In the first reading today we hear of the classic boredom of one who seems stuck in a rut! "Look around! Nothing ever changes! The sun rises and goes down the same way every day! The rivers run to the sea but do not seem to ever fill it up! Speaking really doesn't get a message across! Seeing and hearing doesn't really satisfy! What was, will be! There is nothing new under the sun!" I think this person was having a "bad day!"
But maybe not! Maybe he was just summarizing the condition of the world before Jesus! Everything was stuck in a vicious circles the led to nowhere! That is precisely why Jesus, Messiah and Savior was needed and was sent. HE WOULD BE THE ONE NEW THING! who would MAKE EVERYTHING DIFFERENT!
In the gospel passage we see Herod the tetrarch – the one who put John the Baptist to death and who would put Jesus to death – also searching for something REALLY NEW, DIFFERENT AND AUTHORITATIVE enough
to change the entire system – although he was threatened personally by one with such power! He knew there was something "different" about Jesus – and the "wanted to see him!" to find out more!
But whereas Herod's investigation of Jesus led to a tragic end; may our investigation of Jesus today – our listening to him and seeing him in this Eucharistic Celebration – be as the sun rising on us in a newer and different way; the river of his blessings running into us and filling us up exactly where we need to be filled up – and may be believe that today everything can be new and different because JESUS IS OUR MESSIAH AND SAVIOR! (In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge!)
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