Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor.
A reflection on the daily readings, for Monday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time, by Father Perry.
By Father Perry D. Leiker, pastor
+ Perhaps one of the most convincing things about the early Christian community was the observation and remark made by observers of those early Christians: “See how they love one another.”
And that flowed directly from the “command” of Jesus himself who said: “I give you a new commandment, that you love one another; just as I have loved you.”
And in today’s Gospel, Jesus is making the point quite strongly that faith is to be lived; it is not just some esoteric idea, something just to be pondered.
No. It is a way of life.
In fact, one day in John‘s Gospel, Jesus would make the point: “I am the way.”
And clearly this way was not to be hidden under a bed or to be like a light lit then covered up; it was to be proclaimed in word and most of all in acts and actions.
And furthermore, Jesus claimed that you had to, “use it or lose it”; those who use it and live it, would find that the power in that faith would grow and double, and become more and more and more.
But those who hide it, or keep it closed within, or fail to live it would find it withering away and becoming useless, “the one who has not, even what [little] he seems to have will be taken away.”
King Cyrus.
