Parables and Fables for Modern Man

includes index and biblioraphy

In the Potter`s Shop .................... 9 The Principle and Foundation of Jeremiah ....... 9 Lectio of Jeremiah 18:1-12 ................. 10 Meditatio: The Message of Jeremiah ........... 13 Contemplatio ......................... 16 Homily: Collaborators with God ............. 19 The Broken Jug. ...................... 22 The Path of Purification of the Heart. .......... 22 The Broken Jug ....................... 23 Lectio of Jeremiah 19:1-15 ................. 24 Five Messages........................ 26 "Purify me, O Lord" .................... 30 Sin: Betrayal of the Covenant .............. 32 The Linen Loincloth .................... 32 Lectio of Jeremiah 13:1-11 ................. 34 The Teaching on the Covenant .............. 35 Toward Contemplatio .................... 40 The Wine-jar ........................ 42 The Wine-jar. ........................ 42 Lectio of Jeremiah 13:12-14. ................ 43 Meditatio on God`s Wrath. ................ 45 Light and Darkness: Jeremiah 13:15-17......... 48 Meditatio on the Weeping of Jeremiah and of Jesus . . 49 The Scarecrows: Jeremiah 10:1-16 ............ 50 Homily: Contemplating the Face of Jesus ....... 53 The Memory of the Vocation .............. 56 The Image of Jeremiah .................. 56 Lectio of Jeremiah 1:4-19 ................. 58 A Triple Meditatio ..................... 61 Contemplatio ........................ 66 The Man of the Word .................. 68 Jeremiah and the Word .................. 68 Meditatio: I and the Word. ................ 71 Lectio and Effort .................... 72 Lectio and Memory .................. 74 Lectio and Feelings .................. 76 Lectio as a Gift and Letting Go............ 78 Prayer. ........................... 78 A Weak Voice ....................... 80 Five Confessions of Jeremiah .............. 80 The Meek Lamb Jeremiah 11:18-23) .......... 82 The Deceitful Brook (Jeremiah 15:10-21) ........ 84 Why to Me? (Jeremiah 17:14-18). ............ 88 A Very Great Suffering (Jeremiah 18:18-23) ...... 89 "O lord, you have enticed me" (Jeremiah 20:7-18). . 91 Meditatio: The Weakness of the Word.......... 94 Homily: The Power of Intercession of the Church... 97 The Solitude of the Prophet .............. 100 The Prophet in a Deaf Society .............. 100 Jeremiah: A Man Alone.................. 102 The Apostolic Solitude of Madeleine Delbrel ..... 104 The Believer in the Secularized Society......... Ill

V2. 37 Parables Bearing on Religious Values.