Opening Our Souls 11102011

AND PASSING INTO HOLY SOULSFROM AGE TO AGE SHE PRODUCES FRIENDS OF GOD PROPHETS WISDOM 7:27 IF YOU GO TO MILAN in northern Italy You probably head first to the Duomo The massive Gothic Cathedral in the center After you tour it and walk amid the spires on its roof You might sit on the piazza steps eating gelato with scores of others Then you might descend to the subway, ready for another adventure As you hurry through the hallway to catch a train You’ll pass a locked door with a small window If you look You’ll see mounds of dirt and stones But if you return to the church You can visit that underground space by going down some steps in the back Amid the excavations is an octagonal-darkness Alone Contemplate the font where St. Ambrose washed St. Augustine in the living waters of baptism Then you can return to the bustling Brightness, centuries later But still held in the e3mbrace of the same Wisdom they sought Found Lord, open my soul to your wisdom and truth Readings and Gospel Wisdom 7:22, 8:1 * Psalm 119:89-91, 130, 135, 175 Luke 17:20-25