October 20: Monday of Week 29 of Ordinary Time, Year A-II:
Ephesians 2:1-10; Psalm 100:1-2, 3, 4, 5; Luke 12:13-21
What is Jesus saying to us as stewards of his kingship?
(To support Reaching Jesus: 5 Steps to a Fuller Life... Step Five).
Redeemed, Raised, Seated
“He made us, we are his” (Psalm 100:3).
Fear minus fright equals perspective. “Fear of the Lord” (a gift of the Holy Spirit) is not being scared of God, but having a keen sense of perspective: how big he is, small we are; wise he is, foolish we are; good he is, sinful we are; kind he is, selfish we are. This kind of fear is the “beginning of wisdom” (Psalm 111:10; compare Proverbs 9:10).
“Wisdom” (another gift of the Holy Spirit) is the gift of “seeing everything in the light of our last end” that gives us a “taste for spiritual things” (sapientia, wisdom, is from sapor, savor).
The readings urge the perspective of our past, present and future. We were redeemed by Baptism, our sins annihilated. We live now as the risen body of Jesus, to let Christ live and do “good works through us, which God prepared beforehand to be our way of life.” Already, in God’s time, he has “seated us with him in the heavens.” The reward of victory is ours. But if we “store up treasure for ourselves but are not rich in what matters to God,” the Gospel says, “You fool, this night your life may be demanded of you; and the things you have prepared, to whom will they belong?”
“Blessed is that wise steward whom his master finds at work when he arrives.”
PRAY AND PRACTICE the WIT prayer: “Lord, do this with me, in me, through me.”
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