Wednesday of the Twenty-Ninth Week in Ordinary Time, Year II. Eph.3:2-12; Is.12; Luke 12:39-48
As a mass server back in the day, one picture I could never understand was that of priests insulting people from the pulpit, or knocking and slapping catechists and mass servers as though they were there to serve the priests. Jesus says the master will come at an hour we do not expect. We should spend the precious time we have getting prepared; not beating up and maltreating those God has placed with us because we feel we’re more privileged. When a man has had a great deal given him, even more will be expected of him.
Friends, service is never about the self. God wants us to genuinely serve others. That’s what St Paul tells us to do, having been given the grace to understand the mystery that pagans now share in the same inheritance as the Jews. We must understand that in Christ Jesus, the priest isn’t ‘higher’ than the people, but lower; the bishop isn’t ‘higher’ than the priest, but lower; the Pope isn’t ‘higher’ than the Bishop, but lower. This is why Pope St. John Paul II always referred to himself as the servant of the servants of God. The higher we go, the higher our service to others should be. If we continue to abuse the power God has given us, we shall receive strokes too numerous to be counted.
Good morning dear. God bless your day ahead.
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