Word to the Wise
Tuesday, September 18, 2018 - Tuesday in the 24th Week in Ordinary Time
[1 Cor 12:12-14, 27-31a and Luke 7:11-17]TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 18, 2018. ST. JUAN MACIAS, O.P. [1 Corinthians 12:12-14, 27-31a] As a body is one though it has many parts, and all the parts of the body, though many, are one body, so also Christ. For on one Spirit we were all baptized into one Body, whether Jews or Greeks, slaves or free persons, and we were all given to drink of one Spirit. Now the body is not a single part, but many.....Now you are Christ’s Body, and individually parts of it....[1 Corinthians] This morning, when I sat down to write this reflection, I managed to get a day ahead of myself and sent the one for September 19. This can happen when I’m on the road, as I am at the moment. A helpful member of the Beloved Congregation called my attention to the lapse. Mea culpa. What I referred to on Sept. 19 as the missing context is partially restored in the one for Wednesday, but not completely. St. Paul carries the analogy with the human body to the factious community by saying, “But as it is, there are many parts, yet one body. The eye cannot say to the hand, “I do not need you,” nor again the head to the feet, “I do not need you.” He then speaks of various roles that people may fill in the community according to the gift each ash received. Over all of this he insists that everyone should have the gift of love, which I speak to for Sept. 19. We are all in this together. Our current turmoil will not be settled by decree but only by all the parts of the Body of Christ working together in love. We need one another from Pope to pewperson. AMEN