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But, in reality this is not the case at all. Jesus, the long-expected Messiah, would indeed come one day, God will break into human history, and it will never be the same again: HOPE will be regenerated, the upward, spiral of growth and development will be engaged in again, and what could never be possible before, would now be possible: all that drags us down, even to the point of sin and death, will be transformed into its very opposite by the willing acceptance of human death, on our behalf, of the sinless, deathless God. This is monumental! – and this is the same gospel message that has been proclaimed since the Apostles went out from the Mount of the Ascension – 2000 years ago.
+ We have two interesting readings today at mass: the
first reading from the book of Ecclesiastes is the famous “Vanity of vanities,
says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!” This has most always
been understood as a spinning-wheels kind of message that tells us – being an
Old Testament reading that it is – that “unless something radically new or
different happens,” then, there is no real hope of rising above anything at
all. “What was, is and will be, and that’s that – there is nothing new under
the sun.”
But, in reality this is not the case at all. Jesus, the long-expected Messiah, would indeed come one day, God will break into human history, and it will never be the same again: HOPE will be regenerated, the upward, spiral of growth and development will be engaged in again, and what could never be possible before, would now be possible: all that drags us down, even to the point of sin and death, will be transformed into its very opposite by the willing acceptance of human death, on our behalf, of the sinless, deathless God. This is monumental! – and this is the same gospel message that has been proclaimed since the Apostles went out from the Mount of the Ascension – 2000 years ago.
The gospel passage is very
interesting as well. Herod the tetrarch – the roman government official – was
curious about all that was happening with the Jesus interruption into human
history. “Who is this enigmatic person? Jesus of Nazareth? Why do I keep trying
to catch a glimpse of him, both physically but also spiritually? What is there
about this man that is so irresistible?
If we take these reading
seriously, then we too will be asking the same questions: who is this person
Jesus, why am I so interested in him, how can I find out more? Why do we ask
these questions? because we need to prove to ourselves that the mundane,
routine and ordinariness of our lives is really heading somewhere – the we are
moving upwards and onwards, beyond the boundaries of the physical and mental, into
the realm of the Real and the Beautiful and the Good and the LOVING!
Yes, Jesus, you are the way
and the truth and the life! and I want to share in your friendship forever!
Amen.
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