Preparing with Joy for the Paschal Feast XII

Preparing with Joy for the Paschal Feast

Part XII of XV

Tuesday 27 March 2018

Holy Tuesday

The Gifts of Wisdom

Proverbs 8:1-8, 19-21; 9:4b-6

Does not wisdom call, and does not understanding raise her voice?  On the heights, beside the way, at the crossroads she takes her stand; beside the gates in front of the town, at the entrance of the portals she cries out: "To you, O people, I call, and my cry is to all that live.  O simple ones, learn prudence; acquire intelligence, you who lack it.  Hear, for I will speak noble things, and from my lips will come what is right; for my mouth will utter truth; wickedness is an abomination to my lips.  All the words of my mouth are righteous; there is nothing twisted or crooked in them.  "My fruit is better than gold, even fine gold, and my yield than choice silver.  I walk in the way of righteousness, along the paths of justice, endowing with wealth those who love me, and filling their treasuries."  To those without sense she says, "Come, eat of my bread and drink of the wine I have mixed.  Lay aside immaturity, and live, and walk in the way of insight."

The Rev’d Timothy Alleman

Rector

The Church of the Holy Cross