Our
first reading today reminds us that Jesus is the fullness of all
creation, and that he is therefore to be held in preeminence: he is the perfect
form of creation and the first-born of the dead in the new creation that is to
come. We are privileged to count ourselves a part of that transformed creation
and among the members of the redeemed, because of what Jesus did on that Friday
afternoon in Calvary so long ago.
How we plug ourselves into
this is by our faith response to
God’s loving initiative: and this faith can present itself in ever new
manifestations and depths: this has to do with Jesus’ parable of the patched
cloak and the wine-skins. We must be able
to adapt ourselves to the newer presentations of faith, while hanging on to the
essence of what they looked like in the past. It is possible to do both, or
Jesus wouldn’t have told us to do it.
In any event today we are
called to follow Jesus the light of the world: so that we may bask in the
warmth of his love, be assured of the correctness of the path that we are on,
and be able to look forward to the life of heaven that is promised at the end
of the path!
Come
with joy into the presence of the Lord!
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