The Gospel for today's Corpus Christi told of how Jesus told the disciples to give the hungry crowds something to eat themselves. No purchased food would satisfy, only the gifts of their own substance would suffice. One of the most wonderful images of the Christ is that of the mother pelican feeding her young by tearing at her own flesh.
The earth feeds us from her own flesh.
The keeper and I were thinking about that ever so tender pelican image...and in particular the recent newsclips that showed us the horrifying images of pelicans in the Gulf all covered with oil and mud, grounded in greasy muck. What an image! Pelican! Earth! Our mother, avian, christic, who gives her flesh so we might eat and be satisfied, is trapped in our greedy muck.
We have much to ponder and change.
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