Today's OOR Reading 1 is from that wonderful passage in Exodus in which God instructs Israel as to how they are to act during the upcoming Passover of the Lord.
The meal-taking of the Hebrews is to be conducted with the haste and contingency of the alien or exile, of the journeyor or pilgrim: "You shall eat it like this: with a girdle round your waist, sandals on your feet, a staff in your hand. You shall eat it hastily: it is a passover in honour of the Lord." http://www.universalis.com/20080214/readings.htm
Yes indeed. Maybe that's why we all ... or so very many of us ... feel as we do about our Mothers. We are from birth aliens. Only our mothers show us how to conduct ourselves in this brief, brief twilight journey from birth to dying. We are born on the march, we live on the march, we die ... on the march.
I heard something of mothers I never heard before: "Mothers are so special that even God wanted his very own mother."
Oh yes ... oh Lord Jesus ... oh please please please please take good care of my good Momma ...
Charles Delacroix
Ss Cyril & Methodius
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