I was sitting by the Jesus statue the other day. It’s a nice place for prayer and contemplation. Sunny skies and a cool breeze. Starting to concentrate, then a message…from Italy. It was from a college buddy, very devout, a widower for four years. I sent him a picture. “That’s a beautiful statue.” He responded.
I replied: “though we’re about 4000+ miles apart when I mentioned Jesus—is he there for us as we are ‘together’? He said “Yep.” I added, “where two or more are gathered in my name, there I am.” “Amen” he wrote.
Sometimes we don’t think of those times when we interact with each other. Isn’t it likely that Jesus is there for us? Yep!
I write this on the feast of St. John Chrysostom. The saint with the “golden tongue.” Quite a preacher in his day. His words still hold true some 1600 years later. He faced much opposition and was exiled at the end of his life. “If Christ is with me, whom shall I fear? Though the waves and the sea and the anger of princes are roused against me, they are less to me than a spider’s web.”
And John Chrysostom connects all of us across the centuries: “Where I am, there you are too, and where you are, I am. For we are a single body, and the body cannot be separated from the head nor the head from the body.”
“Amen”
Peace,
Deacon Tom
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