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Meditations On The Love Of Jesus Christ – a book of bible verses, prayer, reflection, healing.
This is a book of meditations and reflections on the Gospels, structured to read and pray from the appearance of the Angel Gabriel to Mary all the way through to Christ’s walking with his disciples on the road to Emmaus, where their hearts burn to know that the Lord Jesus has been with them, where they recognize Jesus in their new life.
Reflections on the Bible are joined with prayer.
Perhaps towards the heart of prayer might be this:
Lord Jesus, heal me please and make me better.
I am sorry for all the things I have done wrong. I am sorry for all the ways in which I have not been as you want me to be.
Jesus, my friend, help me to acknowledge my helplessness, as a child, and so to be well in this life and to enter your Kingdom.
Lord Jesus, make me yours, please.
Forgive me. Make me better.
There is original artwork depicting scenes from the life of Jesus to assist in prayer.
This could be a beautiful gift to yourself, or to someone you love and who loves you.
It is an excellent book. It is a work of pure beauty. There is such intelligence and clarity of thought.
May the love of Jesus Christ be with us always.
Amen.
Herbert structures the poem as a dramatic monologue, with Christ narrating his journey to the Cross. The refrain not only highlights the unmatched sorrow of Christ’s ordeal but also serves as a rhetorical question that invites readers to contemplate such depth of Christ’s sacrifice. The refrain anchors each stanza and reinforces a theme of unparalleled grief [ … ]
Today’s Bible reading from the Gospel of St John speaks of the beloved disciple, and from earliest times we have identified this disciple with John. It is strange, however, that this identification is not made in the Gospel. It may be that in so readily equating the beloved disciple with John, we miss out on an important truth of the Gospel, which is that we are all beloved disciples – this title is not that of John only; it is open to us all [ … ]
‘What is truth?’ So asks Pontius Pilate at the show-trial of Jesus. Pilate’s question dismisses and inherently rejects categorical truth as value. Pilate throws the truth to the masses – who cry for the blood of Jesus. As Christians, we hope – we pray, we ask – to adhere to truth. This is our truth: that Jesus is the Son of God, that Jesus died for our sins, and that through Jesus we can attain salvation. Yet, even as we seek to live in the truth, we are tested and tempted, just as Jesus was in the wilderness by Satan [ … ]
