As you received Christ Jesus the Lord, walk in him,
rooted in him and built upon him
Our growth needs to come from Jesus. Other religions may contain seeds of the word, as Vatican II says. They contain things which point toward the truth fully revealed in Christ. Yet now that the tree is fully grown and the fruit made available to the world we need not hunt after seeds. The world offers plenty of substitutes and supplements which are meant to distract us from the truth of the gospel in the guise of adding to it. Look, the world tells us, at this exoteric path or technique, to find what is missing in your walk with Jesus. But we can build on no other foundation than the one laid in Jesus Christ (see First Corinthians 3:11).
After all, listen to what we have in Jesus:
A great crowd of his disciples and a large number of the people
from all Judea and Jerusalem
and the coastal region of Tyre and Sidon
came to hear him and to be healed of their diseases;
and even those who were tormented by unclean spirits were cured.
Everyone in the crowd sought to touch him
because power came forth from him and healed them all.
There is no one else like this One. No one else can heal us at any level that we need healing. Only he can heal us in the depths of our souls where we need him so badly. Only his triumph over death can triumph over the death we all carry in our souls.
You were buried with him in baptism,
in which you were also raised with him
through faith in the power of God,
who raised him from the dead.
So when people try to seduce us with empty philosophy let us remember, even if they seem clever, that we have and know all we need in knowing Jesus Christ. Rather than wandering from his gaze and risk becoming lost we should draw near to him. We should allow ourselves to be gathered by him.
When day came, he called his disciples to himself
Let us hear the call. Let us come to him and be nourished and healed by the One to whom all true signs point.
The LORD is gracious and merciful,
slow to anger and of great kindness.
The LORD is good to all
and compassionate toward all his works.
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