One of the blessings offered to humanity is the
ability to live life with passion for our vocation. The texts today from the
Roman Catholic Lectionary place us in the tension between fear of the interruption
of the life giving work we do and the deep consolation and joy in the surrender
of our passion and life force to the One, like a Son of Man, coming on a cloud
who restores joy and peacefulness to us as to Daniel after dreams of terrible
beasts in the seventh chapter of the Book of Daniel. Rev. Dr. Eugen J. Pentiuc
comments on a Greek Orthodox teaching about the Aramaic phrase Bar 'ěnoš
"son of man". This phrase in Jewish and Christian eschatological understanding
refers to the Messiah. Dr Pentiuc suggests rendering the phrase as "son of
weakness" or "the weak one." This contradiction of the power of
the earlier vision is in harmony with Jesus humanity and the suffering servant
image in Isaiah. Modern day anxiety, often presented to us in dreams and flashes
of that terror that things might go terribly wrong is the reflection from SusanNaatz of Creighton University. The awakening to peace through re connection of
the signs of the Presence in our lives is the advice given by Jesus today in
the Gospel from Luke. Don Schwager comments that “the Lord does give us signs,
not only to "wake us up" as a warning, but also to "rouse our
spirits" to be ever ready and eager to see his kingdom come in all its
power and glory”. Our passion in our vocation is that Spirit roused by Love to
serve.
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