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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