I'm doing the next week in SEEL PRAYER #24: THE ARREST OF JESUS and find so much, so strong, coming to me from all directions. I know to stop and wait and listen. Yes, Lecto Listening - sounds better than divine listening which is really the meaning I’m focused on. I’m still doing Lectio Divinia or Divine reading.
As noted at the right, reading this first page filled me with the Love of Jesus. I shared a lot on the PrayerLine again this week, and this piece about the Blood of Jesus came through so strong. I ask people if I can share more, or only ask when they have said something I can respond to.
I always start by saying how God created us in His Image and set us down in the Garden of Eden, Naked and it was all GOOD . . . Until the snake showed up and messed it all up. Then when God came back and found out what happened the first thing he did was sacrifice an animal to make clothing to cover their sin.
Yes, so sin results in death and the blood that covers the sin all started here with Adam and Eve. So when Jesus came to bring us back home, he became the ultimate sacrifice, providing the blood for all sin.
Yes, the ultimate love to give his life for a friend. Or really for all of us. This came through to me stronger than ever this Easter Season, as I recognized how GOD is Holy and pure so He can’t get near any Sin at all. So for people to have any relationship or any experience of God at all we need to be cleared of all sin. Which Jesus did for everyone.
I am a living, breathing, walking testimony
I am the living proof of what the Lord has done
You May call it crazy, but they can't take away my story
'Cause I am a living, breathing, walking testimony
So DAY ONE was Matthew 26:47-56. This is really strong for me since this coincided with the Bible verses in mass, Luke 24-13-35. The couple was walking to Emmaus after the Crucifixion and Jesus joined them. He explained the Prophecies from Moses saying this same as I highlighted here at right.
Of course, the next thing I heard was Bishop Barrron who breaks it down for me even more: Bishop Barron reflects on how Jesus interpreted the scriptures beginning with Moses and all the prophets to show that the entire Old Testament serves as a template or lens through which one must view Jesus. (5:41 - 6:04). This highlights several Old Testament figures and patterns that prefigure Christ:
- Adam: Jesus is the first man of the new creation (6:28 - 6:35).
- Noah: Jesus is the new Noah, whose "ark" provides salvation during the flood of sin (6:38 - 6:50).
- Abraham and Isaac: Jesus is the fulfillment of the covenant and the true son sacrificed by the Father on the "mount" of the cross (6:51 - 7:27).
- Jacob: Jesus is the true ladder connecting heaven and earth (7:29 - 7:53).
- Moses: Jesus is the new lawgiver who leads people from the slavery of sin into the freedom of the children of God (7:54 - 8:16).
- David: Jesus is the king who takes on the powers of the world, just as David fought Goliath (8:18 - 8:33).
- Jonah: Jesus is the sign who spends three days in the "belly of the earth" (8:34 - 8:47).
- Isaiah and the Prophets: Jesus fulfills the suffering servant role in Isaiah 53, the "thrust through" messiah of Zechariah, and the bringer of the new covenant promised by Jeremiah (8:50 - 9:26).






