Wednesday of
Week 28 in Ordinary Time
Luke
11:42-46
We are trucking right along in Luke’s Gospel. Jesus is getting heated as he throws woe
to you’s around. Pharisees and
scribes are both indicted. Best not to be too quick about distancing ourselves
from the nature of their failure…I am most certainly at times both snooty and
smarty-pants.
Leadership as service is undetectable in the actions of
the Scribes and Pharisees in this polemic argument. The look at me attitude of the Pharisees
and the focus on minutiae that marks the scribes…both mired in the ego.
Begin instead with the Love of God who first loved us
into being. Express that love in care
and concern of neighbor (because the only way to respond is by paying it
forward). Justice and mercy are the fruits of that love.
Like yesterday…Jesus gives us a starting point. If we stick with it we won’t get turned
around. And we won't find that finger out in front of us;) It is that simple and that tough.
In a spirit
of thankfulness
We wash each
other’s feet
Uphold each
other’s lives
In a spirit
of joy and praise
We serve
each other now
At the table
of the Lord
Always
remember
Among yourselves
The greatest
one must be the servant
Just as the
Lord
Among his
own
Has made
himself servant of all
---Serving
You, by Michel Guimont...a favorite for Holy
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