Monday, March 15, 2010

8th day of creation!

Homily
Tuesday of the 4th Week of Lent
16 March 2010

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It is obvious that the Church has turned the corner in its Lenten journey - just look at today's scripture readings given us! They feel very much like Easter. The prophecy of Ezekiel describes the flowing of water from the temple that remakes everything it touches, taking away any unfruitfulness and restoring life wherever it goes. Of course the Church understands this water that flows from the temple to be not only the water that flows through fidelity to the covenant given to Moses, but water that most perfectly flows from the new temple that is Christ's body. In the preface for the Mass of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, it is remembered that from the side of Christ flowed blood and water, the fountain of sacramental life of the Church. The grace that flows from the temple of Christ's body not only restores creation to its original beauty, a beauty lost by disobedience, but moves creation from outside of God to the heart of God's trinitarian life. The fruitfulness we see in Ezekiel is the result not only from adherence to divine law, but is a fruitfulness that flows from Jesus' fulfillment of the vocation to love that goes beyond what is required by the law.

Jesus by going beyond the law, without neglecting a single letter of it, shows Himself to be the author of the ultimate law of God, to love one another as God has first loved us. He heals the man in today's Gospel with grace, not needing the natural waters of healing in the pool of Bethesda, nor needing to wait until after the Sabbath, for Jesus understood that the sabbath was made for man, not man for the sabbath, and that the sabbath was above all a day for celebrating the life that is a gift from God! He heals the man, and previews the grace that would flow from his resurrection. Easter Sunday which we prepare to celebrate through our sincere prayer, fasting and almsgiving, is that 8th day of creation, by which the world is remade not only from the outside in, but from the inside out through the graced blood and water that flows from the temple of Christ's body!

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