Jerusalem, also, will become the city of darkness on that sad and dark, dark, day that we now call the Feast of the Holy Innocents. It is when Herod, in a rage, murders innocent children.
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Today’s ugly Gospel story becomes a mirror for us
Especially of what others may think of us.
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Jesus calls us to share in his chalice
To empty it so that others can become full to love, and forgive always and everywhere and everyone.
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The prophets constantly call us back to God
Have we experienced the same call of the apostles? Do we hear ourselves responding like Isaiah, and saying with his same clarity, “Here I am! Send me!”
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Nothing diminishes the word of God
The Gospel intensifies also as Jesus gives multiple instructions as to what and how the new apostles were to go into the towns and villages to proclaim the kingdom of God.
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The Holy Trinity unfolds itself to us, through us, now and forever
It doesn’t seem surprising to have a notion of God as a communion of love between Father-Son-Spirit — three persons, yet one God.
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With these scriptures today, the drama begins!
Since no one actually witnessed the resurrection, these stories — each of them — point to and make the claims, especially the appearance stories themselves, that Jesus Christ had indeed been raised from the dead.
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We are broken, but Jesus leads us back to God
And further, this will be done divinely by Jesus on the cross as he loves and forgives, and gives us the model of what and how to do that in total pain and rejection, and human failure, but Divine Redemption.
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Jesus reveals a Father who always loves
Or does he withhold his love?
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Like Mary, we are called
And when we realize that deep within we are also invited to be “conformed to the image of his Son.”
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