Saturday, 29th week in Ordinary time
October 27, 2018: Ephesians 4: 7-16; Luke 13: 1-9
Truth is what is - it is neither cooked up nor covered up! When something is imagined and feigned, it actually doesn't exist; and the one who has cooked it up knows it pretty well. He or she stands convicted by his or her own conscience! What is, is is. Even if it is covered up, it never ceases to exist. We better grow up to accept it.
Love is what God is - and that is where we come from and that is what we are made of. It is the ultimate of all truths. Let us grow in love, love for God, love for each other, a patient acceptance of each other and loving fellowship of brothers and sisters.
How long would we go on calling each other names, breaking the Body of Christ into non negotiable bits and pieces? How long will we curse each other and rejoice in the fall of the other? How long will you judge each other and eagerly await, if not actively work for, the destruction of the other? If we go on like this, Jesus says that twice in the Gospel today: 'you will all perish!'
It is high time we realise our call to grow up and bear fruit. God has given us enough and more chances. Let us equip ourselves, not with offences and defences, but with arms of love and feet of generosity. Let us prune our ego and till our arid hearts. Let us sow seeds of love and reap the fruit of brotherhood and sisterhood.
Love is our identity and nothing else is: by this they will know that you are my disciples, by the love that you have for one another (Jn 13:35). There can be no worse scandal than a divided Church and of course, there can be no better proclamation of the Gospel than a loving and united community of faithful, who live together as brothers and sisters, one in the Lord and in the Spirit!
It is high time we realise our call to grow up and bear fruit. God has given us enough and more chances. Let us equip ourselves, not with offences and defences, but with arms of love and feet of generosity. Let us prune our ego and till our arid hearts. Let us sow seeds of love and reap the fruit of brotherhood and sisterhood.
Love is our identity and nothing else is: by this they will know that you are my disciples, by the love that you have for one another (Jn 13:35). There can be no worse scandal than a divided Church and of course, there can be no better proclamation of the Gospel than a loving and united community of faithful, who live together as brothers and sisters, one in the Lord and in the Spirit!
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