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Friday 19thWeek in Ordinary Time
Washington Retreat House
August 16, 2019
TS ELIOT ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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 trust and communion with G
Ø And it’s this deeper trust an communion w/ G that lies behind each Scripture reading today
JOSHUA’S REALIZATION +++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø Joshua tries to help the Israelites realize they have been preserved by God’s love
Ø Time and again God proved worthy of their trust
Ø God delivered us and, “Gave you a land that you had not tilled and cities that you had not built, to dwell in; you have eaten of vineyards and olive groves which you did not plant.”
Ø We must be still and reflect on the deliverance and we must be still moving into new levels of trust
GOSPEL OF MATTHEW ++++++++++++++++++++++++
Ø J in Gospel calls 4 a similar intimate union of love borne of trust
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 trust, communion & 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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