[ Today's Readings ]
While from behind, a voice shall sound in your ears:
“This is the way; walk in it,”
when you would turn to the right or to the left.
We are all about turning to the right and to the left. We do behold the Teacher with our own eyes. We behold him in the Eucharist. We behold him in one another. But we quickly turn aside in our thoughts to the supposedly urgent concerns of daily life. We do not regard the Eucharist with the reverent attention it deserves. We do not love one another as we should. Even with him before us we still need to be quiet within so that we can hear the voice which helps us to stay focused. We need to hear "This is the way" because in these words we find the power to not turn to the right or the left.
Our Teacher is the shepherd whose heart is moved with pity for us. We feel troubled and abandoned like sheep without a shepherd. But we do have a shepherd. He makes himself so present to us. He is before our eyes. We don't need to feel troubled or abandoned. Let's hear the voice, "This is the way".
Most people don't realize how present the shepherd is to his sheep. This is why there are so few laborers for the harvest. Only those who know the shepherd labor on his behalf. They are the ones who do not themselves feel abandoned and who do see Jesus in others enough to truly love them. But if we just ask the master of the harvest he is willing to increase these laborers. He is willing to help more and more people to see him.
This is precisely how God wants to heal our world. This is how he wants to heal our wounds and give us the bread we need. He heals the brokenhearted and binds up their wounds. It is his own miraculous power at work in his Mystical Body that does it. All those who know they are not abandoned enjoy it themselves and share it with others.
“Go to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.
As you go, make this proclamation: ‘The Kingdom of heaven is at hand.’
Cure the sick, raise the dead,
cleanse lepers, drive out demons.
Without cost you have received; without cost you are to give.”
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