The texts today from the Roman Catholic Lectionary
point to the transformation which comes from the Word of God. Friar JudeWinkler comments on the passage from the third section of the Book of the
Prophet Isaiah in which the desolation and destruction in Jerusalem experienced
by the returning exiles from Babylon is countered by the promise in the Word of
God of an entirely new creation of heaven and earth and the full restoration of
life within the Holy City. The psalm today is titled to indicate thanksgiving
to God for recovery from an incurable disease. The Gospel of John relates the
healing of the son of a royal official who lay ill in Capernaum by Jesus Word
proclaiming that it is done. Our Christian experience of the Word is expressed
in the beginning of John’s Gospel. The Word is made flesh and dwells among us.
This Presence of the Word in Eucharist and our desire to model Mary and declare
in faith that the Will of God be accomplished though our lives is the
transformation which begins the new heaven and the new earth promised through
the message of Isaiah.
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