Tomorrow
night, the winners of this year’s Academy Awards will be announced. But, before
the ceremony officially begins, we’ll have the pre-ceremony, the red carpet
walk. Person after person, especially the celebrities who are women, but
increasingly the men too, will be asked: “Who are you wearing?” Not what, but
who. The radio station I normally listen on my drive into work each morning was
inspired by this, this past week, to ask the same question of people who workin their office, and received such answers as, “I’m wearing H and M” or,
“tonight, I’m wearing TargĂ©(t).” For the record, my alb’s by Patti Schlarb and stole and chasuble by Slabbink. But, the deeper answer, the answer that
St. Paul told the Christians in Corinth, is that we are wearing Adam, and we
will wear Christ.
Sunday, February 24, 2019
Jesus dresses us – 1 Cor 15:45-49
Seventh Sunday of OT, Year C; Holy Infant parish, Mass with baptism.
Sunday, February 17, 2019
God makes the hungry full –Luke 6:17-26, Jer 17:5-8
6th Sunday of OT, Year C; Holy Infant parish.
The
beatitudes are wonderful to hear, aren’t they? The woes… not so much. We like
hearing about the last becoming first, but it’s not so nice to hear about the
first becoming last, especially when we take honest stock of where we stand in
the line. Blessed are the poor, great. Woe to the rich, a little more troubling,
especially when we consider that thinking globally, if we can turn on our taps
and have something drinkable come out, we’re rich. Now, it should be noted that
Jesus doesn’t talk about any kind of punishment for being rich, but there’s
still this idea that the rich have already got what they’re going to get. And we
want more.
Sunday, February 10, 2019
Jesus calls us – Luke 5:1-11
5th Sunday of OT, Year C; Holy Infant Parish.
Do you
wonder why, at the start of this reading, Peter isn’t listening to Jesus? There’s
a whole crowd pressing in to listen to him speak, speak the word of God, but
Peter is sitting a ways off, having gotten out of his fishing boat and he’s sitting
there tending to his nets. It probably isn’t that Peter doesn’t know who Jesus
is. The way Luke tells it, Jesus had healed Peter’s mother-in-law the day
before, and when Jesus talks to him, Peter does seem to know him. It seems that
Peter genuinely believes himself to be too busy to put down his nets and listen
to Jesus.