Fighting the Famine

The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary relate to the desire of the Divine to remove the famine in intimacy between people and God. Joseph encounters the brothers who have sold him into Egypt when they are seeking grain to combat the famine in Canaan. The text suggests that Joseph has the desire to rush to identify himself to them. The better path is to wait and allow the full opportunity for the fruit of powerful forgiveness, reunion and reconciliation to take place. The psalmist understands that the great fear is the famine of separation from God. The psalm praises the steadfast love of God which is the Name that is to be spread to the ends of the earth. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus calls by name those who are going to knock down the barriers of previous actions and attitudes of mortality and death and reunite with the lost from the tribes of Israel.