+ In our gospel passage today Jesus chastises the
Pharisees and scribes: “This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts
are far from me… You nullify the word of God.”
And what a travesty and
blunder this is: it is precisely that Word of God which brings forth creation –
and sustains and nurtures it along.
“Then God said” – these are
enormous words with far-reaching consequences: especially when they are
directed and apply to us.
Today, let us beg for the
grace to leave behind our preconceptions and faulty “traditions” and to have
God remake – recreated, through his very Word and words, our minds and hearts
again and again in his own image and likeness.
And then we shall be who God
has in mind for us to be – and we will set the world ablaze with good words and
works of our own!
O
Lord, our God, how wonderful you name in all the earth!
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