3rd Sunday of Easter

title:Asleep, at peace
date taken: Circa March 2006
location: Anaheim, California

From today's Psalm:
As soon as I lie down, I fall peacefully asleep,
for you alone, O LORD,
bring security to my dwelling.

commentary: Pictures of people sleeping are often funny, but also always carry a sense of peace, solace. It is as if the people sleeping, taking their rest, are not bothered nor distracted by the things in this world. In parallel, so is the life of one who rests in Christ. If we rest in Him, we will find peace, and the trappings of this world will not occupy us.

“Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of wine” - St. Thomas Aquinas

Resting in Christ, baptism, and the Blood of the Cross? St. Thomas probably didn't mean it that way, but nevertheless, I thought it might make for an interesting reflection.


P.S. Sorry Lor and Ang, but it was the only sleeping picture I could find on my computer... and I wasn't going to fake one of myself.

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Palm Sunday

title: Set My Face
date taken:01.18.09
location: Walk For Life West Coast, San Francisco, California

Today's First Reading:
The Lord GOD has given me
a well-trained tongue,
that I might know how to speak to the weary
a word that will rouse them.
Morning after morning
he opens my ear that I may hear;
and I have not rebelled,
have not turned back.
I gave my back to those who beat me,
my cheeks to those who plucked my beard;
my face I did not shield
from buffets and spitting.

The Lord GOD is my help,
therefore I am not disgraced;
I have set my face like flint,
knowing that I shall not be put to shame.

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