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19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Jn 6/41:51 |
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| Background: We continue today with the mystical and theological dialogue which began last Sunday, a conversation which is both Eucharistic and philosophical. It is Eucharistic in that it was written down after decades of reflection on what the Eucharist means and philosophical because it addresses the hunger of the human heart for everything, for perfect love, for perfect peace, for perfect satisfaction, for, in fact, eternal life. To limit this intense exchange and Jesus’s implacable insistence that he is the secret of eternal life to a mere incident in his public life is to miss the richness and the power and the wisdom of the incident. Jesus is claiming that he and the God he reveals are the answer to all the longings of the human heart. |
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Story: Once upon a time two married lovers were celebrating their silver anniversary. There had been much conflict between them in recent years. The fire had gone out of their love, not because of major difficulties but because of lack of time and minor misunderstandings. Time had slipped by too quickly. There were so many demands: children, professional obligations, sick parents, new homes to furnish and improve, schools to choose, family weddings. Why did I ever get into this relationship in the first place, they both wondered? Why am I in it now? Why should I stay in it? What is the point? On the silver anniversary day, they were not speaking to one another. Their children, however, had prepared a big exhibit of enlarged pictures of the wedding day and an edited video of both their mother and father had said at the wedding banquet and of the homily from the nuptial Mass. Both parents wept tears of regret and joy. It had not been a perfect marriage, but it was a lot better than most other marriages and it would have been better still if they had tried just a little bit harder. They resolved that they would begin again. And while they didn’t live in perfect happiness ever happier, their love did get a lot better. |
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