Topic: Blessing

Jesus says to each one of us “I am the new wine. Feed on me”.

God longs to bless us in the land we have been given, but if we fail to live in faithfulness to the welcoming God, we will destroy ourselves and alienate ourselves from God’s blessing.

God will wound us if necessary to bring us into the full blessing intended for us.

If Abraham is our common father in faith, and like him we are justified and made whole by our faith in God’s mercy, then Christians, Jews and Muslims might find unity in sharing, humbly, in the wonder of that gift together.

The beatitudes proclaim God’s preferential love for the poor and challenge us to rethink our own dependence on financial security.

God calls the most ordinary people to be his followers and through following we become a blessing to others.

God’s blessing is upon those who fully enter the pain of life and who hope beyond it.