Luke III

 

Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and begin not to say within yourselves, We have Abraham to our father: for I say unto you, That God is able  of these stones to raise up children unto Abraham.

Endeavour

 

The other side of the argument was equally trenchant. As Edmund Burke put it in the Commons, few could have envisaged the human miracle that had happened in North America in little more than a century. He asked his fellow MPs to imagine themselves transported to the year 1700. Now, look westwards, across the Atlantic:

There is America -- which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men an uncouth manners; yet shall, before you taste death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world. Whatever England has been growing to by a progressive increase of improvement, brought in by varieties of people, by succession of civilizing conquests and civilizing settlements in a series of seventeen hundred years you shall see as much added to her by America in the course of a single life.

"Endeavour" by Peter Moore (page 282)
Garrard, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2018

Abraham, John Paul II & The One

Abraham, the One who entered the history of man,

wants, through you, only to unveil this mystery

hidden from the foundation of the world

a mystery older than the world!

If today we go to these places

whence, long ago, Abraham set out,

where he heard the Voice, where the promise was fulfilled,

we do so in order to stand at the threshold

to go back to the beginning of the Covenant.

Poetic Meditation taken from

John Paul II, "Rise, Let Us Be On Our Way"
Warner Books, 2004

Translated by Walter Ziemba

Extract, Page 212

Abraham & The Most Holy Trinity

So he lifted his eyes and looked

and  behold

three men were standing by him;

and  when he saw them

he ran from the tent door to meet them,

and  bowed himself to the ground.

And said, "My Lord, if I have now 

found favor in Your sight,

do not pass on by Your servant...

"Please let a little water be brought

and  wash your feet

and  rest yourselves under the tree.

"And  I will bring a morsel of bread

that you may refresh your hearts.

After that You may pass by

inasmuch as You have come to Your servant."

They said, "Do as you have said."