A House For Everyone : a hot air pass to politics
God wants us to belong to a church that knows how to open her arms and welcome everyone, that is not a house for the few, but a house for everyone, where all can be renewed, transformed, sanctified…
Pope Francis
80,000 seekers assemble
peaceful crowd rightly resembles
recreating congregation
oo-ing ahh-ing consecration
interjections of delight
controlled fire makes air light
inflating wrinkled skin bladders
fleshy airships gather stature
til all sigh into one rising
mass ascension realizing
not a single party sign
flails to fracture the divine
80,000 seekers gather
share delight, this is what matters
Yesterday I attended the Mass Ascension of the Albuquerque Balloon Fiesta. There was one thing missing…. politics! No maga hats, no posters, no flyers… and it occurred to me… this mass ascension is another kind of delight filled, all belong here church. AHHH… such a breath of cool, fresh air, and more than 500 beautiful, magical balloons.
Words through Debra Asis, by the grace of Infinite Generativity
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Pope Francis’ quote is found in today’s selection in An Ignatian Book of Days by Jim Manney is a series of daily reflections from the Spiritual Wisdom of St. Ignatius of Loyola. Throughout the book we hear the voices of St. Ignatius as well as many great thinkers and writers, long gone and present day, each uniquely revealing the way of finding God in all things. And that is my intention; to find God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality in whatever presents itself to me each day in 2024.
Each day I read, reflect and write on the selection, hoping to articulate the ways in which I come to know God/Divine Presence/Ultimate Reality via personal experience, impelled by the leading of my inner life.
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