Word to the Wise
Monday, June 15, 2009 - Monday in the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time
[2 Corinthians 6:1-10 and Matthew 5:38-42]As your fellow workers, we appeal to you not to receive the grace of God in vain. For he says, "In an acceptable time I heard you, and on the day of salvation I helped you. " Behold, now is a very acceptable time; behold now is the day of salvation.
The old saying has it: "No time like the present!" Another way of putting it is: "Ransom the time!" St. Paul's personal tone becomes an urgent one, and he backs it up with a long list of his trials in service to the Lord. "Now is a very acceptable time," he urges! Our faith, our "new creation," is not simply a membership in an organization that strongly suggests that we attend the weekly meeting on Sunday! We are humans every second of the day and we are Christians every second of the day! Therefore our witness must be a consistent and constant one (at least as humanly possible for each of us." The words of the great French Cardinal, Emmanuel Suhard come to me as I write this: "To be a witness does not consist in engaging in propaganda, nor even in stirring people up, but in being a living mystery. It means to live in such a way that one's life would not make sense if God did not exist." Behold, now is the day of salvation! AMEN
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