The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary
bring the intense impact of the Word of God to our attention. Friar JudeWinkler explains the sense of the ancient people that the Word of God is the
real and effective action of God. The text from the letter to the Hebrews opens
with the Word containing the complete knowledge and understanding of God’s creatures.
This may be very disconcerting to us the sinful, but the Word made flesh is the
high priest, Who calls to us from human experience to have the boldness to
approach the throne of Grace. The psalmist praises the perfect Law of God which
may without the action of Jesus seem unapproachable to our spirit. The Gospel
of Mark recounts how Jesus action to call the separated back to God is directed
to the most outcast and unclean. Jesus invites the hated tax collector to
follow Him. Levi, we believe, becomes the Evangelist Matthew, who proclaims the
truth to the people that the Word is the Kingdom of God in our midst. Those
thought by human tradition and custom to be most unworthy and those who have
isolated themselves from intimacy with God are the ones to whom Jesus directs
the power and intimacy of the Word of Love.
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