+ The readings today continue of season of listening and
learning from the words of the readings and homilies with the portrayal of Jesus given fresh from a
week ago Friday’s celebration of the Solemnity of His Most Sacred Heart. The Incarnate Word Made Flesh is
“meekness and humility,” is “self-sacrificial love extraordinaire” housed now
in our own frail humanity, so to redeem it and transform it to resemble his own
self, his own image, his own glory!
St.
Paul tells the Romans in the first reading that the baptized simply live primarily from a spiritual point of view and
reality: after the water is poured and the words are said: You are not in the flesh, on the contrary,
you are in the spirit…and so, live by the Spirit and put to death the
[idolatrous and evil] deeds of the body…and you will live [a wonderful
spiritual life now, that will last into eternity]!
In
the gospel passage Jesus praises his Father for keeping this
message of “life in the Spirit” available and understandable especially, and
quite frankly, exclusively, to the little
ones, the simple and the childlike, the meek and the humble – who like
Jesus himself lives entirely for God and his glory and for the building up of
his kingdom! The task of doing this, Jesus announces, is easy and light – for those who go
to him, and place their hearts in his
heart’s embrace, their hands in his
and conform their wills and ways to those assigned by him!
By
our listening, reflecting and resolving to allow ourselves to be motivated to
action, and then fed by the very Eucharistic presence of Jesus, who
is our spiritual energy – we can go forth from this mass to make a calming,
peaceful, but very significant impact on the persons and situations that await
us, for the rest of this day, and for all of the coming days of the new week
that stretches out before us.
Blessed
are you, Father, Lord of heaven and earth; you have revealed to little ones the
mysteries of the kingdom! – thank you for making us your children.
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