Saint Patrick
Speaker Notes Saint Patrick
John 12:20-33
20 Now there were some Greeks among those who went up to worship at the festival. 21 They came to Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, with a request. “Sir,” they said, “we would like to see Jesus.” 22 Philip went to tell Andrew; Andrew and Philip in turn told Jesus.
23 Jesus replied, “The hour has come for the Son of Man to be glorified. 24 Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds. 25 Anyone who loves their life will lose it, while anyone who hates their life in this world will keep it for eternal life. 26 Whoever serves me must follow me; and where I am, my servant also will be. My Father will honor the one who serves me.
27 “Now my soul is troubled, and what shall I say? ‘Father, save me from this hour’? No, it was for this very reason I came to this hour. 28 Father, glorify your name!”
Then a voice came from heaven, “I have glorified it, and will glorify it again.” 29 The crowd that was there and heard it said it had thundered; others said an angel had spoken to him.
30 Jesus said, “This voice was for your benefit, not mine. 31 Now is the time for judgment on this world; now the prince of this world will be driven out. 32 And I, when I am lifted up from the earth, will draw all people to myself.” 33 He said this to show the kind of death he was going to die.
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“How the Irish Saved Civilization” by Thomas Cahill (1995)
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“Touch the Wounds: On Suffering, Trust, and Transformation” by Tomáš Halík (2013):
I am neither All-knowing nor All-seeing, and so I cannot pronounce final and infallible judgments about others and their personal beliefs because I cannot see into their hearts or catch a glimpse of the final end and goal of their journey. No one can rid me of the hope that "the God of the others" is, in the final analysis "my God,” because the God I believe in is also the God of those who do not know the name by which I call God.
But in the same breath I add and declare: for me there is no other path or other gate to God than that which is opened by a wounded hand and pierced heart. I am unable to exclaim, "My Lord and my God" until I see the wound that pierced the heart. If credere is derived from "cor dare" (giving one's heart), then my heart and my faith belong only to the God that has wounds to show.
My faith is at one with my love, and no one can rid me of my love for the Crucified, which is my response to his love for me: Can anything cut me off from the love of Christ?* Can anything cut me off from that love whose proof of identity is its wounds?' I am incapable of uttering the words "my God" unless I see the wounds!
However radiant a religious vision might be, if it lacks the "scars left by the nails" I would be hard pressed, in spite of my goodwill, to rid myself of my misgivings that it might be an illusion, or a projection of my own desires, or even the Antichrist. My God is a wounded God.
Father Tim Clayton biography Link https://www.trinitynorthshore.org/team