24th Sunday in Ordinary Time / C - 12/09/2010
Luke 15, 1-32 (p. 560) This
24th Sunday in Ordinary Time on Sunday is really God's mercy while we are celebrating this most merciful especially on Sunday in the octave of Easter. All readings are approaching this reality so important in the revelation that God makes of himself throughout the history of salvation. Rather than commenting on the famous parable of the prodigal son, I would like to meditate with you and for you all readings. Not in detail but in showing the wonderful harmony that exists between these texts along with the evolution of biblical revelation.
The two texts of the Old Testament, our first reading and Psalm 50, we show a God ready to forgive. Even if, against the sin of idolatry of the people, the golden calf, God gets angry and decides initially to exterminate the people. The people he no longer calls his people but the people of Moses ... And thanks to the prayer of Moses that "the Lord renounced the evil he had wanted to do for his people . Note how the passage of the biblical author recalls that this people is not only one of Moses but God's people, despite his infidelity. This presents us with divine wrath matter of course. And rightfully so, since we learn the catechism that anger is part of the seven deadly sins. It's a step in the revelation step which translates easily on God human categories. Which also existed in Greek mythology for example. This anger simply means how much our God infidelity leaves no one indifferent. And it is a great mystery for us to see. This God perfectly happy in himself is somehow affected by our sin, wounded by our ingratitude. Psalm 50 confesses about his great love and mercy of the Lord. This heart of God who gets angry, who is injured, is primarily a loving heart. It's a way incomprehensible to human reason alone that God loves each of its creator human creatures in a unique way.
The two texts of the New Testament (St. Paul and St. Luke) actually accomplish what has already been revealed to the people of Israel about what God who loves and forgives. This achievement could take place with the mystery of the incarnation, with the visible presence among us of the words and wisdom of God in this man named Jesus of Nazareth. The apostle Paul has a keen awareness of being one of the first recipients of the mercy shown by Jesus toward sinners, revelation of the loving heart of God. In St. Paul, the persecutor became the only apostle by Christ's grace, we find, I think he, both the son of the parable. Before being captured by the Risen Christ on the road to Damascus, Saul looks Strangely the eldest son of the parable. He is a Pharisee, a strict observer of the Act, even zealous fanatic, and he can make his own the words of the eldest son: 'There are so many years that I am at your service without ever having disobeyed your orders, and you never gave me a goat to celebrate with my friends. But when this son of yours came after spending your good with girls, you killed the fatted calf for him! " The Pharisee Saul who put his pride in his fidelity to God's law should see a very dim view of those Christians, members of a small Jewish sect, who claimed God gives his free hello to everyone. It would be jealous and angry, and his religious fanaticism spurred him to pursue them and persecute them with hatred. Saul knew by heart the law of God, he applied scrupulously. But he knew the God he claimed to serve so well? Had he not rather shut on itself because of this sense of religious pride, superiority over others, those who do not know? In fact it was not the Christians who were ignorant but him! Christ has forgiven me: what I did was out of ignorance, because I had no faith ; The grace of our Lord was even stronger, with faith and love in Christ Jesus. When Paul experienced the power of divine grace, strength of the mercy of God's heart, encountering the living Christ, he became another son of the parable. For the first time in his life he felt weak, sinful, guilty, who absolutely need to return to God the Father through Jesus the Savior. In her anger and jealousy of his son's chosen people have been transformed into an immense gratitude to God who justifies sinners. Now needed absolute certainty in his mind: Jesus Christ came into the world to save sinners, myself included, I am a sinner, but if Jesus Christ has forgiven me is that I am the first in which all his generosity manifests itself, I had to be first example of those who believe in him for eternal life. The three parables of God's mercy we teach this shocking reality: every time we make a step towards God, we give her a heart broken and crushed, whenever we agree to recognize in ourselves the prodigal son, we joy God and angels! Because we allow it to be for us what is the deepest of himself: A God of Love, seized with pity in our view, a merciful God, a God who share in our quest to save us!
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