Desert Reflections: God visits his people

Resurrection of the Widow’s son from Nain, altar panel by Lucas Cranach the Younger, c. 1569, in the Stadtkirche Wittenberg

Those who had witnessed Jesus raising the widow’s son in today’s gospel conclude that “God has visited his people.” Fr Jim points out that God is always visiting his people – no less now that in the time of Jesus or Moses or Abraham.  How, Fr Jim wonders, will we respond to God’s visit to us today?

Today’s Readings

A bishop must be irreproachable, married only once, temperate, self-controlled, decent, hospitable, able to teach, not a drunkard, not aggressive, but gentle, not contentious, not a lover of money.
1 TM 3:1-13

“God has visited his people.”
LK 7:11-17