The uncompromisable Priority
Saturday, 2nd week in Easter
Acts 6: 1-7; Jn 6: 16-21
Jesus was with the disciples, speaking to the people all through the day and after having fed them and been in all that din, he sends the apostles away to the other shore but he himself goes alone to pray. He was very firm on his priority!
The Apostles as they began their ministry amidst the new found faith, they had their model clear and loud: Jesus! Their priorities were challenged at every step and thoroughly. But they had a Master and Friend who never gave up on his priorities. The first reading brings to us one occassion where the apostles seem to keep to the uncomprimisable priority: the primacy of God.
Nothing can substitute a personal relationship with God: we may claim to be working for God and working in the name of God...but a personal relationship with God is not the same as the aforementioned. Our priority for primacy of God cannot waver, cannot be compromised! It is a relationship that is spoken of here...the human-divine relationship out of which I receive 'grace upon grace' as St. Paul would claim.