Meditation: A Minister in our Midst
AMBROSE'S TEARS
As Ambrose shared his story and complained that he could not find a pastor willing to visit a sick prisoner at the local stare prison.
One his prayer mates said:
“Ambrose, you have seen this man every week for the past 12 years- spending Christmas, Easter and birthday’s with him- Ambrose you are the man’s minister!!!”
Ambrose felt he was unworthy and not capable to bring the prayers to Eddie’s death bed- but he reluctantly agreed with his prayer group.
At 3 o’clock on a Saturday Ambrose sat on the Eddie’s bed and told him that he had been told that he, Ambrose, was his minister and asked if he wanted to pray.
There was a slight nod of Eddie’s head and as Ambrose prayed he noticed a tear had formed in Eddie’s eye socket and filled it with a tear. Taking the little finger Ambrose dipped the tip into the tear and said to Eddie:
“ I Baptize you in the name The Father , The Son, and The Holy Spirit.
After the 5 thirty mass later that day while Ambrose was at church services he received a call that Eddie had died at 5 o’clock.
robert r. lackney, chaplain
BENEDICTION: Love at the Bedside
Personal Reflection
Sister Mary Eleanor, my high school English teacher teaching:
‘…When everyone is running towards a cliff – the person who walks in the opposite direction- seems to have lost their minds’.
So we might fall into a pattern of ‘ordinariness’ we fail or do not want to change.
What has characterized our times is what might be called:
The decline of the love of the Presence of God in our lives.
It started when we began to ignore or put aside our personal faith experiences and failed to share our encounters with God with one another.
Some felt there was no such thing as the “Sacrament of the Present Moment”
A few even cast doubt on the “sacrifice of our Blessed Lord” and
… The value of our personal relationship with God.
“ We all suffer from what the world suffers”
What St. Paul calls a lack of feeling for one another: A loss of the common curtsies among strangers (trust/response/commitments/ accountability)
Love, Love for others seems to be in decline.
When love is in a decline
There is a decline of gratitude.
Gratitude for the goodness, mercy, and the Love from God.
Peace and Only Good Things
robert r. lackney, chaplin
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