+ We have marvelous yet simple readings today for mass. They speak of the veritable
and real partnership with Christ that we each have, thanks to the water-bath that we experienced the day
of our baptism.
The day we became incorporated
into Christ is the day we became partners with him – partners in sharing a
divine life and legacy, partners in sanctifying and transforming the world into
the image, idea and plan that God has of it: and that is a family of truly
caring brothers and sisters.
This partnership however must
be a two-way street of absolute and complete commitment to the other. God never
relinquishes his commitment and part of the deal, and neither must we, for when
this reality holds firm to the end we win the prize of everlasting bliss and
blessings.
This truth is what moved the
leper to beg before Jesus: “If you wish, you can make me clean.” The leper
recognized in Christ his Maker – the beginning of his reality of partnership
and potential family membership.
When we, like the leper claim
partnership with Christ in this way, Jesus is moved to pity, he is moved to
reach out to help us, he is moved to heal us of what needs healing.
Let us renew our commitment to
incorporation into the reality of God’s vision of us – and we shall be blessed
eternally.
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