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Exodus 3.1-6a

Moses was keeping the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led his flock beyond the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. There the angel of the Lord appeared to him in a flame of fire out of a bush; he looked, and the bush was blazing, yet it was not consumed. Then Moses said, ‘I must turn aside and look at this great sight, and see why the bush is not burned up.’ When the Lord saw that he had turned aside to see, God called to him out of the bush, ‘Moses, Moses!’ And he said, ‘Here I am.’ Then he said, ‘Come no closer! Remove the sandals from your feet, for the place on which you are standing is holy ground.’ He said further, ‘I am the God of your father, the God of Abraham, the God of Isaac, and the God of Jacob.’

For reflection and prayer today - A Song of Ephrem the Syrian

1    Behold: Fire and Spirit in the womb that bore you:  ♦

Behold: Fire and Spirit in the river where you were baptized.

2    Fire and Spirit in our baptism:  ♦

In the Bread and the Cup, Fire and Holy Spirit.

3    In your Bread is hidden a Spirit not to be eaten,  ♦

In your Wine dwells a Fire not to be drunk.

4    Spirit in your Bread, Fire in your Wine,  ♦

A wonder set apart, yet received by our lips.

5    How wonderful your footsteps, walking on the waters!  ♦

You subdued the great sea beneath your feet.

6    Yet to a little stream you subjected your head,  ♦

Bending down to be baptized in it.

7    The stream was like John who performed the baptism in it,  ♦

In their smallness each an image of the other.

8    To the stream so little, to the servant so weak,  ♦

The Lord of them both subjected himself.

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