Friday
of Week 33 in Ordinary Time
Today is the feast day of
Saint Edmund who died in 869. Like many venerated saints-martyrs, his remains (and the life they lived) inspired and animated a new community. We human beings like
stuff we can touch, see, and connect with. Is that why relics have such
power over the imagination?
Saint Edmund had a body and a
life…just like I do.
He walked, and talked, and
loved, and grieved
…just I like I do.
Taking the incarnation as far
as it can go…we arrive at the possibility for a saintly existence…for everyone.
Our stuff, is in fact NOT, a barrier...but rather the raw
material of our holiness.
In the Gospel today the stuff
is the Temple. It is lifeless stuff. The Church, the Communion of
Saints, the Body of Christ cannot be held in stuff that isn't made in the image
and likeness of God. It can't be held in stones. Stones can be
icons…for sure, but giving the work of holiness to what is Temple-like is a cop
out. It is just too UNMESSY. Incarnation = MESSY!
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