Thursday, March 18
Cyril, Bishop of Jerusalem (386)
Psalms 69:1-23(24-30)31-38, 73
1 Corinthians 12-26
Taken from The Message
I want you to think about how all this makes you more significant, not less. A body isn’t just a single part blown up into something huge. It’s all the different-but-similar parts arranged and functioning together. If Foot said, “I’m not elegant like Hand, embellished with rings; I guess I don’t belong to this body,” would that make it so? If Ear said, “I’m not beautiful like Eye, limpid and expressive; I don’t deserve a place on the head,” would you want to remove it from the body? If the body was all eye, how could it hear?
If all ear, how could it smell? As it is, we see that God has carefully placed each part of the body right where he wanted it.
I use The Message for my morning prayer time.... It gives a new perspective to passages that we have heard so often they become stale. Like the above I just love it! This is also “The Church” with all of us having our special gifts. Never is it more evident that with the Acolytes. They are all very different from each other but when they are on they come together to help lead the church in worship. They give such a big gift to us all. But like us all they get the gift as well! Every Sunday nine Acolytes show up to serve. They also serve for weddings and funerals. Rarely do they no! It is with an especially happy heart that I say “Thank you and Alleluia for our Acolytes.”
In Christ,
Lynn Mather