Atgyfododd Crist! Remember the Little things #Day 19
Like Flowers of the Bible
The beautiful flowers that I received from the sisters last week are beginning to fade but the phlox are still giving off their natural fragrance in the chapel. However, the bluebells in my back yard are profuse as is the mint and thyme in my little herb garden. Even the Basil bought from the supermarket long before lockdown has taken on a deeper hue of green and more intense aroma. I recall some years ago when one of our Post Graduate Parishioners at University had a Basil plant that grew to over one metre in height because he watered it with Holy Water. I have also a beautiful Basil Cross that one parishioner gave to me- busuioc romanesc- even dried it has such an amazing distinctive fragrance.
Each day I feed the plants with a little holy water and ashes from the censer – they respond to this blessing by flourishing. No less should we be like the flowers and flourish with God’s blessings. Like the rich variety of plants, we each have our own distinctive form and beauty in order to give glory to our Creator.
Creation which is usually groaning ( Romans 8:22-24) knows that it is Bright Week and is responding accordingly with effulgent joy.
Romans 8:22-24
22 For we know that the whole creation groans and labours with birth pangs together until now. 23 Not only that, but we also who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, eagerly waiting for the adoption, the redemption of our body. 24 For we were saved in this hope, but hope that is seen is not hope; for why does one still hope for what he sees?
Like Flowers of the Bible
Isaiah 40:8 The grass withers, the flower fades: but the word of our God shall stand for ever..”
1 Corinthians 15:42
So also is the resurrection of the dead. The body is sown in corruption, it is raised in incorruption.
Consider the lilies, how they grow,
They toil not nor spin and yet they sow
Seeds of their own salvation story
In their Resurrection glory.
Save and Protect us O Lord
Rose of Sharon whose most pungent scent
Showers the drought of our discontent,
As blue Iris petal’s waking eye
Sees the Star of Bethlehem die.
Save and Protect us O Lord
Crocus and tulip seek the Light.
Cyclamen, Hyacinth both invite
The Holy Guest who with synergy
Breathes Life upon Anemone.
Save and Protect us O Lord
Young Narcissus heralds Easter morn.
His bright yellow trumpet greets the dawn
To welcome our Christ and His elect;
“Salute our God!” not self reflect.
Save and Protect us O Lord
The grass it withers, the flower it fades,
Our short lives pass in gladdening shades,
‘Til dust and ashes in the ground
By Love’s great Life-Bestower found.
Save and Protect us O Lord
Like flowers of the Bible, God says “grow!”
Our bodies too through His power will show
That last transfiguring mystery
When raised to immortality.
Save and Protect us O Lord
In love did God bring the world into existence; in love is God going to bring it to that wondrous transformed state, and in love will the world be swallowed up in the great mystery of the One who has performed all these things; in love will the whole course of the governance of creation be finally comprised.
St Isaac the Syrian
My prayers and love
Eν Χριστώ
So remarkable and beautiful ! Such a beautiful river of Calla lillies.
A priest from Washington D.C. blessed my garden.He had no holy water with him, and so we used some water that I had brought with me from the river Jordan in Israel.
These flower photos are delightful.
Thanks!
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