The texts from the Roman Catholic Lectionary today are a contrast in misery and peace. The Gospel of Matthew tells of Jesus invitation to peace which comes from learning from Him by living as He lives. This peace is not the absence of war but is more the opposite of anxiety and misery that the psalmist and Isaiah describe in the lives of the Hebrew people as a result of one of the abandonments of the Covenant. We are still continually abandoning the Covenant; we continue to know the anxiety of no direction or certainty. We are daily aware of the suffering around us. We are also daily invited to allow the indwelling Spirit to accept the “yoke” which is the sign of the intimate relationship with the Divine wherein the soul finds the only peace.
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