Third Sunday of Ordinary Time • Year A
God is seeking us even when we are not seeking him. Augustine admits that we are just a small portion of God’s creation carrying about the signs of our mortality. But we are not left out of the possibility of an encounter and communion with God. Some may be called in the way Simon and Andrew were called -as if waiting to be touched in their own deep faithful disposition- while many others are questioning, struggling to see and hear, to comprehend the mystery of themselves and God. Augustine was one of them. That is why he insisted that we ought to seek, knock on the door and call upon the Lord.
Fourth Sunday of Lent • Year C
However such awareness must be followed by the courage to act. In the parable we hear the moving words: ‘I shall rise and return to my father.’ Here is the son struggling to survive and reaching out to the abiding truth of his father. How long does it take to move forward? For some the decision may be made right there, in an instant. For others, to resolve the inner tensions of a divided will might take days, perhaps years.
The Baptism of the Lord • Year C
Like the grain of wheat, we must go to the ground of our interior self and empty it of disordered love, delusions, and attachments that thrive in our human condition. The experience is hard facing the seductive inventions of the world. We hear that happiness is in the present, a humdrum that flows through all the resources that shape our daily life. It challenges a shaky will to respond to the call of our vocation that urges to take off the garments of the old self and ‘clothe ourselves with Christ’ (Galatians 3:27).
Sixth Sunday of Easter • Year B
. It begins with our weakness for instant gratification. Love and friendship have been devalued in many ways, lost in a torrent of words and images, trivialized, and emptied of moral concerns and responsibilities. Our media-matic gadgets carry a deluge of that stuff every day. It is all too easy to talk, sing or act in a manner that looks like friendship or love. People become intoxicated to the point of living the illusion without examining the reality in their own lives. And it becomes difficult to sort out the good from the false and harmful elements that pervade like weeds our love and friendships.