Wednesday, December 7
FEAST OF AMBROSE, BISHOP, DOCTOR OF THE CHURCH
It’s time for some fresh thinking
Like all great leaders, Saint Ambrose was an original thinker. He was an ardent advocate for the poor: “He who sent forth his apostles without gold had not need of gold to form his church. The church possesses gold, not to hoard, but to scatter abroad and come to the aid of the unfortunate.” He also avoided rigidity when it was not helpful: “When I am in Milan, I fast; when I am in Rome, I do not.” The answers to our current struggles with poverty and diversity are, like the kingdom of heaven, very near. We only need some original thinking to perceive them. In what ways do “the ways things are” cloud our vision? How can we practice seeing with new eyes?TODAY’S READINGS: Isaiah 40:25-31; Matthew 11:28-30 (183)
“They will soar as with eagles’ wings; they will run and not grow weary, walk and not grow faint.”
CONTRIBUTORS
Alice Camille, Daniel Grippo, Father Larry Janowski, O.F.M., Ann O'Connor, Joel Schorn, Patrice J. Tuohy, and Sister Julie Vieira, I.H.M.
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Early mosaic of Ambrose that might be an actual portrait.
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"Failure to see grace in a situation is not only unhelpful, it is sacrilegious: We are profaning the sacred, the presence of the Spirit."
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