Reading Scripture

 We are fortunate to have weekday Masses by the Dominicans and then have Jesuits on the weekends. One of our Dominican priests really knows Scripture and can connect the Old and New Testament passages with great ease. He inspires me to read more Scripture. God has given us many ways to know Him and we can find God by not only reading Scripture, but by His Presence in others, in nature, in the entire universe. However, I have the Word of God sitting on my bookshelf and need to open it daily. We should all be reading a bit of the New and the Old Testament to deepen our interior life. We find time for other things.

I love to read but must confess that I have not kept my resolution to read some Scripture each day; I do prepare the reading for Mass, and we have the Psalms and other readings in our night prayer here at Westwood, but it is not the same as prayerful reading of a Gospel or One of the Letters of Paul just to see what God is saying to me today. Maybe this will be a good Lenten Resolution.

March opens with Mardi Gras and it is also one of our Sisters 104th birthday. she is still very active and very holy. I met her outside yesterday and she showed me that we have nine new rose bushes. She is so alive and now can drive herself around in an electric chair. She is still able to come to everything and we are so blessed to have her.