Maureena’s Torah Reflections
Sukkot Shabbat Chol ha-Moed. Exodus 33:12-34:26
Moses said to the LORD, “See, you say to me, ‘Bring up this people,’ but you have not let me know whom you will send with me” …And (God) said, “My presence will go with you.” (Ex. 33:12,14).
“My Presence Will Go With You.”
Psalm 139:
Where shall I go from your Spirit?
Or where shall I flee from your presence? (Ps. 139:7).
Wherever I go, “You are there” (Ps. 139:8).
I come to the end, and you are “still with me” (Ps. 139:18).
Rabindranath Tagore 56
THUS IT IS that thy joy in me is so full.
Thus it is that thou hast come down to me. O thou lord of all heavens, where would be thy love if I were not?
Thou hast taken me as thy partner of all this wealth. In my heart is the endless play of thy delight. In my life thy will is ever taking shape.
And for this, thou who art the King of kings hast decked thyself in beauty to captivate my heart. And for this thy love loses itself in the love of thy lover, and there art thou seen in the perfect union of two.
Prepared by Prof. Sr. Maureena Frits nds
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“Since the spiritual patrimony common to Christians and Jews is thus so great, this sacred synod wants to foster and recommend that mutual understanding and respect which is the fruit, above all, of biblical and theological studies.”
Declaration on the Relation of the Church to Non-Christian Religions: Nostra Aetate, No. 4