+ The readings today tell us that we are not meant to be aimless,
rudderless vessels on the great sea of life. If anything like that, we may
be likened to sail boats who depend on the “wind of the Holy Spirit” to push us
along in the ways that God the Father / Creator would have us go. But not only
that, there really is a “magnetic pull” if you will, kind of like the Great
North Star, in front of us, likewise pulling to toward that perfect pier point that is the gate of
eternal life and heavenly existence.
That magnetic pull is the
supernatural reality, entity and power of LOVE
– the dynamic life of the Blessed Trinity that resides in us in a special way
as Baptized, Confirmed Catholics – which knows its origin and source. It is
becoming more and more clear that the dynamic exchange of love between the God
the Father and God the Word, produces the Spirit (Holy Spirit) whose energetic never ceasing undulation is
real “love” – this, is the foundation and subatomic building block of all created
things, including human beings.
The dynamism of LOVE then
created us, the dynamism of love fills us and allows us to have self-conscious being,
the dynamism of love is drawing all of us back to the center, to the core, to
the seat of the Trinity, which is the eternal state of beatific bliss that
awaits those who do not put obstacles in the way, by the misuse of freedom. We
have freedom, to be able to choose to belong to God’s eternal family, that will
actually exist in an everlasting “marriage feast” and “honeymoon that will last
forever!” – and we shall all live happily ever after – if we want to. This of
course, being the “Wedding Feast of the Lamb of God, Jesus” whose death and
resurrection to a newness of being – the full glory of humanity – made the same
now possible for every one else, who simply believes it happened, and continues
to happen, and is the ground of the possibility of eternal endurance, and
purdurance.
This is the “perfection” that
Jesus tells us we are capable of in the gospel passage when he commands us to
“be perfect as our heavenly Father is perfect!” If Jesus commands anything, he
always gives the actual grace and power to be able to do it! PERFECT LOVING EXISTENCE
is our goal, our life and our eternal beatitude.
Today, then let us rely on the
fact that we are more than our bodies, we are more than our minds, we are more
that our earthbound spirits: we are already immortal, we are already chosen, we
are already being drawn to our port in the heavens, by cords of LOVE, cords of
Compassion, cords of Kindness, Forgiveness and Peace – but also cords of
reason, cords of common sense, cords of plans of human helpfulness. We are here
now for each other, so that later we can be there with each other!
I give
you a new commandment: love one another as I have loved you.
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