Posted on April 09, 2020
I cannot imagine more apropos words during the coronavirus confinement than Jesus’ words: “Stay with me.” We have heard loudly the injunction to “stay at home,” and for many this has led to isolation, loneliness, or confinement with people of whom we can only endure small doses. But Jesus offers companionship, “Stay with ME.”
(Of course his injunction to “Watch and pray,” also has new meaning as we all turn on our devices to watch our holy week services.)
Posted on April 10, 2017
Throughout this Lent, I have been meditating on the call to drink the cup with the Lord. “Unless you drink this cup, you have no part in me.”
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| The Last Supper, Pascal Dagnan Bouveret |
What is the cup we are drinking? Well, certainly in the Garden when Jesus asks that the cup be passed by, he is referring to the suffering he must endure. The cup of Jesus we are to drink involves suffering. We are to embrace the suffering that Jesus calls us into as his own people, his family. We have no part in him if we do not drink it. In fact, Romans 8:17 says that we are “fellow heirs with Christ provided we suffer with him…”
