WORD 2day: Tuesday, 1st week in Ordinary time
January 14, 2025 - Hebrews 2: 5-12; Mark 1: 21-28
The first dimension is the God dimension - the vertical dimension, the height. We believe in a God who deigned to become like us; that is what we celebrated for a long time, a short while ago. This mystery of incarnation, about which the letter to the Hebrews speaks to us, is based on another fact, that was already indicated by the psalmist long before the epistles or the gospels - that God made human person little less than a God! And today we see, God made God's some less than the Angels to come amidst us. These are ways in the which mystery of incarnation had always been a means deployed by God to identity Godself with us... seeking that communion where we will feel one with God.
The second dimension is the other dimension - the horizontal dimension, the breadth. The Gospel begins with a phrase that we will often, not just in the markan narrative, but evey in others: Jesus and his disciples. The community that Jesus was building around him was the first of all his messages of the Reign. He wished not create a community not merely to announce the message, but to be the message!
The third dimension is the interior dimension - the inner dimension, the depth. We are reminded today of the way Jesus taught - "with authority"! The authority was his integrity, which is precisely this communion with oneself, the communion within - that is the only source of authority to proclaim the message from the Lord. The communion which signifies no separation within us, in the core of our beings.
We have embarked, or we are invited to embark, on this journey of faith, in communion with the Lord, with the other and with ourselves. Let us strive to march on, in communion!