Today is the celebration of a Eucharistic miracle - in Assisi they celebrate June 22, the day when St. Clare, armed only with the Blessed Sacrament, repelled an invading army - they got only as far as the cloister at San Damiano, and when they saw the consecrated host, held up by St. Clare in a monstrance, they fled.
Yesterday we visited San Damiano, the first little church St. Francis rebuilt, which later became the convent for the Poor Clares, and Rivotorto, the first hovel where St. Francis and the first few friars lived, and then the Porziuncola, another small church that St. Francis rebuilt, and the hermitage where he lived for much of the rest of his life with his friars, and where he died.
Today we visit the tomb of St. Clare, and the chapel with the actual crucifix from which Jesus first spoke to St. Francis.
For some reason, wi-fi has become less reliable since I got here, and it turns out that Saturday is going to be a travel day for us anyway, so I think I will have to skip The Journey for this week, but I'll do my best with updates, and once I'm back in good ol' Florida, we'll get back to The Journey, as well as some new regular content - more to come...
I'm back, up and running, and ready to go - I should have a new JOURNEY episode within the next week or so - and because you are my loyal peeps, here is an exclusive, just-for-you, behind the scenes SNEAK PEEK into my new office:
This was for March 24th, recorded for the Ascension App
Thanks for your patience - here is our next installment of The Journey - it's session # 96, but I'm also calling it PART 1 of a "miniseries" on John chapter 6.
Whoever watches it first, please let me know if it looks good or if there are any problems with it - I get through the first two sections of the text on the feeding of the 5,000.
Enjoy!
I mentioned in The Journey that I wrote a song based on Isaiah 2, which is one of my favorite OT passages:
In days to come, the mountain of the Lord’s house
shall be established as the highest mountain, and raised above the hills.
All nations shall stream toward it. Many peoples shall come and say:
“Come, let us go up to the Lord’s mountain, to the house of the God of Jacob, That he may instruct us in his ways, and we may walk in his paths.” For from Zion shall go forth instruction, and the word of the Lord from Jerusalem.
He shall judge between the nations, and set terms for many peoples.
They shall beat their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks; One nation shall not raise the sword against another, nor shall they train for war again. House of Jacob, come, let us walk in the light of the Lord!
I hope you like the song!
