The nature of our relationship to God is presented
for consideration through the texts of the Roman Catholic Lectionary today. The
prophet Isaiah warns the leaders of Israel that their decisions and actions are
not in accord with the will of God. The consequence of their behaviour is
compared to the fate of Sodom and Gomorrah. Friar Jude Winkler comments that
the call of the Prophet Isaiah for the evil leaders to turn back to care for
the people of Israel and to restore social justice in the land is the will of
God. We choose to turn away from God and thereby deprive ourselves of the grace
of our communion with God which leads us into loneliness and self satisfaction
and the denial of our need for God. The psalmist continues the theme of
examination of our lives and our associations so that we might see the
decisions we make as movements toward or away from being thankful to God for
our life. In this thanksgiving is the seed of the desire to move toward the
Divine. The Gospel from Matthew describes Jesus using Jewish exaggeration technique
to teach about the life of humility through which our desire to be seen as a
holy and observant believer is refocused on thoughts and actions which consider
the other first.
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