Wednesday of Holy Week
Today has been a tutorial in paska making; my third grade teacher and I have been friends for 40 years and for the first time I am making her Russian Easter bread alone. Numerous phone calls and careful instruction have yielded eight beautiful loaves.
Three trips to the store for golden raisins, flour and bread crumbs, piles of dishes and painstaking work have been fruitful. Making something new is messy; in our spiritual lives we have been busy in Lent asking God to clean our hearts through prayer, confession, fasting and almsgiving. We want souls open to God's love and mercy.
What is God creating in you this Lent?
Medicine from Sacred Writings:
"Little children who go daily to their teachers receive their lessons, and repeat them, and never cease from this kind of acquisition. For the same reason also we divide to you in portions what is written in Scripture, that you may take pains to remember them all, as to be able exactly to repeat them to others yourselves, unless anyone be sleepy and dull, and more idle than a child." St Chrysostom Homilies on St. John Homily XXV.1 NPNF1; 14.87
"If we come to the Physician, if we ask Him, He will not hide from us, but will eagerly disclose to us which of these medicines make us whole." John Chrysostom Fourth Century Homily. Medicine heals our bodies and soul medicine brings healing to our souls. Come find the medicine your heart longs for; learn from the Sacred Writings of the early church fathers and from Sacred Scripture and be made whole.
About This Blog
- Diane Hallenbeck
- Come peer through the lens of Sacred Writings and Scripture to know ourselves and be made whole. There is always medicine to apply in our lives: emotional, relational, social and spiritual. My prayer is that the words of the early church and scripture will inform our identity and bring us healing that equips us to know and serve God with all our hearts.
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