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The Perspective of
Justice
30th Sunday of Ordinary Time B
October 25, 2015
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We
inhabitants of the earth are a people in exile. We are not
at home on the very land we occupy, and so we rape and plunder
it. We are not at home with each other, and so we violate
each other’s dignity and kill. When one of us cries
out prophetically to the Lord, as the blind beggar Bartimaeus
did, the others “scold him to make him keep quiet.”
Fortunately, though, we have a Lord who “will bring them back from the land
of the north, who will gather them from the ends of the world,” so that they
can “return as an immense throng.” This is the Lord who has “done great
things for us,” especially for the blind and the lame such as Bartimaeus.
“What do you want me to do for you?” Jesus asks the blind beggar. What do the
people of the world want us Christians to do for them? Can we bring them home
and lead them out of exile? Can we follow in the footsteps of Christ and “do
away with death?” Can we provide the faith that will heal?
We
do not know the time for the consummation of the earth
and of humanity. Nor do we know how all things will
be transformed. As deformed by sin, the shape of this
world will pass away. But we are taught that God is
preparing a new dwelling place and a new earth where
justice will abide, and whose blessedness will answer
and surpass all the longings for peace which spring
up in the human heart.
Vatican II, Constitution on the Church in the Modern World,
1965: 39: 24 |
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Now
published in book form,
To Love and Serve:
Lectionary Based Meditations, by
Gerald Darring
This entire three year cycle is available at
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Art by Martin Erspamer,
O.S.B.
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