10/26/10 Cblog WE MUST HELP the MUSTARD SEED GROW, NOURISH IT ; MONASTERY "Jesus use examples of kingdom...as something that grows..yeast helps dough to rise...from within..13 yrs ago..was called to huntingtonhospital in pasadena...married this couple a year prior..now she had given birth to premature twins..could hold in each hand..baptized w/ eyedropper..they both survived..they named the little one after me..saw the 2 yesterday..they looked like sumo wrestlers..could play football for the 49ers...powe of life within us..but we have to nourish the people..nourish ourslvs...others...help mustard seed grow..transformed to become christ like..not easy..have to move from surface of life to deep reality within us..give up self-willed things..to be loving..must be humble, not selfish..due to orig sin..the false self..pride..that must die ..so the real life can grow...keep working at it...be transformed..something beautiful for god..pray we will grow..then the church grows..as each of us grows...paul makes analogy to human body..if one sinner sins..effects body of Christ.."
Eph 5:21-33 or Eph 5:2a, 25-32 Brothers and sisters: Be subordinate to one another out of reverence for Christ Wives should be subordinate to their husbands as to the Lord For the husband is head of his wife just as Christ is head of the Church he himself the savior of the Body. As the Church is subordinate to Christ, so wives should be subordinate to their husbands in everything. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the Church and handed himself over for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word, that he might present to himself the Church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the Church because we are members of his Body. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother
He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the Church because we are members of his Body. For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the Church In any case, each one of you should love his wife as himself, and the wife should respect her husband. or Brothers and sisters: Live in love, as Christ loved us. Husbands, love your wives, even as Christ loved the church and handed himself over for her to sanctify her, cleansing her by the bath of water with the word, that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body
ter with the word, that he might present to himself the church in splendor, without spot or wrinkle or any such thing, that she might be holy and without blemish. So also husbands should love their wives as their own bodies. He who loves his wife loves himself. For no one hates his own flesh but rather nourishes and cherishes it, even as Christ does the church, because we are members of his body For this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh This is a great mystery, but I speak in reference to Christ and the church. P R. (1a) Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Blessed are you who fear the LORD, who walk in his ways! For you shall eat the fruit of your handiwork; blessed shall you be, and favored. R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Your wife shall be like a fruitful vine in the recesses of your home; Your children like olive plants around your table R. Blessed are those who fear the Lord. Behold, thus is the man blessed who fears the LORD. The LORD bless you from Zion:
ose who fear the Lord. Jesus said, “What is the Kingdom of God like? To what can I compare it? It is like a mustard seed that a man took and planted in the garden. When it was fully grown, it became a large bush and the birds of the sky dwelt in its branches.” Again he said, “To what shall I compare the Kingdom of God? It is like yeast that a woman took and mixed in with three measures of wheat flour until the whole batch of dough was leavened.”
