The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary present an opportunity to reflect on the examples of people living an authentic relationship with God in the community around us. Friar Jude Winkler sets the stage for the words of the Prophet Zephaniah who reviews the status of the role of God in the lives of the rebellious leadership of the people in the tyrannical city of Jerusalem. He voices the entreaty of God to the remnant of believers who have dispersed throughout the civilized world to return and take refuge as a humble and lowly people who have their actions against God forgiven. The lowly, humble and those aware of the gap between their action and the will of God are those poor who are heard by the Lord as praised in the words of the psalmist. In the Gospel of Matthew, Jesus challenges us to see those on the journey of reconciliation with God in the rebellious, difficult, argumentative or those aware and humbled by their separation from intimacy with the Divine. These are the remnant who are struggling to return and who will lead us to change our minds and believe.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment