The Inner Room- Emotions in the Bible

Jesus comes home with mighty deeds and wisdom and gets ridiculed and minimized. Jeremiah brings a message to his work: the Israelites, and they attack him Ignatius of Loyola has meditation steps to help us see ourselves as God sees us. JER 26:1-9 In the beginning of the reign of Jehoiakim, son of Josiah, king of Judah, this message came from the LORD: Thus says the LORD: Stand in the court of the...

God uses the image potter’s wheel to speak to people of Jeremiah’s time because they would have related to it. And Jesus speaks of the Kingdom of Heaven like a net because the Apostles would have understood. What does He use with you? Reading 1 JER 18:1-6 This word came to Jeremiah from the LORD: Rise up, be off to the potter’s house; there I will give you my message. I went down to the potter’s h...

Jn 11, 19-27 En aquel tiempo, muchos judíos habían ido a ver a Marta y a Ma¬ría para consolarlas por la muerte de su hermano Lázaro. Apenas oyó Marta que Jesús llegaba, salió a su encuentro; pero María se quedó en casa. Le dijo Marta a Jesús: “Señor, si hubieras estado aquí, no habría muerto mi hermano. Pero aún ahora estoy segura de que Dios te concederá cuanto le pidas”. Jesús le dijo: “Tu herma...

Jesus elevates our thinking and feeling to a place of faith when bogged down with our timelines we want Him to deliver what we need NOW!! 1 John 4:7-16 Beloved, let us love one another, because love is of God; everyone who loves is begotten by God and knows God. Whoever is without love does not know God, for God is love. In this way the love of God was revealed to us: God sent his only-begotten So...

Silence is a powerful tool against evil.. So is using God’s word. Jesus shows us patience and perseverance as ways to deal with one another. JER 14:17-22 Let my eyes stream with tears day and night, without rest, Over the great destruction which overwhelms the virgin daughter of my people, over her incurable wound. If I walk out into the field, look! those slain by the sword; If I enter the city,...

Loincloths are part of the story of obedience in today’s podcast. JER 13:1-11 The LORD said to me: Go buy yourself a linen loincloth; wear it on your loins, but do not put it in water. I bought the loincloth, as the LORD commanded, and put it on. A second time the word of the LORD came to me thus: Take the loincloth which you bought and are wearing, and go now to the Parath; there hide it in a cle...

What do you want, what do you really, really want? Solomon asks for wisdom. Jesus tells us the Kingdom of Heaven is like a treasure. 1 King 5, 7-12 The LORD appeared to Solomon in a dream at night. God said, “Ask something of me and I will give it to you.” Solomon answered: “O LORD, my God, you have made me, your servant, king to succeed my father David; but I am a mere youth, not knowing at all h...

Today we meditate on James who followed Jesus closely, and died for Him. Salome, the Mother of James and John asks Jesus for a seat foe them. Feast of Saint James, Apostle Reading 1 2 COR 4:7-15 Brothers and sisters: We hold this treasure in earthen vessels, that the surpassing power may be of God and not from us. We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained; perplexed, but not driven to des...

God is ready to give, to plant seeds in our garden. Are we ready to respond? Is He our Master? Who owns our focus and attention? Friday of the Sixteenth Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 399 Reading 1 JER 3:14-17 Return, rebellious children, says the LORD, for I am your Master; I will take you, one from a city, two from a clan, and bring you to Zion. I will appoint over you shepherds after my own...

Empty, broken cisterns are symbolic hollow places in our life that do not hold the grace of God but our own futile attempts at self fulfillment. Jer 2: 1-3, 7-8, 12:1 This word of the LORD came to me: Go, cry out this message for Jerusalem to hear! I remember the devotion of your youth, how you loved me as a bride, Following me in the desert, in a land unsown. Sacred to the LORD was Israel, the fi...

The readings today speak about seeking God with a full heart, about the joy of being New Creations once we choose to see life from a divine perspective. Mary Magdalene follows Jesus with passion and fullness of heart . 2 Cor 5:14-17 Brothers and sisters: The love of Christ impels us, once we have come to the conviction that one died for all; therefore, all have died. He indeed died for all, so tha...

Jesus stretches His hand to His disciples and invites them into the family through obedience. He is the shepherd that guides us. He brings us home. MI 7:14-15, 18-20 Shepherd your people with your staff, the flock of your inheritance, That dwells apart in a woodland, in the midst of Carmel. Let them feed in Bashan and Gilead, as in the days of old; As in the days when you came from the land of Egy...

