Saturday of the Thirty-Second Week in Ordinary Time Year 2 2024
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· 40 viewsGod calls us to keep on doing good, keep on receiving foreigners, even when even some church leaders are kicking out folk who do such. God calls us to keep on praying for justice and right in whatever form, knowing that even corrupt judges sometimes do right out of self interest and that therefore God will do it speedily, even if his timing from our perspective is slow. When Jesus does come, in whatever form, God wants to find faith on the earth, he wants us patiently praying and obediently doing.
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Patience in Doing Right
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In our world doing right does not seem to be rewarded
In our world doing right does not seem to be rewarded
Those who receive immigrants and travelers are often rejected and their good efforts thwarted. This can even happen within the Church, as we see in 3 John with Diotrephes, who “put out of the church” those who received immigrant and traveling through “brethren.”
When one appeals to the courts, one can find the deaf ear of the unjust judge, if not outright hostility from government authorities.
Where is God? we might say as might St Theresa Benedicta of the Cross in Hitler’s Germany as may the Virgin Mary when finding inadequate quarters in Bethlehem and later fleeing to Egypt.
But the instruction of our passages is for patience and continued doing right
But the instruction of our passages is for patience and continued doing right
Gaius is encouraged to receive not only the “brethren” but especially the “foreigners” even though a nearby leader was expelling those who did so from the Church. These Christians should not need to seek help from those outside the Church.
Jesus tells us to keep seeking God’s type of justice from God, even when the heavens seem as cold and hard as brass. If even an unjust judge may eventually render justice just to prevent insult by or difficulty from a widow, how much more (qol we homer) will God “secure their rights” “speedily”? Ah, yes, but his speedy is not ours, for it must take justice for all into account, so “when the Son of Man comes, will he find faith on earth?”
So, sisters, we must keep on keeping on in doing right and praying for the right.
So, sisters, we must keep on keeping on in doing right and praying for the right.
There are people in the Church doing wrong and mistreating those who do right. Herod, who saw himself as a Jewish king, was not exactly nice to Bethlehem for the little hospitality they gave Mary and Jesus. We must ignore such people, whoever they are, and keep on doing what Jesus said to do.
There are times when like Mother Theresa we receive no inward graces for all of our prayer and hard labor for the right or when the wall of injustice does not seem to move despite our prayer. We must keep on praying and doing right.
God wants a comprehensive solution, a comprehensive justice and since he experiences it immediately before him he is willing to let us wait in time until it is time for the Son of Man to come, whether a small coming or the final coming, if only he will find faith on earth, especially find faith in us.
