Saturday of week 1 in Ordinary Time
Hebrews 4:12-16 | Psalm 18(19):8-10,15 | Mark 2:13-17
No created thing can hide from him; everything is uncovered and open to the eyes of the one to whom we must give account of ourselves.
Hebrews 4:13
I was at the funeral of Fr. John Bosco Pereira’s father yesterday, and listened to his daughter and granddaughters eulogize him. As with most eulogies, he was verbally painted as a caring, strict, and God-fearing father, as well as a doting and generous grandfather.
It would be unusual for a dead person to be slammed at his own funeral, but if there were truly dark aspects to his life, there’s the potential for this knowledge to leak out through subtle phrasings…or even outright omissions of expected revelations.
And all this would be laid bare for everyone to see.
Humans have been hiding from God since Adam and Eve.
Some lessons, it seems, are almost impossible to hand down the generations. Even cold reason dictates that a Supreme Being, with the power to cause life in all its remarkable complexity and variety to come into being, also has the power to inspect it all.
In brightest day, in blackest night,
God, channeling Hal Jordan
No evil shall escape my sight
Let those who cleave to evil’s blight,
Beware my power…my Holy Light!
God sees, brothers and sisters. It’s past time for us to accept that, and live our lives in acknowledgement of this. Time to clean up our act, and live and love in accordance with His will. Time to acknowledge our flaws, and cleanse ourselves regularly with the Sacrament of Reconciliation. Time to spend more time with Him, pondering both the word that is holy scripture and the Word that is Jesus the Christ.
Time to do all this, while we still have time.
Lord, remind us to live in Your light always. Amen.