+ Our readings today have to do with “the most important thing!” And
the most important thing is: to do the
will of God, and to do it here, now; HERE NOW, H E R E N O W !!! -you get the idea.
This is the sacrifice God
wants from us as a fitting worship offering, a perfect peace offering, a
perfect Love offering.
Now in our first reading from
the Letter to the Hebrews, the Law (of Sinai, the Law of Moses) could be no
lasting and reliable vehicle to do the same – to offer a worship, peace, Love
offering. The Law is only a reflection
of these realities. Doing God’s will, as he wills it, when he wills it – NOW –
is / can be the “perfect” sacrifice of praise, reconciliation and atonement
under certain conditions.
And the conditions are these:
since no human being could offer such perfect sacrifice – it could only be one
who is both man and God at the same time – and that could be none other than
one who was lovingly chosen by God
himself and jettisoned into our human history, our human family, in order to be
our PEACE, RECONCILIATION, our JOY: the Messiah, Emmanuel, JESUS of Nazareth.
And Jesus graciously joins us
to himself when he obediently and trustingly offers his own human life on the
cross on our behalf thus clinching the deal.
It is the least and most that
we can do: to imitate him – to do as he has already done with and for us – but requiring
our willing cooperation – to offer the sacrifice of our wills, to his, and then
together make a true, authentic and genuine PERFECT OFFERING of ourselves to
God.
This whole process is dramatically
represented and done again in this here and now at each and every Mass we
celebrate and attend, and actively participate in.
And then, when we get to the
Our Father of the mass – we can truly recite with him the reality of our
sonship, brotherhood with him that is meant to be eternal!
At each moment our heart ought
to cry out: HERE I AM LORD, I COME TO DO YOUR WILL: LET’s DO IT HERE, NOW, HERE
NOW, H E R E N O W!
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