CẢM NGHIỆM SỐNG LC - CHRISTOPHER
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Mo Nguyen
TWENTY- SECOND SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME – YEAR B
29th August 2021
BE OPEN TO CHANGE
BREAKING OPEN THE WORD
BE OPEN TO CHANGE
(Mark 7: 1-8, 14-15, 21-13)
Often there is tension in our lives as we struggle to determine how to be faithful to the past and yet open to the demands of the present and the call of the future. Can what is good and true change and take on new forms? In the area of technology, the matter is often clearer than in the life of faith.
Confronted with Moses’ demand that nothing of the law be changed or deleted what options did the Pharisees have for change? Deletion of any of Moses’ regulations was tantamount to rejection of God’s own word. They dealt with the demands of the present by a rigorous faithfulness to the traditions which they had received. From their perspective who was Jesus to challenge these traditions? What Jesus characterised as hypocrisy they saw as faithfulness to the demands of the living God. The problem was that of discerning that the living God was speaking anew through Jesus who stood before them. Faithfulness to what God has spoken absents none of us from the demand of listening to what God is speaking to us today: the challenge lies in recognising it and responding with generosity.
The letter of James also addresses this challenge by reminding us that while God’s truth is unchanging, we are called to listen to the word which has been planted in our hearts. It is a word which is dynamic and growing – a word whose clearest demand is to reach out in love to those who cannot defend themselves.
CHRISTOPHER MONAGHAN CP
WE ARE CALLED | Himig Heswita:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ITJYbi6b0e8
Biến đổi đời con _ Ca sĩ Gia Ân:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmXCcLpIOC8