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The Perspective of
Justice
14th Sunday of Ordinary Time C
July 7, 2013
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In todays Gospel, Jesus sends his disciples out in pairs,
and he tells them to bring nothing with them. They are to
carry the message that the kingdom of God is at hand, but
they must trust in Gods care.
For it is God whose “right hand is filled with justice,” it is God who will “free
us from sin,” and it is God who will “spread prosperity
over [the world] like a river, and the wealth of the nations
like an overflowing torrent.”
The disciples of Jesus are
sent to call others to “come and see the works of God,
his tremendous deeds among men.”
They know that the Lords
power shall be “known to his servants through their efforts,”
and they exclaim with Paul: “May I never boast of anything
but the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ!”
We Christians are called to go out into the world with a message of love, justice,
forgiveness, and peace. We are to work for the coming of the kingdom. But our
hope is in the Lord, and our faith tells us that the salvation of the world is
a gift from God. “Blessed is he who hopes in God.”
Because
peace, like the kingdom of God itself, is both a divine
gift and a human work, the Church should continually
pray for the gift and share in the work. We are called
to be a Church at the service of peace, precisely because
peace is one manifestation of Gods word and work
in our midst.
(U.S. Bishops, The Challenge of Peace, 1983: 23)
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Gerald Darring
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