Tuesday, August 9, 2016

Eat it!

Tuesday of Week 19 in Ordinary Time
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)



If the general narrative flow of the Book of Ezekiel is weird, to bad, to much worse, to better, we are in the beginning…the ‘weird’ part.

Four creatures with two pairs of wings...
…Inside storm and clouds
…Each with four faces…one of which is human
…And wheels and burning coals

Weird

Above all this weird stuff, Ezekiel discerns the Lord…the clues: throne, rainbow, glory.

God says Ezekiel must go to his people and warn them.  He will be held accountable for their sinfulness if he doesn’t!

As all good preachers know, in order to speak the Word of the Lord, you better have first chewed on it yourself!  You should probably even have wrestled with it!  Good news for Ezekiel…it tastes really good!  The scroll/the Word, is eaten, taken in, digested, broken down, absorbed, and transformed into the energy that propels a life.

Fill up on my Word, says the Lord
Overeat!
Go on…trust me…it will be good for you!

Otherwise, Ezekiel (or some other son of man aka mortal)
will end up preaching him/herself…not The Word of the Lord.

It is so Eucharistic.  
The love of God...God's very self, overflows
We receive and hope to be overwhelmed by God's presence
…in Word, Sacrament, Creation, Each Other

Overwhlem me…
That I may become what I eat!


(for an interesting history of the phrase ‘you are what you eat’ click here)

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