CẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG LC- CHA BRENDAN - 3RD SUNDAY ADVENT-A
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Mo NguyenDec 14 at 12:17 PM
THIRD SUNDAY OF ADVENT / A - 15 DECEMBER 2019
REFLECTIONS ON THE GOSPEL
THE KINGDOM OF GOD: ALREADY,
BUT NOT YET
THE KINGDOM OF GOD: ALREADY, BUT NOT YET (Mt 11: 2-12)
In response to the question put to him by John the Baptist’s disciples. Jesus points to a great variety of miraculous deeds that he has performed. From this they – and John – should be able to conclude that he was the long-awaited Messiah, performing the deeds that Isaiah foretold.
We may well think that this was all very good for the few thousands of afflicted people who accessed Jesus’ healing power during his lifetime. But where does that leave the vast mass of the afflicted down the centuries to our own day?
Some kind of answer may live in the ‘already – not yet’ aspect of the Kingdom of God proclaimed by Jesus. It has dawned in his first coming but is by no means fully arrived. That must await his second coming. We proclaim this in our Creed, expressing the hope that God’s sovereignty in the universe with one day be complete.
In the meantime, the miracles remain a ‘beachhead’ of the kingdom to give us hope. They teach us to see the afflicted not as punished by God (an all too prevalent error) but as people particularly apt to receive and become instruments of God’s power.
The same goes for the poor: the Good News that is ‘preached to them is of a piece with the first Beatitude proclaimed by Jesus at the beginning of his great Sermon (Matthew 5-7). The poor are ‘blessed’’ not precisely in their poverty, but because God has adopted their cause and one day will see that is prevails.
Brendan Byrne, SJ
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