The 31st Sunday of the Year
Wis 11:22-12:2; 2 Thess 1:11-2:2; Lk 19:1-10 (Year C)
"In your sight, Lord, the whole world is like a grain of dust that tips the scales, like a drop of morning dew falling to the ground. Yet you spare all things because all things are yours, Lord, lover of life, you whose imperishable spirit is in all.”
Wisdom’s prayerful meditation struggles to reconcile, within the same Godhead, a transcendence beyond every creature, and yet, at the same time, an unmerited tenderness towards every sinner. The Creator, so far beyond us, is revealed as the one “whose imperishable spirit” dwells within us. We can never penetrate the mystery of God, but in prayer we can rest in him whose imperishable Spirit has chosen to dwell within us.
