+ Today is a remembering kind of Sunday. It is
almost time for Jesus to finish his work on earth that required his physical
presence. He would be returning to the Father soon, ascending into heaven on a cloud.
Since his resurrection he has
done his best to get his apostles to “remember” all that he taught them, so
that they would be ready to be sent out ten days after the Ascension on the
Feast of Pentecost. And so they remembered his birth in a stable,
his hidden childhood, his Baptism in the Jordan which inaugurated him as
Suffering Servant of the Lord – who would free God’s people from their sins and
open the gates of eternal life to them once and for all! Before he accomplished
this by a brutal experience of death on a Cross, he told them to remember all the events in his life
by a meal of remembrance which would
be called Eucharist: The Mass. And, lastly he wanted them to remember that with his leaving – the Holy Spirit would come to
them to empower them to bring the gospel and the sacraments of the Church to all the world until the end of time!
Yes, this is quite a time of remembrance
for us as Catholic Christians.
But we also remember this
weekend first of all the steady and sure nurturance of our mothers and
grandmothers – who “played it by ear” as much as mothers in our own generation
do here and now – and we thank them for remembering their motherly instincts and
intuitions which came deep inside themselves – as well as from their own
mothers. Let us remember that no mother is perfect, but all mothers are perfect
in their desire for their children to be happy, to be loved and to pass that
love on to grandchildren and all children everywhere.
We also remember at this time
of uncertainty and quite frankly chaos and anxiousness that GOD IS WITH US, GOD
IS NEAR US, GOD IS IN US – ALL – everyone everywhere – and so from that
remembrance of a supremetly creative life force we can come up with an infitine
number of remedies for what is going on in our families, our communities, our
states, our country and our world. God cannot lift a finger to help us as even
a mother would, when we IS all we need deep within ourselves: WE HAVE ONLY TO
CHOOSE TO BELIEVE IT, AND THEN ACT AS THOUGH OUR DESIRES HAVE BEEN WORKED OUT –
we are all co-creators of our individual and corporate well-being!
It is up to our Churches to
aid us in this process of self-actualization, not to do things for us, or
because they think we are incapable of doing it “right” – we are responsible
for doing it perfectly/imperfectly – and so we look to them for reassurance,
and for tips and for their duty to remind us that we are free, we are redeemed,
we are chosen, and we are LOVED ETERNALLY at each and every moment!
Let our week be one of hope
then, not in spite of the coronavirus, but because of it – there is an answer,
there is a solution, and we are privileged, all of us, to be a participant in
it! Amen.
Do not let your hearts be
troubled: trust in God, trust in others, trust in yourself!
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