Wednesday, May 11, 2016

May 11 - Homily for Today

+ Our readings today are quite spectacular both in their drama and in their content: Paul is addressing the newly ordained priests of Ephesus for the last time, and Jesus asks his Father to consecrate his apostles and all priests in the truth. This is astounding actually: it is now possible to be absolutely sure concerning the essence and true nature of those things that have to do with the salvation of the human race: which is virtually everything; just as Jesus was meant to be the clearing house for all truth because he is the truth-made-flesh – so too his Mystical Body, beginning with those members who reside with Christ as Head: they would be the vendors and protectors of Truth in the world.

It would therefore behoove the world to take notice of what the true teaching authority of the Church is proposing, especially in the generic, bland, sterile, secular society that is being created before our very eyes. Now while such truth can always be unraveled more and more, the truth about anything cannot change: especially who Jesus is and what he teaches.

St. Paul warns the Ephesian priests to beware of those who will come to destroy the truth (even members from their own communities), very much like the efforts to destroy Jesus himself – but especially now that Jesus reigns as victor over any confronting power, so too the Ephesians will reign victorious if they focus on the Gospel as given – and the entire remaining Scriptures as setting and application of this Divine communication for our welfare.

As we celebrate World Communications Week in the Church we pray for a better and deeper understanding of the fact that the word of the Lord is truth, and that if we have been ordained, and baptized we have been consecrated with differing degrees of this truth – but not for our own private benefit, but for the gathering and salvation of all the world.


God speaks only truth, so that our feet may be guided safely to him!

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