+ Today our gospel passage reminds us that everything
about the plan and execution of the fact of the redemption of the children of
Adam was God the Father’s. It is a
Father’s heart that was broken when his children sinned; it continues to be
the Father’s heart that is broken
when his children, centuries later, still sin, still turn away from him and
prefer their own power, their own glory and a self-made kingdom of sand! It was
a Father’s heart that devised a plan
to save what was lost!
Jesus came – who is one with
the Father – to tell us in our own human terminology and words – all about that
Father’s love; and how it included not just redeemed and transformed life here
on this earth, but the possibility now of transformed life forever in a kingdom
beyond, and a place prepared, of which we cannot even begin to imagine the
beauty of!
The first reading shows how,
when Jesus had ascended into heaven, and the Church was born on Pentecost with
the coming of the Spirit – that Spirit directly guided the actions of the early
communities as it was their mission and goal to proclaim Christ Crucified and
Risen, and Mankind Redeemed and Transformed by Grace! – and this in the midst
of earthly kingdoms that would militate against it, persecute it and seek
control of it until the end of time.
Our Christian communities in
this day, our day, are called upon and empowered by the same Spirit to do the
same thing: tell all the nations that
everything is different now, and to believe it, which will be credited to
them as justification and life – eternal life with God in a transformed in
every dimension new heaven and earth.
I am
the light of the world, says the Lord; whoever follows me will have the light
of life. May we be Christ’s light this day in all we think, say and
do!
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