Twelfth Sunday in Ordinary Time (2)

Intro

Surely story prince in beggar

story

Doctrine: royalty underneath the veil

when help least, help me

Leper washing in the filthy Jordan

simple human life of Mary and Jesus

An unveiling that doesnt come until dealing with the plain veil

Be not afraid

solemnly commands gospel, no fear but God

fear/anxiety: belief something MIGHT cause us harm

emotion fear (not itself/ much like ‘love’): compulsion to believe something MIGHT cause harm

emotion violent chaos in the soul

Like dragging soul on chain

fear tranquil belief something MIGHT cause harm

where freedom is, no chain dragging

[prob too complicated]: (despite claim) fear is anxiety and anxiety is fear

anticipations something past, present, future MIGHT unhappiness]

Fear not: calmly/firmly believe that something CANT cause harm,

then better resist the biological emotion of fear/anxiety

secret key to righteousness and inner peace

STATE OF GRACE much lack peace from improper fear/anxiety, + almost all fear/anxiety is improper

which two methods show us fear?

how start avoiding fear? What do with the beggar prince?

Christ is our life

in this life veiled under ratty garment of appear

our life as the beggar prince personified

If consider beggar by appearance

often fearful

Likewise lives based on appearance have room for fear/anxiety

but what will be unveiled?

what is secret that will be shouted from rooftop?

THAT NOTHING, absolutely NOTHING works for our harm for those who seek God

Despite appearances, all happens to us is royalty underneath the guise

every

ratty garment

foul stench

violent scowl

hides the royal reality every moment

even a single hair falling off your head (a comfort to yall who are balding) better for you and others than if didnt.

you are not some cog in the machine

all you have to decide is how respond: sin or faith

Clearer vision

If only you could see the end of all things when our lives are unveiled to reveal the reality thats been there all along under rags

think of stories that make you want to go back and rewatch it know the secret in the end

what the prince was doing now you know it was prince

spoiler:

signs

Prestige

What we experience now can be viewed different in time with nostalgia

just think about a great work like Lord of the Rings

the good ending is almost sad when the battle is over now that you can look back with fondness even on the terrors of the story knowing the end

the end contextualizes the whole unveiling hidden glory that before seemed hidden by rags

after all we are the religion of the cross, where the greatest symbol horror now is now seen as one of the most glorious symbols of righteousness.

Recognize reality

underneath the rags

only recognize one thing as unhappy: being rejected by God [Goodness Himself]

calmly and rationally cling to the truth that no evil in our life suffered in the life is for our unhappiness: Fear no evil!

not even a hair of our head fall without our good in mind, even though we, by appearance, are abandoned beggars.

Notes:

Me:

Final unveiling makes past seem great, want to even go back

nostalgia

the cross, now symbol of glory

simple life as great majesty

good book or move where want to go back?

LotR, almost sad at the end, even though what they went through was pain at the time

6th sense

a good story keeps you guessing until end

even hairloss God counts

do not fear, fear, do not fear

what does this mean?

“homologaesei” say the same as, same word

Commentators:

Erasmo

“solemnly…prohibition against fear except God”

why:

triumph in the end

part of plan secret will soon not be secret

“covered” same word used for bridal covering and funeral one

beauty of woman to be revealed

ugly of corpse

Proclaim intimacy of prayer in secret that tells u not to be afraid

“whoever declares himself to be in me” I will declare him to be in me before the father [Chrysostom says similar]

Dont look for God to acknowledge you on earth but in heaven

Chrysostom

silent be shouted: therefore preaching unreserved! [Jerome too]

no fear BECAUSE of providence

Jerome:

if things made to perish only do so by God’s will how much less you to worry who are made imperishable

Hilary

hairs: no accident can befal even our bodies