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Friday 19thWeek in Ordinary Time
RCCBS August 17, 2018
(Choose longer reading of Ezekiel)
TS ELIOT #1 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø Remember reading poems of T.S. Eliot in college
Ø Most of us have read something he wrote
Ø In one poem, Eliot writes this:
Ø “The Old ought to be explorers
Ø Here and there does not matter
Ø We must be still and still moving
Ø Into another intensity
Ø For another union, a deeper communion”
A DEEPER JOURNEY +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø Eliot’s point isn’t just about senior citizens
Ø About each of us–as get older each year, each day
Ø We’re 2B moving into deeper communion with G
Ø And it’s this deeper communion w/ G that lies behind each Scripture reading today
EZEKIEL’S REALIZATION ++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø Ezekiel tries to help the Israelites realize they were nothing before God loved them.
Ø They were as rubbish thrown by the wayside to fend for themselves. No relationship; no union
Ø But God has picked them up, cleansed them, and drawn them to himself in intimate union
Ø They have become precious in his sight
Ø Yet, captivated by this beauty now, they have turned from God and are left to their own designs
GOSPEL OF MATTHEW ++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø J in Gospel calls 4 a similar intimate union of love
Ø It is the faithfulness in marriage 2 one’s spouse, or a life of celibacy to 1’s commitment to G
Ø Call: 2B faithful 2 G & each other as G’s been 2 us
CONCLUSION ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø For it is out of such faithfulness — either of God to us or we to each other — that constitutes the joy of living
Ø This, of course, is what Eucharist is all about: God’s providing for us the bread of angels
Ø And in our eating we commune w/ G, deepening of that comm & strength 2 live out of that
Ø Yes, Eliot named it well it is, “Moving into another intensity, for another union, a deeper communion”
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