Sacred Sunday: Brian Miller

fierce & furious



between us
there is a
quiet intensity
that trancends
words we speak or
comforting caresses,
like a hurricane
stripping away all excess,
your love does not
go quietly
into the night.
it is real
it is painful
at times
and
i cry out
on my knees
or fall on my face.
do not let me forget your
fierce, soothing,
jealous, stretching,
undying
love.
amen.

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Today's guest blogger was Brian Miller of WaystationOne.

He is a prolific writer and poet.

If you liked what you read here,

be sure to comment over on his blog.

Thank you Brian, for being my guest today. 

Sacred Sunday: Mary

I was asked, last week, for a little clarity on Mary's role in the Catholic Church. This week my daughter Bethany has written a guest post on this topic. Please enjoy.

Icon of Mother of God 1 by Michael O'Brien

For Sacred Sunday, I get to do the blog takeover!  I am going to talk about The Blessed Virgin Mary.

Now, many people are confused about why we, as Catholics, venerate Mary. Some misunderstand and believe that we worship her. This, however, is quite far from the truth.
Catholics do not, in fact, worship Mary. We do venerate her though. 


Let’s take  the saints as an example. We pray to the saints so that they could lift our intentions up to the Lord. We do this because they are in Heaven with Him and they could… put in a good word for us, so to speak. 


Recognizing this, Mary is the Lord’s own mother. She is the only human known to be born free of original sin, thus making her worthy to be the Mother of God. Because of her sinless nature, she was assumed into heaven, body and soul, to be with her son. Therefore, who is better to carry our intentions to the Lord? Who is better than His own mother? 

In the Bible there is proof of this. There is a Gospel story called The Wedding at Cana. This is where Jesus and Mary went to a wedding and the wine ran out. So Mary went and told Jesus to transform the water into wine. When he denied the first time, she turned to the servers and said “Do whatever he says.” It was then that Jesus obeyed his mother and converted the water into wine. And thus began His ministry. 

Mary is a highly important figure to Catholics, and is the holiest of all saints, but she is not to be worshipped like God.


I hope this cleared up things!

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Thank you Bethany. That was simple and to the point. If readers are interested in more of Bethany's ponderings and musings, feel free to hop on over to her personal blog, Dear Charlie.