In the Roman Catholic Lectionary Luke presents Jesus response to the criticism of the religious authorities that he was welcoming sinners and eating with them. The parables He tells are familiar but I find myself, in the light of reading Richard Rohr’s “The Naked Now”, pausing to reflect on the hidden or non dual experience that may be represented here.
‘Which one of you, having a hundred sheep and losing one of them, does not leave the ninety-nine in the wilderness and go after the one that is lost until he finds it?
The sheep, that Jesus refers to, belong to the searcher. The religious authorities were not open to having the sinners belong to the dinner gathering. The message of belonging was difficult for those who criticized Jesus. They probably believed that the owner would search for the lost sheep. The idea that Jesus was looking at the Pharisees as the lost sheep comes to mind. They would see themselves as being like Jesus, believers. Perhaps Jesus is in search of them. Those who cast others out are perhaps in need of being found and returned to the flock?
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