The theme of our readings today comes from the responsorial refrain: Behave like God as his very dear children!
We are not only invited to be such children of God, we are also empowered to be so! It is not an easy thing to make moral, pure and generous other-oriented decisions all of the time: but it is possible, with the help of the Holy Spirit!
St. Paul tells the Ephesians and us today: though once you once were darkness (notice he says here not "you were in darkness" but "you were darkness itself") now you are light in the baptism of the Lord Jesus that makes all the difference in your world, and in the world at large. So live as children of light. Put away any semblance at all of immorality, impurity or greed – and rather give God glory, praise and thanks both directly and in all you do – the God whose light you are!
In the gospel passage Jesus encourages us all to use our heads and our hearts in being of loving service to one another: the moral, pure and generous other-oriented decision is always the appropriate thing to do: even "on the Sabbath" – even at an unscheduled, seemingly inappropriate time. The law of love, the law of God always takes precedence over external legal prescriptions.
May all of us be cured of our crookedness this day: because we ask God's help and he graciously wills it so even though there may be many reasons for this not to be the "correct day" for it!
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