I Installed Feedjit Today

And discovered what I already knew. No one reads my blog. Why do I bother? Oh what a pity party.

Okay, I'm over that. I blog because I like it, and sometimes, believe it or not, I have something important to say. Not long ago I promised to focus this blog on the daily readings from either the LOTH or Mass. I intend to keep that promise because without focusing on the scriptures then we are not in any communication with God. It is in the study and reading, and lectio that we encounter God.

We all read countless books on spirituality, formation to a certain kind of life, how to be happier, how to have a holy lent, how to give up bad habits, and on and on and on and on. How much time do you spend actually reading the books of the Bible? I was horrified this morning at Office of Readings: "Pharaoh then gave his subjects this command: ‘Throw all the boys born to the Hebrews into the river, but let all the girls live.’" I was just as horrified by the Gospel when Jesus said

The Son of Man must suffer greatly and be rejected
by the elders, the chief priests, and the scribes,
and be killed and on the third day be raised.

That just seems so unfair for poor Jesus to have to put up with that. So we have drowning of baby boys, and Jesus knowledge that nothing good was going to really happen for us until he suffered like a common slave and criminal. If you have not read both of those today, then you are less for the lack of contact with the Holy Writ.

I challenge all of you, all three of you, to put down one spiritual book you were going to read, and give that time to serious lectio divina. Let God speak to you. The results may astonish you.