Year A - Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time

Twenty-Second Sunday in Ordinary Time - Year A

Jeremiah 20, 7 - 9

Psalm 62

Romans 12, 1 - 2

Matthew 16, 21 - 27

 

To go further 

Details 

-The prophet Jeremiah, animated by the Word of God, in incapble to blow off the candles on a birthday cake (dragons have the same problem by the way ...)

- His position is stretched forward, ears and body. He's resting on his hands. The hand of God, in the Bible, means the action, the relationship, the expression. The hand of God expresses the movement of the soul (the joy, the distress, the oath, the blessing, the prayer, the adoration). Here, the prophet is resting on all of that.

- The green rabbit, on the left, is surprised by the result.

- As for the yellow one, he's dubious. 

Questions 

- God's ways and men's ways are not the same. If the birthday rite is to blow out candles (by the way, what meaning does it really hold ? Who has the answer ?) the christening rite is to receive and transmit the fire. 

- Who has already tried to put on hold an inner fire coming from God ? On which occasion ? Did I succeed ? Yes ? No ? Why ?