Thursday, September 27, 2018

Sep 27 - Thursday 25th Week in OT

https://youtu.be/KgkAB26ISho

+ 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.



No comments:

Happy New Year 202

  A Happy New Year to you all! I hope and pray I am able to keep this blog up to date now that we are entering into the New Year! I would li...