Friday, October 24, 2008

October 26, 2008, 30th Sunday in OT, Cycle A

We are beginning the climax of the Church year. At the end of November, the Church year ends. And, so the readings we’ll hear over the next few weeks orient us toward “The End”... of life, of time, of the world...and ask us to be prepared so that we may transcend the limitations of physical life, and time and the material world to know eternity. Just as the beginning of the Bible--Genesis Chapter 1–builds toward Sabbath, the crown of all creation–the day when God and humans “meet” and get to know each other, the readings of the next several weeks “build” toward the New Creation or Re-creation of all that has ever been, as all of existence and its history is bound up into the promise of eternal life. This week’s readings bring us to the basics of religion–just in case we were losing our way. The duties we owe to God are truly life-giving things, for He IS the Lord of Life! And, so, LOVE is at the center. Exodus reminds us, though, that “love, Love, LUV!” is merely poetry UNTIL we begin to do definite actions: stop oppressing aliens and the poor, being decent in lending to those in need, etc. It is in doing the daily “little things” that we embody religion and “imitate the Lord,” and fulfill the poetry of love. Let us “love” in the small things, so that our lives may paint the Greater Picture. God bless.

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