Unless I believe (St. Anselm of Canterbury)

  For I do not seek to understand 

in order to believe, 

but I believe in order to understand.  

For I believe this:  

unless I believe, I will not understand. 

-Anselm of Canterbury, 

Proslogion

Why this image?  

Well, you don't need to understand the mechanics of a bicycle 

in order to ride a bike, right?

You just have to believe...  

Image source:  https://lifehopeandtruth.com/change/blog/overcoming-sin-is-like-learning-to-ride-a-bike/

Quotation source

We will serve the Lord (John Waller)

 I’m done 

Building my own kingdom 

No more 

Seeking worthless idols 

  

Like sheep we have all gone astray 

We must choose this day 

Whom we will serve 

As for me and my house 

We will serve the Lord 

We will serve the Lord 

Idols raised, tear them down 

'Cause we will serve the Lord 

We will serve the Lord 

To one king we bow down 

As for me and my house 

We will only serve the Lord 

  

I’m done 

With powerless religion 

No more 

Living in deception 

  

Refrain 

  

We will cross over Jordan 

We will claim what you promised 

  

Refrain 

  

We will not give our hearts to another 

Will not give our hearts to another 

We belong to the Lord 

We will not give our hearts to another 

Will not give our hearts to another 

We will only serve the Lord 

To see As For Me and My House performed by John Waller, click on the video below.

Image source:  Marc Chagall, etching, Joshua Reads the Words of the Law (1956),  http://northernway.org/twm/mary/bride.html

Video source

Bread is more than bread, wine is more than wine (Henri Nouwen)

   We will never fully understand the meaning of the sacramental signs of bread and wine when they do not make us realize that the whole of nature is a sacrament pointing to a reality beyond itself.  The presence of Christ in the Eucharist becomes a ‘special problem’ only when we have lose our sense of his presence in all that is, grows, lives, and dies.  What happens during a Sunday celebration can only be a real celebration when it reminds us in the fullest sense of what continually happens every day in the world which surrounds us.  Bread is more than bread, wine is more than wine; it is God with us – not as an isolated event once a week but as a concentration of a mystery about which all of nature speaks day and night.

--Henri Nouwen, Creative Ministry

Image source:  http://www.filcatholic.org/eucharist-and-environment-celebrating-life-and-celebrating-earth-in-laudato-si/