+ Timely and challenging readings for today’s mass.
We hear the “woe” Jesus speaks
to the Pharisees and the scholars of the law whenever we forget that we “belong
to Christ.”
That belonging makes us want
to crucify our fleshly understanding and “follow the Spirit.”
The evidence of our belonging
to Christ is our love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity,
faithfulness, gentleness and self-control.
If the channels for
experiencing deeply these fruits of the Spirit are not clean, pure and
completely open – then we are missing out on so much consolation, energy and
joy.
The Sacrament of
Reconciliation is there for us to have Christ Himself roto-root out all the rot
in our souls, our minds and our hearts – and to flush us through with the
amazing flood of sanctifying – life-giving waters of grace and peace.
May we avail ourselves of this
marvelous aid to our life of total peace and commitment to sharing that same
peace with others. As someone’s mom once said: you can’t give what you don’t
have. May we be poised as possible to give the people the Lord puts directly in
our path all we can possibly give them – from lived experience of tenderness,
mercy and forgiveness!
The Lord watches over the way
of the just, but the way of the wicked vanishes. May we just be just today!
Amen.
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