It All Ties Together
Last Sunday at Mass, the Gospel reading had Jesus being "tested" by the Pharisees - again. (Didn't these guys have anything better to do?) The question in particular was which was the greatest commandment, to which Jesus gives His wonderful "love of God" and "love of neighbor" response. Father Timby's homily (which he posts on his blog now, for those interested: http://fathervol.blogspot.com/) was very good, as usual, and has kept me thinking about the "love of God" and "love of neighbor" connections through the week. So it was in this frame of mind that the following incident occurred.
I am an avid book reader, and I keep books scattered around the house (and "scattered" is all too literal from a clutter standppoint) I pick them up at random to read from whatever point I left off. None of these are fiction, though; I have not yet mastered the art of being able to put down a fiction book without having read the entire thing... But I digress. Most of these books are devotional or theological in nature: prayer companions, meditations, and other books that have compact chapters that can be digested in bite-sized pieces.
The one that I happened to pick up tonight is by Cardinal Basil Hume, and is entitled "A Spiritual Companion." It has little snippets from various homilies of his, as well as a little prayer to go with each snippet, and a Bible verse. I opened the book to my bookmark, and the homily meditation was on - eerie musical theme - "Love of God and Love of Neighbor." It was neat to see how closely Cardinal Hume's words and Fr. Timby's words echoed and reinforced one another.
Of course, it is possible that Fr. T had recently read C. Hume's homily and merely incorporated bits of it into his own address, but I doubt it. I think it goes deeper than that. I send out daily quotes to my e-mail buddies, and I have had an intimation during the last few years of my study into the Catholic faith, how often people over the last two thousand years have independently arrived at exactly the%2
I am an avid book reader, and I keep books scattered around the house (and "scattered" is all too literal from a clutter standppoint) I pick them up at random to read from whatever point I left off. None of these are fiction, though; I have not yet mastered the art of being able to put down a fiction book without having read the entire thing... But I digress. Most of these books are devotional or theological in nature: prayer companions, meditations, and other books that have compact chapters that can be digested in bite-sized pieces.
The one that I happened to pick up tonight is by Cardinal Basil Hume, and is entitled "A Spiritual Companion." It has little snippets from various homilies of his, as well as a little prayer to go with each snippet, and a Bible verse. I opened the book to my bookmark, and the homily meditation was on - eerie musical theme - "Love of God and Love of Neighbor." It was neat to see how closely Cardinal Hume's words and Fr. Timby's words echoed and reinforced one another.
Of course, it is possible that Fr. T had recently read C. Hume's homily and merely incorporated bits of it into his own address, but I doubt it. I think it goes deeper than that. I send out daily quotes to my e-mail buddies, and I have had an intimation during the last few years of my study into the Catholic faith, how often people over the last two thousand years have independently arrived at exactly the%2
posted by Kathy Romer | 10:04 PM
1 Comments:
Jan,
As you can now read in "the rest of the post," that was my conclusion as well. Good thinking!! :^)
Kathy
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