Wednesday, 4/2/14
One time, in speaking to a group
of parish ladies, I was carried away in speaking of our solar system. I was
saying it was just one of thousands of such systems in our galaxy, while our
galaxy was just one of the universe’s thousands of galaxies.
One of the ladies interrupted me,
saying, “Father, we don’t like thinking of things too big for us.” I think the
trouble with today’s readings might be that they enter into matters too big for
us.
The first reading came from the
end of the seventy-year Babylonian captivity. The grandchildren of the original
captives had grown up, and found contentment as slaves of Babylon. God’s prophet came among
them, saying that they should give up their lives of comfortable servitude to
make the long journey through wild country to the place where their
great-grandparents had lived.
Most of the people said, “We are
sure that Jerusalem must be very nice, but we have found ways to be comfortable
here.”
We have somewhat similar feelings
toward the way Jesus spoke in todays’ Gospel. The mysterious relationship
between the Persons in the Blessed Trinity is all very fine, but a little too
exalted for our minds to grasp.
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