love the Lord your God with all your mind”. (Credit: from our friends at Universalis.com).
For a reflection on "Christ spoke of his body as a temple," please click on the image.
Peace be with you!
