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THE WORD BECAME FLESH

Monday in third week of Advent, 2021

Numb 24:2-7,15-17a

Ps 25

Matt 21:23-27

St. Lucy

 

At the end of today’s first reading we have one of the great prophecies of the coming ruler in Israel, God’s anointed one or Messiah, ‘a star from Jacob takes the leadership, a sceptre arises from Israel’. A sceptre is an ornamental staff carried by rulers on ceremonial occasions as a symbol of their sovereignty or royal authority. Jesus displayed royal authority but not in the way kings at the time normally did so. 

 

In the gospel reading, Jesus was asked by the religious leaders, ‘What authority have you for acting like this? And who gave you this authority?’ He had just driven out all who were selling and buying in the temple, overturning the tables of the money changers and the seats of those who sold doves. We know the answer to those questions Jesus was asked. He acted on the authority of God his Father. He was in the Temple, God’s house, and as God’s Son he had authority there. He used his authority to show by this symbolic action that the Temple was not being run as God would have wanted. He was using his authority to do God’s will on earth, to put right what was wrong, to bring God’s kingdom to earth. That is how the risen Lord uses his authority today. He is always at work in our world to bring God’s kingdom to earth, a kingdom of justice, love and peace. He wants to work through all of us, his disciples, today. He shares his authority with us, in virtue of our baptism, so that, in the power of the Spirit, we can put right what is wrong, bringing life where there is death, light where there is darkness, truth where there is falsehood, and justice where it is denied.

 

Let us pray: Father, purify my heart so that my only priority will be to live totally for Jesus. Amen

+Remain blessed

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