Author: Other Voices

Like a nurturing parent, today’s readings invite us to encounter a Jesus who spiritually loans us his divinely mature soul, his faith, his self-lessness, and his vision of God’s reign, so that we can change our much less plastic hearts and change our patterns of living, spiritually evolving from instantiated even lethargic observers of faith into committed disciples forged in the image of Christ missioned to be agents of change.

We do not pray that we be delivered from the natural emotions that punctuate our living fully, but that we might employ them to spur us into gospel living and develop holy anxiety for the good things.

Many of us don’t have deep resources, and have our own version of a few loaves and fishes, but on this coalescing, if not collision, of festivals and feasts, we too are commissioned to sacrifice, to struggle, to endure so that, no matter how modestly, we too can multiple, nourish, and liberate for those children of God that are so desperate for such care.