Revelation 10:8-11; Ps 119 How sweet to my taste is your promise; Luke 19:45-48
Initially reading the first reading an encountering the command of the angel to John to eat the scroll that would be both "sweet & sour", I couldn't help but think of chinese take out and that oh so delicious sweet & sour cause.
There are uncertainties as to when the sweet & sour sauce was invented or where it originated but perhaps we could just point to the book of revelation, it seems heavenly after all.
Why "sweet & sour?" Why does the scroll have that combination, that bitter sweet reality.
The notes in the bible commentary suggest that the sweet and sour have to do with the message the angel hands over to John. The sweetness refers to the "final victory" contained with int he message. The sour refers to the suffering the people will have to endure.
It could also point to the fact that when the prophet speaks a word from God there is both sweetness from having heard God but also the sourness in having to proclaim the message. The word of God is both grace and challenge for the hearers and the speaker.
When have you encountered the sweetness of God's word in your life?
When have your felt the sour tone of challenge and woe?
How do we allow the sweetness of God's word strengthen us through the sufferings we endure for living our faith?
Today we we honor Blessed Miguel Pro. He was ordained a catholic priest in 1925 and spent a year in Mexico during the persecution of the church. He went around giving the sacraments, teaching the faith, and encouraging the catholics not to surrender to the persecutions. He was a bit of sweetness in the sour of persecution for the people of God. Though anticlerical and antichurch, the government did not deter Fr Miguel from proclaiming the message.
HE was arrested for being a Catholic priest in 1927, on november 23, 1927 he faced the firing Squad. HE extended his hands in the form of a cross and as the bullets came his way he prayed, "viva Cristo Rey!" A little sweetness echoing through his life and in his death. He did not lose sight of the final victory even in the midst of sufferings.
Initially reading the first reading an encountering the command of the angel to John to eat the scroll that would be both "sweet & sour", I couldn't help but think of chinese take out and that oh so delicious sweet & sour cause.
There are uncertainties as to when the sweet & sour sauce was invented or where it originated but perhaps we could just point to the book of revelation, it seems heavenly after all.
Why "sweet & sour?" Why does the scroll have that combination, that bitter sweet reality.
The notes in the bible commentary suggest that the sweet and sour have to do with the message the angel hands over to John. The sweetness refers to the "final victory" contained with int he message. The sour refers to the suffering the people will have to endure.
It could also point to the fact that when the prophet speaks a word from God there is both sweetness from having heard God but also the sourness in having to proclaim the message. The word of God is both grace and challenge for the hearers and the speaker.
When have you encountered the sweetness of God's word in your life?
When have your felt the sour tone of challenge and woe?
How do we allow the sweetness of God's word strengthen us through the sufferings we endure for living our faith?
Today we we honor Blessed Miguel Pro. He was ordained a catholic priest in 1925 and spent a year in Mexico during the persecution of the church. He went around giving the sacraments, teaching the faith, and encouraging the catholics not to surrender to the persecutions. He was a bit of sweetness in the sour of persecution for the people of God. Though anticlerical and antichurch, the government did not deter Fr Miguel from proclaiming the message.
HE was arrested for being a Catholic priest in 1927, on november 23, 1927 he faced the firing Squad. HE extended his hands in the form of a cross and as the bullets came his way he prayed, "viva Cristo Rey!" A little sweetness echoing through his life and in his death. He did not lose sight of the final victory even in the midst of sufferings.
Chaplet of Miguel Pro
Blessed Miguel, before your death, you told your friend to ask you for favors when you were in Heaven. I beg you to intercede for me and in union with Our Lady and all the angels and saints, to ask Our Lord to grant my petition, provided that it be God's Will. {mention the request}
We honor and adore the triune God. The Gloria. We ask the Holy Spirit for guidance. Come Holy Ghost. We pray as Jesus taught us to pray. The Our Father. We venerate with love the Virgin Mary. Hail Mary. All you angels, bless you the Lord forever. Saint Joseph, Saint {name of your patron}, and all the saints, pray for us.
Blessed Miguel, high spirited youth, pray for us. Viva Christo Rey. Blessed Miguel, loving son and brother, pray for us. Viva Christo Rey. Blessed Miguel, patient novice, pray for us. Viva Christo Rey. Blessed Miguel, exile from your homeland, pray for us. Viva Christo Rey. Blessed Miguel, prayerful religious, pray for us. Viva Christo Rey. Blessed Miguel, sick and suffering, pray for us. Viva Christo Rey. Blessed Miguel, defender of workers, pray for us. Viva Christo Rey. Blessed Miguel, courageous priest in hiding, pray for us. Viva Christo Rey. Blessed Miguel, prisoner in jail, pray for us. Viva Christo Rey. Blessed Miguel, forgiver of persecutors, pray for us. Viva Christo Rey. Blessed Miguel, holy martyr, pray for us. Viva Christo Rey.
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