Saturday, 5/4/13
Jesus addressed his
disciples as “You who do not belong to this world.” He said, “I have chosen you
out of this world.” He said he had
appointed them to go bear fruit that would remain.
The first reading
described the journey of a similar group that the Lord had chosen out of this
world. Paul and Silas and Timothy had evangelized the central towns of in what
is modern day Turkey. They had attempted to go preach the Gospel to towns
southwest of there, but with one incident after another blocking their way,
they decided it was God’s will that they move towards the old city of Troy in
the northwest. From there they planned to cross over to preach in Europe. It was at
Troy that St. Luke seems to have made his commitment to accompany Paul, serving
the Lord.
I say it was there he
“seemed to have made his commitment to accompany Paul, serving the Lord.” Up to
then Luke, the author of the Acts of the Apostles, had been describing the
journey on foot of three men, Paul, Silas, and Timothy. But when it came to
crossing over to Macedonia Luke suddenly stopped talking about what they had
done, switching to saying , “We set sail for Macedonia.”
Speaking of Paul’s
little group, and speaking as well of the twelve Apostles, whom Jesus had chosen
out of this world, makes us think of similar groups today. Our Sister of St. Francis Xavier who come to Mass here every morning are a similar group. The Lord has
chosen them out of this world. Then, in my twenty-four years at St. Paul’s we had similar
happy groups. We had a parish council where the members met to discuss making
things better all around. We had a fine faculty, made up of men and women who
didn’t earn much, but whose children learned much. We had an outstanding ladies
guild that did all that was requested of them, then, doing more.
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