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Theo Tigno•
3/30/2005 11:59 am
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Wednesday in the Octave of Easter |
Acts 3:1-10
Peter and John were going up to the temple area for the three o'clock hour of prayer. And a man crippled from birth was carried and placed at the gate of the temple called "the Beautiful Gate" every day to beg for alms from the people who entered the temple. When he saw Peter and John about to go into the temple, he asked for alms. But Peter looked intently at him, as did John, and said, "Look at us." He paid attention to them, expecting to receive something from them. Peter said, "I have neither silver nor gold, but what I do have I give you: in the name of Jesus Christ the Nazorean, rise and walk." Then Peter took him by the right hand and raised him up, and immediately his feet and ankles grew strong. He leaped up, stood, and walked around, and went into the temple with them, walking and jumping and praising God. When all the people saw him walking and praising God, they recognized him as the one who used to sit begging at the Beautiful Gate of the temple, and they were filled with amazement and astonishment at what had happened to him.
Dawg's thought:
Today's prayer intention is for Terri Schiavo.
While beta testing an application that will be launched tomorrow, I decided to use the "Gettysburg Address" to fill some text. It is amazing to read the lines of the address thinking about how as a society we have robbed the freedom of children to live, and robbed the handicapped with the dignity of essential human freedoms such as food and drink.
In today's reading, we can see an example of how every human life has the opportunity to glorify God. The crippled man testified to God through his handicap. The same God back in the days of the disciples is the same God of today. The same human life that cannot speak or stand can still glorify God. The same human life in the womb of their mother can glorify God just as St. John heralded the coming of Jesus.
There are many who have given their lives defending freedom. Above all, there is Christ who died defending our freedom. United with Him, we can defend life through our prayers and our fasting. Today, brothers and sisters, let us stand united with The Living God to defend life recognizing that every human life is equal, and can equally glorify God. Take care and God Bless.
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