WORD 2day: Friday, 20th week in Ordinary time
August 23, 2024 - Ezekiel 37: 1-14; Matthew 22: 34-40
The world is experiencing a time that is strange in all its sense and meaningless in its totality. There is some invention or development every single day in the field of social networking, making it easier and easier to stay in touch and communicate to each other. But the paradox is that world is growing colder by the day towards those who are suffering, those who are struggling, those who are left without hope, those who are exploited and targetted, denied their rights, robbed of their dignity and incessantly dehumanised. This is an experience that we can call the dry bone syndŕome.
Bones strewn all around but having nothing to do with each other. Bones so dry and lifeless that they lack any sign of hope. Persons everywhere bumping into each other and crisscrossing without limits, but no one wishing to enter meaningfully into the life of the other. Isn't it right to call this a dry bone syndrome?
The Spirit, the breath of the Lord that the Lord commands Ezekiel to prophesy about, is directly the Spirit of the Lord, the love for God and the love for one's neighbours. It is Love that can give life to this heap of dry bones. It is the love that God lavishes upon us and the realisation of it, that can urge us to love others (2 Cor 5:14).