Month: May 2023

Sunday 4 June 2023 (’08) : THE MOST HOLY TRINITY : A

1. EXOD34:4-6, 8-9!

The/Lord! Properly named YAHWEH! Presented as masculine in biblical narratives! TheOne-of-Tenderness&Compassion! But usually depicted by ELOHIM’S Scribes as moody&irrational : to give the impression that ELOHIM is the more attractive…

2. DAN3:52-56!

Isn’t it safer to ‘Bless-YAHWEH’S-Name’, than to untangle Him from the machinations of TheTemple scribes, &thereafter proceed to Incarnate-HisCompassion-for-All…?

3. 2COR13:11-13!

Apart from ‘TheHolyKiss’, I can imagine these phrases falling like a shower of confetti!

But aren’t they also a huge challenge to my local church, ‘What really enthuses us?’…

4. JN3:16-18!

Can I credit that this cut&dried declaration is really ‘Words-of-Jesus’? One way or another, ‘Belief-in-TheSon’ seems central! That is, ‘Base-YourTotal-Life-in-TheChrist’!

RIDDLE!

What relevance has ‘TheTrinity’ for this 21stCentury?

‘Well, it’s still the infallible doctrine of TheChurch!’

‘Isn’t it used in all TheSacraments?’

‘It’s a hint of the loving intimacy called-for in the local church!’

‘It’s a compromise exposition of TheThreeAncientBiblicalDivinities,

Elohim, Yahweh, &Chokmah!’

Refections and comments can be emailed to adbi@chokmah.ie

Sunday 28 May 2023 (’08) : PENTECOST

(Pentecost=Shevuôth! Feast-of-Sevens=Weeks : FiftyDays-after-Passover)

(&Look! OurLady-of-Fatima on Tuesday!)

1. AA2:1-11!

‘TheApostles’! Did that include WomenApostles, like MaryMagdalene? Or does it reflect the early masculinising of the various aspects of development of ‘TheChurch’?

2. PS103:1, 24, 29-31, 34 (More pick ‘n’ choose!)

We remember, that ‘spirit=breath’! So, in what ways am I valuing the gift of every breath? &Using my breath as consciously&compassionately as I can, for all?

3. 1COR12:3-7, 12-13!

I was taught to rhyme-off ‘TheSevenGifts-of-TheHolyGhost’! How was I enabled to actualise them as Rules&Skills&Resources-of-MyLife-as-Disciple?

4. SEQUENCE

Earnest rhetoric indeed! Full of pious inhalation! But which thought or image can I pluck, &place in my heart, &seek the reality-of, in this PentecostEucharist?

5. JN20:19-23!

In JN, TheHolyBreath-is-Bestowed on TheDisciples (women included?) on or near EasterSunday! But has TheStoryteller ‘Cooped-TheBreath’, by referring only to ‘sins’?

6. RIDDLE!

Why so-much Talk-Of, but so-little Evidence-Of, TheHolyBreath-of-TheChrist?

‘He’s active! but y’ just don’t recognise Him!’

‘We still lack the strong rituals that would channel It!’

‘Members-of-Church don’t need TheBreath, as urgently as ChristDisciples do!’

‘Because TheCharisms-of-Prophecy&Healing are not “politically correct”..’

Sunday 21 May 2023 (’08) : THE ASCENSION OF THE LORD : A

WORLD COMMUNICATIONS DAY

(&What’s being communicated? &How? &By-whom? &To-whom?

&On whose behalf? &Is it intelligible? &Anyone being excluded?)

1. AA1:1-11!

How has HisHolyBreath come to me, &enabled me to be HisWitness everywhere I go?

2. PS46:2-3, 6-9!

‘King-over-All-TheEarth’! So as to BringHealing-to-All-through-HisLovers!! Wow!!

3. EPH1:17-23!

Does being Followers-of-Christ make us ‘BigDeal’? Or HappyContinuers-of-HisWork?

4. MT28:16-20!

‘Make-Disciples-of-Everyone’! Not merely ‘ObedientClones’, but ‘Prophets&Healers’!

‘I-Am-with-You-Always’! ‘I-Am’, TheCompassionateOne, YearningEmbodiment!

RIDDLE!

Why TheEmphasis-on-HisAscension’? A narrative of divine honour? Left space for TheDisciples-to-Open-TheirCharisms? Opened onto TheDescent-of-TheHolyBreath?

Refections and comments can be emailed to adbi@chokmah.ie

Sunday 14th May 2023 (’08) : 6thSUNofEASTER

1. AA8:5-8, 14-17!

Is ‘preaching’ more fruitful if accompanied by ‘miracles’?

2. PS65:1-7, 16, 20!

Since before, &during my life, what has ‘God-Done-for-MySoul’?

Am I asking Him to enable my local chuch to become more ‘real’?

3. 1PET3:15-18!

What is TheHope-that-is-In-Me? What are My10Reasons-for-ThisHope?

4. JN14:15-21!

‘I-in-MyFather, You-in-Me, &I-in-You’! What a vision! &TheKey-is-Love!!

RIDDLE!

What is ThePurpose-of-MyLife-on-ThisPlanet? Save-MySoul?

Absolutely-Enjoy-MySelf? Be-a-Healer-of-All?

Refections and comments can be emailed to adbi@chokmah.ie

Sunday 7th May 2023 (’08) : 5thSUNofEASTER

1. AA6:1-7!

Why were 7Women not chosen, &prayed-with, so as then to care for the widows?

Or, is the term ‘disciples’ here, coming to have an exclusively male connotation?

2. PS32:1-2, 4-5, 18-19!

A hint here about the importance of music in the ritual-of-joy!

‘Yahweh-Fills-TheEarth-with-HisLove’! Any signs of this intriguing claim in Ireland?

3. 1PET2:4-9!

This language inclines towards institutional self-flattery, pulling the wool over our own eyes!We must always look for the concrete embodiment of it in the local church!

4. JN14:1-12!

Are there inspired voices in my local church, that put the searching revealing questions? Or is that sort of prophetic unpeeling-of-truth discouraged in various ways?

RIDDLE!

How useful, welcome, or encouraged, is TheCharism-of-Prophecy?

Like TheCharism-of-Healing, has it been Hidden-out-in-TheHenhouse?

Refections and comments can be emailed to adbi@chokmah.ie