*Sacred Scripture* Return of the Dove to the Ark – Millais
June 15
This artwork by J. Millais shows two excited girls holding the dove that has returned to Noah’s ark, signaling the end of the Great Deluge by bringing a green leaf.
Gn 8:5-12
5The waters continued to diminish until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains appeared.
6At the end of forty days Noah opened the hatch of the ark that he had made,
7* and he released a raven. It flew back and forth until the waters dried off from the earth.
8Then he released a dove, to see if the waters had lessened on the earth.
9But the dove could find no place to perch, and it returned to him in the ark, for there was water over all the earth. Putting out his hand, he caught the dove and drew it back to him inside the ark.
10He waited yet seven days more and again released the dove from the ark.
11In the evening the dove came back to him, and there in its bill was a plucked-off olive leaf! So Noah knew that the waters had diminished on the earth.
12He waited yet another seven days and then released the dove; but this time it did not come back.
https://bible.usccb.org/bible/genesis/8
Saying the holy name of Jesus is the simplest way of praying always.
1-A prayer from Raphael the Archangel:
*While you are on this earth, you must praise the Lord God and give him thanks.
2-A prayer from Tobit and Tobias:
*They began to sing hymns of praise, giving thanks for all the mighty deeds God had done while his angel Raphael had been with them.
3-A simple Jesus prayer:
*Lord, Lord, Jesus Christ…Son of God…have mercy on me…Be kind to others…Work Hard…Be joyful.
4-Another prayer:
*When all that God asks of us is to be quiet and keep ourselves at peace-attentive to the secret work He is beginning in our souls-Be Empty and See That I Am God.
And the Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us, and we saw his glory, the glory as of the Father’s only Son, full of grace and truth.
From his fullness we have all received, grace in place of grace.
Jn 1:14,16