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Scripture:
Reflection:
I wonder why it pleases a person to be told time stands still when you look into her face, but not to say her face would stop a clock. Why?
I wonder why, when a preacher says, “In closing…” he doesn’t.
I wonder why a speaker who needs no “introduction” gets one anyway.
Many things in this world cause us to wonder. But one of the most striking is that Jesus should want to love us as much as God loves him. “As the Father loves me, so I also love you. Remain in my love.”
It is the experience of this wonderful love, so generously bestowed by God, that motivates the apostles to welcome the Gentiles into the early Church. This was not an easy decision for the Jewish Christians. In today’s first reading a decision is reached by the Council of Jerusalem to open wide the doors. Peter affirms that the Spirit of God is working among the Gentiles. He has experienced this with Cornelius and his family, the first Gentile Christens. James supports Peter’s decision by quoting Scripture. The rest of the “apostles and presbyters” fall silent but eventual agree that a letter (like an encyclical from the Pope) should be written to welcome the Gentiles into the Church.
Fortunately, the early Church leaders, especially Peter, understood God’s wonderful love to be inclusive and that no one of good character was to be excluded. Opinions would have to change, laws would have to be reinterpreted, the “outsiders” would have to be welcomed. The way of doing Christian “business” would change forever.
As someone described it, the love of God is like eclectic current. If the current does not pass through you, it cannot enter into you. If the love of Jesus does not pour through you to others, it is a sign that God’s love is not really in you. The love of God has to be recognized, responded to and passed on. That’s the wonder of it all.
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Scripture:
Reflection:
In our first reading from Sirach, the author says, “Delay not your conversion to the Lord.” This is toward the end of our reading, but what has gone before, and what we hear Jesus say in our Gospel reading all point to what conversion to the Lord means.
Sirach says, “Rely not on your wealth… Rely not on your strength.” Perhaps the most fundamental change in attitude that is necessary for conversion is surrender. The closer we get to God, the more we realize we need to surrender to God’s will, and the more we rely on God rather than our own devices. This is humbling, and sometimes hard to acknowledge, but it is the only way to real peace and serenity. Every time I try to do it my way instead of God’s way, I get into trouble!
The urgency of conversion comes across in what Jesus says in our Gospel reading from Mark. When Jesus talks about moving away from sin, He says, “If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off…. And if your foot causes you to sin, cut it off…. And if your eye causes you to sin, pluck it out.” Jesus is not asking us to mutilate ourselves, but he is challenging us to let go of anything that gets in the way of following Him and coming to the Father. The willingness to do that is a sign of conversion.
The world needs what we have been given: The Good News of Jesus Christ! The world needs more demonstrations of love and peace and justice! I think this is what Jesus means by saying “Keep salt in yourselves, and you will have peace with one another.” If we keep the seasoning of God’s love in ourselves, we can be at peace, work peacefully with others, and spread peace to all. The time for conversion is now!
Fr. Phil Paxton, C.P., is the local superior of the Passionist Community in Birmingham, Alabama.
Scripture:
Reflection:
There is nothing quite as striking or stunning as a rainbow after a deluge of rain that brings life to a standstill. Even while dark clouds still threaten more rain and there is only a promise of sun, the rainbow becomes a sign that the storm is finally over and life can begin again. It is at these moments that we are reminded of how great God is and how fragile we truly are in this life.
The Scripture readings for today’s Mass continue to remind us that God always looks for ways to prod us to acknowledge the power of God to save. In both readings, God initiates the grace and is the One to take the first step and is the One who clearly shows us what life is all about.
The first reading describes the covenant that God makes with Noah and his descendants after the devastating floods that almost destroyed the first creation. In the Genesis stories these last two weeks, we find a God who is good, life-giving, long-suffering, revising original plans for us, indeed, a God who never gives up on us, even when we have given up on God.
In the Gospel reading, we have a Jesus who has preached to all kinds of people, healed the sick, driven out unclean spirits, fed the hungry, opened the eyes of the blind, made the deaf to hear and the dumb to speak, and has yet to hear from his disciples a declaration of who he is. He finally has to ask them, “Who do you say that I am?”
