Fr. Anthony Keane. In today’s Gospel from Luke chapter 6, dearest Brothers and Sisters, we see Our Loving Lord trying to teach us the ineffable way of Life in a series of sketches and brush strokes with a speed and vitality which matches the urgency of the task.
For Christ is the Wisdom of creation, Logos and Sophia, quicker to move than any motion, pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty, mirror of God’s active power and image of His goodness. She is unchanging, she renews the world, and, generation after generation, passing into holy souls, makes them into God’s friends and prophets.
The time is indeed short: let us not waste it then with misery and servility. For we are stars. Let us then allow that divinity within us shine out with that joy we were made with at the beginning of our creation. By God’s grace let us allow the joy of our God-given, elementary, lapidary existence shine. By God’s grace we are stars. It is of us that the prophet Baruch speaks: God sends the light and it goes, He recalls it and trembling it obeys, the stars shine joyfully at their posts; when He calls them they answer ‘Here we are’; they shine to delight their Creator.