Word to the Wise
Tuesday, October 6, 2015 - Tuesday in the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
[Jonah 3:1-10 and Luke 10:38-42]TUESDAY, OCTOBER 6, 2015 TUESDAY IN THE TWENTY-SEVENTH WEEK IN ORDINARY TIME [Jonah 3:1-10 and Luke 10:38-42] "There is need of only one thing. Mary has chosen the better part and it will not be taken from her." [Luke] As I write this reflection I am finishing a preaching engagement at a monastery of cloistered Dominican nuns in a suburb of Detroit. This way of life has been a part of the Dominican Order from the very beginnings with St. Dominic. The apostolic congregations of Dominican women came along much later. The cloistered nuns embrace a life of contemplative prayer. Many of them look to the example in today's gospel of Mary, "sitting at the Lord's feet listening to him speak." (I can tell you, however, that most of them don't do this all day. A monastery has to be administered!) These sisters remind all of us friars of the importance of the contemplative dimension of our own preaching vocation. The cloistered vocation came along many centuries after Luke wrote his gospel, so it is not likely that he had cloistered contemplatives in mind, but rather all Christians. Discipleship does not begin with busyness, no matter how important that busyness is. It begins first and foremost with listening to The Lord. It's really a matter of common sense. Listen first to the instructions before trying to do the job. AMEN
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