Blessed Bread of life
Broken and crucified.
You who bear
The bloody lash and wear
A crown of thorns above a shattered
face.
Son of God and Son of Man,
You share in your sinful brother's load,
And walk close to your broken people.
For You are one with us in our suffering
You are one with us in our death.
You turn our pain into healing,
Our failures into greater
Risings.
Broken and ever living
Lamb of God,
Jesus, Wheat divine
You died to bring us life
For you are Love,
The good Shepherd who leads those
who hate you
and kill you,
to peaceful waters and pastures green.
You bring us to your house,
Anointing us with Life.
Bring us ever deeper into
your Heart divine,
O Lord.
14 comments:
I wonder if we're doing poetry soon.
wow... cant understand
whee...nice...
quite unlike your usual posts
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I don't quite visit your blog, but your recent posts have astounded me. Think it was very meaningful, how the Son of Man would die for our sins. There is a lot more to be conveyed.
The final commandment of Christ during the Last Supper is for his disciples to 'love one another as I have loved you' (Jn 15:12). This is also the essence of Christianity and the message of the great parables: the Prodigal Son, the Good Samaritan, the Lost Sheep and so on.
We want to see more miracles in our lives, and in the life of the world. But then do we first seek what God wants of us? Do we seek--in yearning faith--the supreme gift that is the foundation for all other gifts?
Love alone leads to peace, for our hearts are made for God, and He is love.
Just wondering Mr. Quek, if you've read Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code (You must have.) do you agree with Dan's view on Christian Church or would you rate it as blasphemous? and what would you call blasphemy in the first place?
Interesting question; well blasphemy basically means "speaking evil of God"--a meaning found in the Bible (Ps. 74:18; Isa. 52:5; Rom. 2:24; Rev. 13:1, 6; 16:9, 11, 21--courtesy of Dictionary.com).
I personally do not think Dan Brown INTENDS to use his novel to denigrate Jesus or God. However, turning Jesus into only a human being is offensive to most Christians--who by definition believe that he is the Son of God as well as the Son of man.
Dan Brown's view on the Catholic Church has some merits (witch hunts, crusades, massacre of the Knight Templars, violent persecution of heretics are historical facts). Yet it is also mixed with blatant errors (e.g. that it was a Roman emperor who compiled the Bible, or claiming that the earliest Christians did not believe in the divinity of Christ). This mixture of error and truth can lead to great confusion for many.
Then I assume falsehoods about the Lord that is not "Speaking Evil" about him is not blasphemous， even if they mislead?
Such as?
My memory doesn't serve me very well but I remember something about the contreversy of whether the Jews or the Romans crucified Jesus. I think that the blame was shifted onto the Jews. I'm not very sure. I'm not Christian.
Actually I'm not very sure if that's true but I'm asking in a "what-if" secnario. So Mr. Quek, what if there just happens to be a misrecording in the Bible. Will that be counted as blasphemous if it does not speak ill of the Lord?
Perhaps another possible scenario is that history was really according to the Gospel of Judas and Thomas, where Judas was really a hero who sacrificed his name to give a reason for Jesus' sacrifice and was Jesus' favourite disciple and understood things that the other apostles couldn't.
If Judas was carrying out Christ's will in his betrayal, why did he have to commit suicide after Jesus' death? In any event the gnostic ethos of the Gospel of Judas turns the redemptive death of Christ into something like euthanasia (self-motivated release from the corrupt flesh into the spirit). Most Christians will judge that to be blasphemy.
As for who crucified Christ--ultimately, the Bible makes it clear that the sins of ALL humanity were the cause of the Passion. Jews and Romans were hardly uniquely responsible. If we really must find a culprit, Adam and Eve are probably the ones bearing the most blame.
Oooooooooooooookay..., if you put it that way.
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