Dear Friends,
As we thought about Jesus taking Simon’s mother-in-law by the hand and lifting her up on Sunday, and as we saw all those people – children, teenagers, and adults – lifting each other up, I was reminded of the words attributed to St Therese of Avila (and the beautiful song that our choir sing).
Christ has no body but yours,
no hands, no feet on earth but yours.
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Yours are the feet with which he walks to do good.
Yours are the hands, with which he blesses all the world.
Yours are the hands, yours are the feet,
yours are the eyes, you are his body.
Christ has no body now but yours,
no hands, no feet on earth but yours.
Yours are the eyes with which he looks
compassion on this world.
Christ has no body now on earth but yours.
Can I remind you – if you haven’t had a chance – to text me (0400 010 144) your response to the question – “How would you like to see CBC sharing God’s love and justice in words and actions in 2024?” – remembering that this is the work of all of our hands!
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Next week we will list your ideas in this box in the bulletin. (Hopefully, we will have remembered to update the QR code.) Remember what they say, “Many hands make light work!” Perhaps we could say, “Many hands make light shine!”
Yours are the hands with which he blesses all the world!