All of our daily Mass readings are Bible passages that speak
to us, if we would listen.
You could be struck by the first reading where Hosea urges
us, “Let us know, let us strive to know the Lord.” At times really knowing the
Lord might seem to evade you. The physical presence of Jesus has been gone for
two thousand years. Then, when you are praying to God, you are aware that a
million other people are praying to him, and you might wonder how his personal
switchboard could handle all those prayers.
Well, you needn’t worry about there being too many calls for God. Genesis tells us he made us in his own image, and
science tells us that he fitted together the 37, 000,000,000,000 cells in your
body, along with the 14,000,000,000 atoms in each of those cells. So, you
needn’t worry about God’s ability to handle complexity.
Next, you many have been touched by many aspects of Our
Lord’s story of the Tax Collector and the Pharisee, but there is one detail
that you might have missed. Near the end of the story Jesus said the Tax
Collector went home justified. In saying that he went home, Jesus was saying
that the man didn’t change his job as a tax collector. By letting him go on
with that, Jesus was giving his blessing to such less-than-noble work that our
world demand of us. A tax collector, an insurance salesman, even a bartender,
by clean living can be as pleasing to God as a monk or a nun.
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