St Nicholas

A Reflection From Fr Ron

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This Weeks Readings:

Malachi 3.1-4 - Ps Song of Zechariah Philippians 1.1-11 - Luke 3.1-6

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Luke 3: 1-6 “Hope is always born again”

The wilderness is a place of emptiness. The word of God came to John in the wilderness and told him to level the mountains and hills. In Baruch’s time the wilderness was their exile in Babylon. But God was there too.

Our troubled, war-torn world often wears a garb of sorrow and distress. Greed and power created the wilderness of Babylon. We humans are the ones who build the mountains and create divisions and barriers. Sadly, we do it to one another. And we do it to God, to stop God coming in.

All looks hopeless, but it isn’t. Hope is always born again in the stable of Bethlehem. Jesus came, and in his great moment of helplessness before he died gave us the Eucharist.

The call of these readings is a call of God asking us to help level the hills and valleys that confront so many in life.

 

Blessings, Fr Ron.