Fourteenth Sunday of the Year
Is 66:10-14; Gal 6:14-18; Lk 10:1-12 & 17-20 (Year C)
"Rejoice for Jerusalem. Rejoice for her, all you who mourned her. For thus says the Lord: like a son comforted by his mother will I comfort you, and by Jerusalem you will be comforted. At the sight your heart will rejoice, and your bones flourish like the grass.”
The words of the Prophet Isaiah struggled to express the tenderness and compassion of God’s unfolding love. A history of infidelity, violence and destruction had left Israel abandoned and unloved. Oppressed people throughout the world continue to suffer the same abandonment. The darkness of depression and a sense of worthlessness haunts the many victims of our outwardly affluent society. To these, and to everyone unloved in our broken world, the Good News remains the same. In Christ we are held, healed and sustained in a tenderness beyond our imagining. It is here, in the words of Isaiah, that we are carried and fondled as a mother’s child.
