The Eighth Sunday of the Year Is 49:14-15; 1 Cor 4:1-5; Mt 6:24-34 (year a)
‘Does a woman forget her baby at the breast, or fail to cherish the son of her womb? Yet even if these forget, I shall never forget you.”
The prophet Isaiah described the relationship between God and his people in terms of unparalleled tenderness. He was responding to that sense of abandonment and isolation that so easily overwhelms the vulnerability of our human condition. For those addressed by the prophet Isaiah, that sense of isolation was the consequence of violent upheaval.