Our faith is ultimately a realization that we are in a very personal relationship with God, especially with each of the three Persons of the Trinity, God Creator, Jesus the Savior and the Holy Spirit the Sanctifier. Our faith gets tested when we experience the storms of life, when the cares and concerns of this life threaten to drown us and overwhelm us and when we think of ourselves as irredeemable and without salvation. Even the best of us can point to moments of darkness in our lives, bad choices made, and wrong decisions embraced.
And then there is a sign from God, a rainbow that says to us that God is good, God is life-giving, God is forgiving and merciful and that Jesus is Love Incarnate. That is when the Spirit is truly present in our lives. Do you not hear God asking you, “Who do you say that I am?”
Fr. Clemente Barrón, C.P. is a member of Mater Dolorosa Community in Sierra Madre, California.
Scripture:
Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10
Mark 8:14-21
Reflection:
Imagine, if you will, these two striking statements taken from our reading today found in Genesis, chapter six:
“When the Lord saw how great was man’s wickedness on earth, and how no desire that his heart conceived was ever anything but evil, he regretted that he had made man on the earth, and his heart was grieved.” And a few sentences later we read the almost plaintive words attributed to the Creator, “…I am sorry that I made them”!
Given the fact that we just celebrated Valentine’s Day a few days ago, a day of heartfelt expressions of love and romance, I don’t know how these words and sentiments touch your own heart but I sure know how they touch mine! I feel almost embarrassed that God, our good and loving God of all creation, regretted what he had done; that because of so much “wickedness on earth” God felt profound grief and deep regret that he had created us at all! And not only us but even “the creeping things and birds of the air.” The author of Genesis was surely expressing something that came from deep within his own soul. It is as if he saw so much evil and ungodliness everywhere he turned – and God would surely see the same – the only way the world could possibly get beyond such darkness would be that through some devastating, horrific calamity there would come a new beginning. Throw it all away and start all over from scratch!
I remember doing that myself once upon a time. Oh, it wasn’t nearly as profound as a possible new creation of the heavens and the earth! Hardly that! But it was significant nonetheless. I was working on a very important homily for a very special event. I spent days and days on this particular piece that just had to come from my heart. It was all going wrong. Nothing was coming together. Finally after a lot of interior struggle I admitted the truth and tore it up and began all over again. I suspect there are bakers, artists, and a myriad of other people who can understand what this feels like, right? Well, in Genesis I do believe that the author, who knew that the Creator’s heart was all about a creation that mirrored his own goodness, mercy, and love, could imagine how, with such darkness and evil instead, could simply come to a point and say, “That’s it. I am done with it. I will wipe them from the face of the earth and start all over again!” But not completely. Thank goodness for Noah; thank goodness for humanity that there was this one good man who “found favor with the Lord” and of whom the Lord himself said, “Go into the ark, you and all your household, for you alone in this age have I found to be truly just.”
The story of the flood is one of the most epic and amazing tales of infinite power, divine regret transformed into mercy, and a new beginning from a God whose own love knows no limit at all. Noah had seven days to prepare for this inevitable calamity, seven days to do the impossible in order to carry on God’s divine plan of creation. I will be honest with you. Sometimes even in our own times I sometimes wonder why God doesn’t send down a thunderous message saying, “What a mess! I think I want to start all over again!” But then, that isn’t what the Lord is thinking at all. It is only a reflection of my own discouragement when I see how, in so many ways, we still fail to love one another; we still do not love the earth and God’s beautiful creation as we should; we still do not see that all creation is meant to be a reflection of the glory and wonder of God. The good news is, God will never give up on us and so we should not give up either! There are new beginnings every day. The big challenge we face, of course, is that we have to look for them even in the darkness; we must embrace them when we find them; and then we carry on, knowing that God is with us and for us in every moment.
Fr. Pat Brennan, C.P. is the director of Saint Paul of the Cross Passionist Retreat and Conference Center, Detroit, Michigan.
