Called to Contemplate and Pass on the Fruits of Contemplation
B.ECCLESIASTES 3:1-11
“There is an appointed time for everything, and a time for every affair under
the heavens.
A time to give birth, and a time to die, a time to plant, and a
time to uproot the plant. A time to kill, and a time to heal; a time to tear
down, and a time to build. A time to weep, and a time to laugh; a time to
mourn, and a time to dance. A time to scatter stones, and a time to gather
them; a time to embrace, and a time to be far from embraces. A time to
seek, and a time to lose; a time to keep, and a time to cast away. A time to
rend, and a time to sew; a time to be silent, and a time to speak. A time to
love, and a time to hate; a time of war, and a time of peace. What profit
have workers from their toil? I have seen the business that God has given
to mortals to be busied about. God has made everything appropriate to its
time, but has put the timeless into their hearts so they cannot find out,
from beginning to end, the work which God has done.”
REFLECTION
By: Sr. Agatha, OCD
-We are all called to a relationship with God who has put the timeless in
our hearts. As contemplatives, we witness to the timeless in each one’s life…in the midst of our daily life we experience that all things are passing away; St. Augustine puts it more precisely when speaking of God, “ You have made us for yourself and our hearts are restless till they rest in You”.
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