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8/3/2008 Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time
Lillia Langreck, SSND |
Feast of the Transfiguration
This week we celebrate the feast of the Transfiguration. It was on this mount that Jesus' disciples experienced the Tabor light — the light of God shining through in all its glory. They must have realized that it was the love of our compassionate God resplendent in the person of Jesus. How much Jesus longed for the apostles and all peoples to experience this God of love. This week we also the commemorate with deep sadness, another light, the blinding light and burning flames of the bombs of Nagasaki and Hiroshima. This is our prayer:
Transfiguration
August 6, 1945
Bombs falling
Hiroshima burning
Death — Destruction —
A city in flames disappears
In one vast mushroom cloud!
So much pain
So much agony
So much devastation
For those left behind!
Yahweh, it was our bombs
Our air force
Our heinous act
Which caused so much pain!
I am truly sorry!
O God, how my heart hurts
And it hurts today
That in the act remembered
Some say, “It was good!”
O God, will we never learn?
Fill my heart with love
That overflows our world.
Let me cradle Mother Earth
In my arms
And hold her close to my heart
Let your love flow through me
Through Mother Earth
Fill each person with
Wisdom
Love
Give us eyes to see
And hearts open to love
O God, I recall the Mount of Tabor
And your love shining through.
Let this be a Tabor moment
Let your love and light shine through us.
Transform us, God,
So that Hiroshima, Nagasaki
Never happens again!
Fill our world, fill our hearts,
With your great longing for peace
Make us all compassionate lovers
So that someday soon
ALL WARS WILL CEASE!
From the book Sparks from the Sacred Fire by Lillia Langreck, SSND