Third Thursday of Advent
Jer 23: 5-8; Mt 1: 18-25
Jer 23: 5-8; Mt 1: 18-25
Emmanuel, our justice
The most challenging of all attributes of God is what Jeremiah notes today: the Lord our justice. It was the experience of God that proved salvific for the people of Israel and it was the same experience that proved their detriment when it was to deal with their way of treating the strangers, the orphans, the widows and the helpless.
The Lord showed them his preferential love because they were exploited and those who exploited he reduced them to nothing. Today the Lord lives, the Lord lives with us and we are invited to acknowledge that presence of the Lord amidst us. In acknowledging it, we acknowledge the call that each of us has received in the Lord- to be instruments of this special presence of the Lord.
Joseph received the instruction as to how to be that special presence. He carried it out diligently and secured his irreplaceable niche in the marvellous plan of God.
No comments:
Post a Comment