Friday, September 23, 2016

Time, Time, Time

Friday of week 25 in Ordinary Time
Saint Pius of Pietrelcina
Ecclesiastes 3:1-11



A time to be born, and a time to die…

I can’t read this pericope without having the music from the Byrds’ Turn, Turn, Turn attack my brain! 

But after all the 'a time for this and a time for that', the writer says:  He has made everything appropriate to its time, and has put the timeless into their hearts.  I have had time on my mind.  Linear earthly time versus cosmic unfolding eternal time.  Simply pondering the notion of the eternal, that beyond-ness that we humans intuit and that was made explicit in the resurrection, speaks of that timelessness in the human heart.  That is why meaning is ever even a consideration.  Meaning’s horizon is the eternal.  No eternal, no meaning. 

We live in two worlds…one of space and time and one of promise and hopeful expectation.  In prayer we co-mingle these worlds as we ask God to redeem our waiting in joyful hope.


Lord of time and space and history, hear our prayer.

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