THE WORD IN ADVENT - First Saturday
December 7, 2019: Remembering St. Ambrose
Isaiah 30: 19-21,23-26; Matthew 9:35 - 10:1,5,6-8
God is Gracious, God is Compassionate - that is the key to behold the message of the Word today. Jesus chooses his apostles and sends them out - because he had compassion on the people. Jesus sends the apostles out because there was so much to be done, so much tears to be wiped, so much guilt to be washed, so much suffering to be allayed, so much love to be shared, so much hope to be spread, in order that the Reign of God may truly come.
The Lord sends you and me today - to go out and share love, spread hope, and build the Reign of God. Do we have doubts as to what we can really do? Never mind, for we will hear the voice of the Master behind us, 'This is the way, walk in it!" (Is 30:21). And that's the voice we are called to be - how can we be, unless we first listen to it ourselves! Hence the call: to return to the voice of the Lord!
The Lord depends on you and me... to take God's compassion to the the needy and the suffering...yes the harvest is plentiful, there is so much to be done! There are people, multitudes who are longing for those words of consolation from the Lord, who are looking for the strength from the Saviour, who are searching for a voice that would lead them on. The Lord depends on you and me... if we are lost to return to that voice; if we are safe, to be that voice to those who are still seeking.
As God chose Ambrose from the crowd, with just a voice of a child crying out his name, to be raised into a great pastor in the Church, to win over later, a great saint like Augustine for the Lord, so does God choose you and me today! Yes, it is you and I who have to do it... take the Reign of love and compassion to our brothers and sisters! To hear that Voice and to spread that Voice... for that, first we need to Return, to the Voice of the Lord!
Isaiah 30: 19-21,23-26; Matthew 9:35 - 10:1,5,6-8
The Lord sends you and me today - to go out and share love, spread hope, and build the Reign of God. Do we have doubts as to what we can really do? Never mind, for we will hear the voice of the Master behind us, 'This is the way, walk in it!" (Is 30:21). And that's the voice we are called to be - how can we be, unless we first listen to it ourselves! Hence the call: to return to the voice of the Lord!
The Lord depends on you and me... to take God's compassion to the the needy and the suffering...yes the harvest is plentiful, there is so much to be done! There are people, multitudes who are longing for those words of consolation from the Lord, who are looking for the strength from the Saviour, who are searching for a voice that would lead them on. The Lord depends on you and me... if we are lost to return to that voice; if we are safe, to be that voice to those who are still seeking.
As God chose Ambrose from the crowd, with just a voice of a child crying out his name, to be raised into a great pastor in the Church, to win over later, a great saint like Augustine for the Lord, so does God choose you and me today! Yes, it is you and I who have to do it... take the Reign of love and compassion to our brothers and sisters! To hear that Voice and to spread that Voice... for that, first we need to Return, to the Voice of the Lord!