The Fourteenth Sunday of the Year
Is 66:10-14; Gal 6:14-18; Lk 10:1-12 (Year C)
The result of the recent referendum has come as a surprise to many. It is a turning point for all as we embark on an uncertain future.
The prophet Isaiah, speaking to a broken people, faced uncertainty with confidence. “Rejoice, Jerusalem, be glad for her, all you who mourned her. Now towards her I send peace, flowing peace like a river, and like a stream in spate.”
The prophet’s confidence found its strength in God Himself rather than in Jerusalem’s past history and violent division. Where sin had alienated and divided, grace would gather as a mother gathers a child to her breast.
