READINGS COMMENTARY XXIV SUNDAY IN ORDINARY TIME. CYCLE C 1 st Reading: Exodus 32, 7-11. 13-14
In those days the Lord said to Moses: "Go down the hill, it has perverted your people, whom you brought out of Egypt. Soon they have deviated from the way I had given them. There have been a bull of metal, prostrate themselves before him, offered sacrifices and proclaim: "This is your God, Israel, who brought you out of Egypt." And the Lord Moses said: "I see this village is a stiff-necked people. So let me, my anger will turn against them to consume. And I will make you a great nation. "
Moses besought the LORD his God:" Why, Lord, it will turn your anger against your people, whom you brought out of Egypt with great power and strong hand? Remember your servants Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, who swore by yourself, saying: "I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken I will give to your descendants shall possess it forever . And the Lord repented of the threat had spoken against his people.
Psalm 50: I'll get on the road where my Father.
2 nd Reading: 1 Timothy, 12-17
Dear Brother: I thank Christ Jesus our Lord, who enabled me, he trusted me and told me this ministry. That I was once a blasphemer and a persecutor and insolent. But God had mercy on me, because I was not a believer and did not know what he did. The Lord lavished His grace in me, giving me the faith and love in Christ Jesus. You can trust and accept without reservation what I say, that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners, and I am chief. And so he took pity on me, so that in me first, Jesus Christ showed his patience, and could be a model for all who believe in him have eternal life. The King eternal, immortal, invisible, the only God, honor and glory for ever and ever. Amen.
Gospel: Luke 15, 1-32
At that time, used to come to Jesus and sinners to hear him. And the Pharisees and scribes murmured among themselves: 'This man receives sinners and eats with them. "
Jesus told this parable:" Suppose one of you has a hundred sheep and loses it, do not leave the ninety and nine in the field and go after the, until he finds it? And, when found, the burden on the shoulders, very happy, and when they came home, meet friends and neighbors to tell them: "Rejoice with me, I have found my sheep which was lost" I tell so there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents than over ninety-nine righteous persons who do not need to convert. And if a woman has ten coins and loses it, does not light a lamp and sweep the house and search carefully until he finds it? And when he finds it, brings together friends and neighbors to say: "Rejoice with me, I found the coin that I had lost." I tell you, there is joy among the angels of God over one sinner who repents. "
also told them:" A man had two sons: the younger one said to his father: "Father, give me the part I turn of fortune. " The father divided the property. Not many days later, the younger son gathered all his own, moved to a distant country and there squandered his fortune in loose living. When he had spent all that land came a terrible famine, and began him to be in need. It was then, and both insisted to an inhabitant of that country that sent him into his fields to keep pigs. I felt like filling the stomach with the pods that the swine ate, and no one gave him food. Looking back then, said: "How many hired servants of my father's have bread, while here I am starving. I'll get on the road where my father and say: Father, I have sinned against heaven and against you and do not deserve to be called thy son: make me as one of your servants. " So he goes where he was his father when he was still far off, his father saw him and was troubled, and, starting to run, he threw around his neck and began to kiss him. His son said: "Father I have sinned against heaven and against you no longer deserve to be called your son." But the father said to his servants: "Bring then the best costume and dress, put a ring on his finger and sandals on his feet, bring the fatted calf and kill it, we celebrate a feast, because this my son was dead and is alive he was lost and is found. " And they began the banquet. His eldest son was in the field. When he was coming back home, he heard music and dancing, and calling one of the servants and asked what happened. He replied: "Your brother has come, and your father has killed the fatted calf, because he has regained good health." He was indignant and refused to come, but his father came out and tried to persuade him. And he answered his father: "Look, in as many years as I serve you, no never disobey your command, I never have given me a kid to have a feast with my friends, and when your son has been that it has eaten your property with bad women, you kill the fatted calf. " The father said "Son, you are always with me, and all I have is yours: you should rejoice, because this brother of yours was dead and is alive again he was lost and is found."
GOD WANTED YOU, YOU ARE AND YOU SAVE
Today the Church gives us in the Liturgy Word of the proclamation of Chapter 15 of Luke, the great chapter of Mercy, with those three wonderful parables of the lost sheep, lost coin and lost son. Sheep, coin and son, found as a result of the search, the suffering and patience of the pastor, owner and father, respectively.
stayed in the three parables reflected each of us and is reflected tenderly wonderful and merciful heart of the Father. Sublime disclosure of personal and infinite love of God that I sought, found and saved.
is impossible to address in a few lines the three parables. I focus on of the lost sheep and remember, first, an anecdote that happened to me when, in my first year as a priest, he served as pastor of four small villages, where there were many shepherds with their flocks. Traveling from one town to another, I used to see and greet, stopping to chat a moment with them, if time permitted. He once went quite quickly and suddenly, I find the more than two hundred sheep uncle Miguel crossing the road, forcing me to stop the vehicle and to exercise patience and resignation. Behind the pastor, all the sheep, across the narrow road in search of new pastures. All crossed, unless one, which was engaged in a bush and bleat incessantly. Michael and he was away and not heard. I started playing the horn to warn of the incident. Immediately, Miguel left the herd and ran to the sheep in danger. Just as in the parable of the Gospel. Went to her and freed her, hurt her right out of the bush, but the lamb was left meekly save, until he could run away to join the others.
Our religion is completely original. Christianity is not so much the search for God by man, but the revelation of a God seeker each of us.
The problem we do not want to be sheep of Christ, and we realize that not wanting to be sheep of the Good Shepherd end up being "sheep"; ie, unconditional and uncritical supporters of ideologies, fashions, prejudices, human respect, etc. . The problem is that we are deceived into thinking that we will be free without being part of the flock of the Church. And so, we become lost sheep and prodigal son, however much they deny it.
God and never stops looking for us. And we find, unless we do not let us find and save. He respects our freedom (parable of the prodigal son) and his quest and salvation is always a tender - invitation - to us.
And there is another essential aspect of the disclosure of Mercy joy. The joy of meeting, a joy that is given in the same God ("there will be more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents") and unspeakable joy of the son and rescued the sheep found, as St. Paul was found by God, despite his past life, and will reflect with joy on the second reading today complete joy ... with God. Only the experience when the Lord is.
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