Gather faithful ones before me, those who have made a covenant with me.  Let the hills hear your voice. Sometimes, we ask for a sign, because we are lose our way, but others ask to trap Jesus. MI 6:1-4, 6-8 Hear what the LORD says: Arise, present your plea before the mountains, and let the hills hear your voice! Hear, O mountains, the plea of the LORD, pay attention, O foundations of the eart...

Jesus tells us that He sows goodness and the devil sows evil in the world. We should not be surprised. And we can be patient that justice may take time, it may not be immediate. We can also take hope that the Holy Spirit intercedes for us from our very hearts. WIS 12:13, 16-19 There is no god besides you who have the care of all, that you need show you have not unjustly condemned. For your might i...

We can mold our hearts and guide the emotions that arise and want to keep us in a negative state. Instead we can use our will to transform what we feel. MI 2:1-5 Woe to those who plan iniquity, and work out evil on their couches; In the morning light they accomplish it when it lies within their power. They covet fields, and seize them; houses, and they take them; They cheat an owner of his house,...

IS 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 When Hezekiah was mortally ill, the prophet Isaiah, son of Amoz, came and said to him: “Thus says the LORD: Put your house in order, for you are about to die; you shall not recover.” Then Hezekiah turned his face to the wall and prayed to the LORD: “O LORD, remember how faithfully and wholeheartedly I conducted myself in your presence, doing what was pleasing to you!” And Hez...

My soul years for you Lord. Come to me all of you who are burdened. IS 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 The way of the just is smooth; the path of the just you make level. Yes, for your way and your judgments, O LORD, we look to you; Your name and your title are the desire of our souls. My soul yearns for you in the night, yes, my spirit within me keeps vigil for you; When your judgment dawns upon the earth, the...

IS 10:5-7, 13B-16 Thus says the LORD: Woe to Assyria! My rod in anger, my staff in wrath. Against an impious nation I send him, and against a people under my wrath I order him To seize plunder, carry off loot, and tread them down like the mud of the streets. But this is not what he intends, nor does he have this in mind; Rather, it is in his heart to destroy, to make an end of nations not a few. F...

Is 10, 5-7. 13-16 Esto dice el Señor: “¡Ay Asiria, bastón de mi ira, vara que mi furor maneja! Contra una nación impía voy a guiarte, contra un pueblo que experimenta mi cólera voy a mandarte, para que lo saquees y lo despojes y lo pisotees como el lodo de las calles. Pero Asiria no lo piensa así ni son éstos sus planes; su intención es arrasar y exterminar numerosas naciones, pues dice: ‘Con el p...

How do the Old Testament and New Testament readings connect? IS 7:1-9 In the days of Ahaz, king of Judah, son of Jotham, son of Uzziah, Rezin, king of Aram, and Pekah, king of Israel, son of Remaliah, went up to attack Jerusalem, but they were not able to conquer it. When word came to the house of David that Aram was encamped in Ephraim, the heart of the king and the heart of the people trembled,...

Cuando no reconocen a Jesus en las ciudades donde hace milagros, vemos que puede ser el Hijo de Dios mismo el que camina junto a nosotros y no lo reconocemos.  Mantengamonos alerta y tranquilos. Is 7, 1-9 Cuando Ajaz, hijo de Jotam, hijo de Ozías, reinaba en Judá, Rasón rey de Siria, y Pécaj, hijo de Remalías y rey de Israel, fueron a Jerusalén para atacarla, pero no lograron conquistarla. Cu...

Commands and instructions, detachment from our ways and a rant from God IS 1:10-17 Hear the word of the LORD, princes of Sodom! Listen to the instruction of our God, people of Gomorrah! What care I for the number of your sacrifices? says the LORD. I have had enough of whole-burnt rams and fat of fatlings; In the blood of calves, lambs and goats I find no pleasure. When you come in to visit me, who...

Bonus Sunday Connect

My Word shall not return to me void IS 55:10-11 Thus says the LORD: Just as from the heavens the rain and snow come down and do not return there till they have watered the earth, making it fertile and fruitful, giving seed to the one who sows and bread to the one who eats, so shall my word be that goes forth from my mouth; my word shall not return to me void, but shall do my will, achieving the en...

Primera lectura Is 6, 1-8 El año de la muerte del rey Ozías, vi al Señor, sentado sobre un trono muy alto y magnífico. La orla de su manto llenaba el templo. Había dos serafines junto a él, con seis alas cada uno: con un par se cubrían el rostro; con otro, se cubrían los pies, y con el otro, volaban. Y se gritaban el uno al otro: “Santo, santo, santo es el Señor, Dios de los ejércitos; su gloria l...