Mother Mary

  • Day 12: The Chariot That Would Have Been Envious

    ByJobin

    🔥 Seeking Theosis | Day 12 of the Shoonoyo Fast

    The Chariot That Would Have Been Envious

    Ezekiel was far from Jerusalem when the heavens opened. In exile beside the river Chebar, he saw the extraordinary vision of the heavenly chariot: living creatures, wheels within wheels, fire and a throne above them.

    The vision was so overwhelming that Ezekiel fell on his face.

    Yet the Syriac Fathers make an astonishing comparison:

    “The chariot conveyed the likeness of His glory, whereas she carried the reality of His majesty!”

    The One whom the cherubim carried with trembling was carried upon the knees of the Virgin. The glory Ezekiel could scarcely describe became a Child whom human hands could hold.

    And there is another beautiful message hidden in Ezekiel’s vision. The throne has wheels. God goes where His people go.

    Even in exile. Even far from home. Even where we never expected to find Him.

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  • Day 11: The Palace, and the Girl Who Said She Had No Palace

    ByJobin

    Day 11 of the Shoonoyo Fast

    The Palace, and the Girl Who Said She Had No Palace

    What makes a palace a palace?

    Not its size, beauty or wealth. A palace matters because the king lives there.

    St Ephrem calls the Blessed Virgin a royal palace for precisely this reason:

    “She is a royal palace, because of You, O Royal Son.”

    Yet in a beautiful Syriac dialogue with the Magi, Mary looks at the poverty of her home and wonders how they could possibly have come there looking for a king. There is no royal treasure, no splendour, nothing regal to see.

    The Magi know what she cannot yet see.

    The house may be poor. The King is not.

    Perhaps that is something we need to hear on Day 11 of the fast. We can look at our own spiritual lives and see only what is unfinished, distracted and ordinary.

    But God has never needed grandeur before He comes to dwell.

    The King chooses the address. His presence makes the palace.

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    Day 7 – Mary in the Upper Room

    ByJobin

    Day 7 of the Ascension to Pentecost series is live.
    Today we are sitting with Mary in the Upper Room. Acts 1:14 names her explicitly and separately, and Jacob of Serugh helps us understand why.
    At the Annunciation, the Spirit came to her alone. In the Upper Room, she prays that He might come to all.
    She is not a bystander at Pentecost. She is its intercessory heart.
    Two days until Pentecost. The fire is very close now.