[Propertalk] READINGS for the FIFTH SUNDAY of EASTER

[Ann Fontaine]

Meditation One  from

http://www.edgeofenclosure.org/mysticaljourney/easter5b.html



"engrafted to divinity"


And you, high eternal Trinity,

acted as if you were drunk with love,

infatuated with your creature.

When you saw that this tree could bear no fruit

but the fruit of death

because it was cut off from you who are life,

you came to its rescue

with the same love

with which you had created it:

you engrafted your divinity

into the dead tree of our humanity.

O sweet tender engrafting!

You, sweetness itself,

stooped to join yourself

with our bitterness.
      - Catherine of Siena (d.1380)


The Prayers of Catherine of Siena, ed. Suzanne Noffke

“engrafted to neighbors”

You, then, are my workers.  You have come from me, the supreme eternal  
gardener, and I have engrafted you onto the vine by making myself one  
with you.
   Keep in mind that each of you has your own vineyard.  But everyone  
is joined to the neighbors’ vineyards without any dividing lines.   
They are so joined together, in fact, that you cannot do good or evil  
for yourself without doing the same for your neighbors.

–Catherine of Siena, Dialogue, The Vines That Are Tended by the Divine  
Gardener  (quoted from Mystics Visionaries and Prophets, Shawn  
Madigan, CSJ, editor)




> GOSPEL:  John 15: 1 - 8   (all)
>
> John 15:1 (NRSV) "I am the true vine, and my Father is the  
> vinegrower. 2 He removes every branch in me that bears no fruit.  
> Every branch that bears fruit he prunes to make it bear more fruit.  
> 3 You have already been cleansed by the word that I have spoken to  
> you. 4 Abide in me as I abide in you. Just as the branch cannot bear  
> fruit by itself unless it abides in the vine, neither can you unless  
> you abide in me. 5 I am the vine, you are the branches. Those who  
> abide in me and I in them bear much fruit, because apart from me you  
> can do nothing. 6 Whoever does not abide in me is thrown away like a  
> branch and withers; such branches are gathered, thrown into the  
> fire, and burned. 7 If you abide in me, and my words abide in you,  
> ask for whatever you wish, and it will be done for you. 8 My Father  
> is glorified by this, that you bear much fruit and become my  
> disciples.
>



Ann Fontaine c3
Lander, Wyoming


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