tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post6051583594474019740..comments2024-02-18T06:21:45.375-06:00Comments on ~<i>The Three Prayers</i>: Reed of God ~ FiatJanet Cupohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01037555111680888247noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-65538301654163074612015-12-09T08:02:45.886-06:002015-12-09T08:02:45.886-06:00I wouldn't worry about being behind. I'm s...I wouldn't worry about being behind. I'm sure everyone is very busy. I have read part of this book most Advent for years and I've never finished it. In fact, this is the farthest I've ever gotten--I'm on <i>Et Verbum Caro Factum Est</i>--and I've only been able to do that because I'm listening to it in the car and because I have this commitment.<br /><br />AMDGJanethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09069018443486415173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-47157955854264196502015-12-08T20:47:38.001-06:002015-12-08T20:47:38.001-06:00I knew that I would fall behind in the reading. I&...I knew that I would fall behind in the reading. I'm still on this section.<br /><br />Last night I was reading the bit about trust and fear, about how the latter is an impediment to the former, and about how Our Lady's "fiat" expressed not only her trust, but also a certain fearlessness. C.H. pointed out how tempting it can be for us to put our trust in <i>money</i> -- not without some reason, since it can protect and shelter us from trouble to some extent. When Our Lady entrusted herself to God, she received the Holy Spirit as her spouse, and she also received her dead son in her arms. I think C.H. put it that way. It is a hard thing to see this as the best and most fruitful way.<br /><br />I have nothing really to say. Only that I'm very much appreciating the book.Craighttp://cburrell.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-21387234581514138472015-12-04T11:38:27.309-06:002015-12-04T11:38:27.309-06:00I was thinking about Mary Grace in relationship to...I was thinking about Mary Grace in relationship to Kate this morning, and praying for y'all.<br /><br />AMDGJanethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09069018443486415173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-15440480005416400152015-12-04T10:09:27.801-06:002015-12-04T10:09:27.801-06:00I remember when Mary Grace was born with spina bif...I remember when Mary Grace was born with spina bifida and we were devastated, we met another family going through the same thing. When they prayed they thanked God for this experience to know Him in a new way. I thought they were crazy. I was anything but thankful. However, when I read Colossians, St. Paul repeatedly tells them to dedicate themselves to thankfulness as they are being martyred and rejected by their communities and I started thinking maybe it is beneficial (by no means easy) to give thanks in all things. Now I'm being challenged again after the death of my granddaughter. I 'feel' anything but thankful but I choose to believe that God in his infinite wisdom has a better plan than the one I have. C.H. was writing this at a time of horrible war and suffering so it must have been hard for her to have a thankful heart, too. Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18421930146520374159noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-67927812408094513982015-12-03T07:23:56.765-06:002015-12-03T07:23:56.765-06:00Marianne, I walk around with ideas about what I...Marianne, I walk around with ideas about what I'm going to write about in my head and that quote was one of the things I forgot to put in. I meant to write about it in relationship to something else, and I don't remember what the something else is. ;-)<br /><br />I've seen that clip before. It was the first time I got any feel for who Percy was outside of his work. There aren't many authors who do not disappoint me when I "get to know" them. He is one that didn't.<br /><br />AMDGJanethttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09069018443486415173noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-29539162369547997132015-12-02T21:02:51.203-06:002015-12-02T21:02:51.203-06:00Speaking of the Holy Spirit coming to young Mary, ...Speaking of the Holy Spirit coming to young Mary, there's this: "This is something that can happen to everyone now, but it could not have happened to anyone but for the <i>fiat</i> of the peasant girl in Nazareth whom the whole world calls Our Lady."<br /><br />Never thought of that.<br /><br />It also leapt out at me because it reminded me of a video clip on YouTube of Walker Percy speaking at Notre Dame when he received the Laetare Medal. He tells about how as small child when he was learning the names of football teams, "Notre Dame" stood out as different from all the others. He goes on to say that as an adult he came to see it as lovely and touching that a big university and a football team should call itself simply "Our Lady". You can watch the clip <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T6jaJy3gL2I" rel="nofollow">here</a>.<br /><br />I'd never thought of that either.<br />Mariannenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-29180358689921616102015-12-02T10:13:13.631-06:002015-12-02T10:13:13.631-06:00Thanks, Mary.
AMDGThanks, Mary.<br /><br />AMDGJanet Cupohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01037555111680888247noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6774681833222176907.post-13456061487733702322015-12-02T09:49:47.432-06:002015-12-02T09:49:47.432-06:00"...yet, it is only on the other side of that... "...yet, it is only on the other side of that leap that we can be really peaceful, that we can see that every loss is a gift and every pain is the coin of the realm, that we can look into the future without fear" -- so helpful - trying to live into it. Thanks.Marynoreply@blogger.com