Title: Meditation: Wednesday, December 26, 2001
The Catholic Calendar for Wednesday, December 26, 2001
The Christmas Season
St. Stephen
Scripture from today's Liturgy of the Word:
Acts 6:8-10
Psalm 31:3-4,6-8,17,21
Matthew 10:17-22
Full text: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/index.htm
A Reflection on Today's Scripture:
The Incarnation of the Divine Word into human flesh is an awesome
event, designed to change the direction of history. Today's feast is
a most telling illustration of this fact. Falling, as it does,
immediately after the Feast of the Incarnation itself, it dramatizes
how dangerously this child would challenge the status quo. With
razor-sharp logic, His presence would terminate one Covenant, and
initiate another. As always, change threatens all who rest too
comfortably with Divine Mysteries. The very guardians of those
mysteries rejected the Son of God and all who would follow Him.
Stephen, one of the first deacons ordained by the Apostles of Jesus,
stirred up a hornets' nest, brought on his own martyrdom, and sent
the Hellenists scattering like leaves. Truth is often like that. Am I
ready to take the consequences of my baptism into the Church founded
by this Divine Reformer? Is my love strong enough for His Love?" We
must trust, we must pray, that our faith be not shaken, but confirmed
in the Power of Jesus' Spirit.
Msgr. Paul Whitmore ([EMAIL PROTECTED])
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