What is
it to be glorious? I ask, because I don’t think we use that word
a lot. Words we use to say that
something’s very good tend to suffer deflation over their history and new words
need to be coined. Something can be
awesome without actually causing anyone much awe anymore, or brilliant without
really make much of anything shine, or amazing without anyone being all that
amazed. But, glorious, that word seems to have kept a mystique, a value all of
its own. Our gospel tells us that at the
end of time, the Son of Man will come in his glory, that he will be glorious,
but we kind of have to hunt through the text to find what glory really means.
Sunday, November 26, 2017
Sunday, November 12, 2017
God gives us the oil to light up the world – Matt 25:1-13, Wis 6:12-16
32nd Sunday in OT, Year C; Holy Infant.
Ever
have the experience of looking for something that’s right under your nose? Like
going searching for your glasses when you’re wearing them (which I guess would
make them on your nose, not under it, but the point stands). Or, my personal
favorite, the time recently when I noticed that my trouser pocket seemed a
little light, reached down to check what was in it, thought “Oh no! Where are
my car keys,” then realized… I was driving. Well, both our first reading and
our gospel are about that kind of possibility, only not with glasses and keys,
but with Wisdom, and Wisdom incarnate, Christ at his coming.
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