Fifteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time (3)

Hierarchy of 12

sent/apostled Greek

12 in OT is perfect number over government

now NT 12 sent/apostled

But why hierarchy?

why fathers over Church

why rely on imperfect, even wicked like Judas, for communion w/ God

why not just self-govern?

alternatives

ONE: figure out Good completely on our own

not natural

ancient philosopher close but short

even those, few and far

poor particularly no time and capacity for study

TWO: God appears to all perfectly spells out

too certain so no room love/heroism

if not intel certain req love to hold it

love w/o intel cert called faith

faith impossible this way

even to apostles didnt appear this way

THREE: Christ writes down a Scripture

typ sola Scrip prob

interpretation

blessed only very very well educated or

man made reliance

Even if alt could work:

fulfill human flourishing?

no, made in image of God

[genesis talk (male +femal) + Trinity]

with structure and mutually loving hierarchy

despite hierarcy child not mor imp than parents and vice versa

so is w/ the faith

Visible Nation

God made visible nation/church/new jerusalem,

not bachelors or bachelorets divorce when disagree

no, none alt best just fulfil 1st command like us,

oft stated personal relation

not second: SEE NEIGHBOR ANOTHER SELF

2nd not just tacked on

not just us and God,

our image like God: communal

part of salvation is crying out like OT for Jerusalm, but the spiritual one: the Church

don’t live w/o head

like no human body w/o ruling head, New jerusa can’t w/o hierarchy

Peter over 12 bishops, 12 over 72 priests, 72 over Masses

branch vine, body part from body

just b/c head corrupts, foolish to cut from body

parts seperated from head fall to earth

break down to more and more individual part, non-denominated until same as dirt of earth

Thus Saul king

Thus David the adulterer and murderer

Thus Israel respects Juda

Thus Judas had apostolic auth

Know this, if 1 in 12 of clergy horrific human, doing as well as God when personally present on earth

as if deliberate so know office not person matters most

that God as work, not the men

Doesn’t let clergy off hook

shepherd judged on how lays down life for flock

also they have to rely on it too

pope can’t

self-ordain

baptise self

not even forgive own sins

perhaps why sends then 2 by two not alone

Why hierarchy 12?

b/c God came to restore what He made

his image a community of persons

thus we are saved in and thru community, and

in community humanity finds greatest fulfillment and recovers her very image

Notes

Me

1st reading also about vocation not choice

poverty was powerful (e.g. Franciscans and Dominicans against Cathars)

2 by 2

witnesses needed (2 cor 13:1.) (Duet 19:15.)

shaking dust means unclean in Jewish sources

cleanliness based on if accept Christ or no

Commentators

Pitre

vocation, He called, not them

apostolos (send)

not so much called in but sent out

method

constantly moving on (spreading) like Christ too

preach repenting

metanoia

change way of thinking

signs (excorcisms and healings)

kerysso (where kyrigma) “preached”

Gregory

send 2, because only 1 cannot practice charity, need at least 2

Bede

no temporal things b/c preacher not be concerned w/ those in proclaiming truth