For several weeks now we’ve been celebrating critical events, beginning with Easter, then Ascension, Pentecost, Trinity, Corpus Christi, Sacred Heart…..it’s almost like celebratory overload! And now we set our feet back down on the ground and return to Ordinary Time.
So, what is our focus as we start back to the everydayness? It is God’s love for us, from time immemorial! How do we hear that? In today’s readings:
We are reminded of how special we are, as God’s personal creation! God told us this through the prophets, through the disciples and through God’s own Son, the Christ, now risen, now glorified. We may be thousands of years from experiencing Jesus, the Christ, physically here on earth, but we are intimately close to God each time we receive the Eucharist, each time we pray, each time we recall God’s immense love in creation. And that creation includes everything and everyone around us, near or far.
So, what is that message of God’s love telling us today? “You must hearken to my voice and keep my covenant”. “We will be saved by Jesus’ life”. And the last words of the Gospel tell us concretely how we are to live into that love, that life: “Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.”
