Monday 10 February 2025
St Scholastica
Genesis 1:1-19. May the Lord be glad in his works – Psalm 103(104):1-2, 5-6, 10, 12, 24, 35. Mark 6:53-56.
God’s creative energy
Fortunately, in the Catholic Church, we had scholars who understood fairly easily that the writers of Genesis used the power of suggestive language rather than the power of literal science to convey immortal truths.
Today’s readings, taken together, demonstrate that God’s creative energy continues. When Jesus goes among the people and they, by touching him, are healed, we see the creative urge of God blossoming anew in changed lives.
In our time, the James Webb telescope spies nebulae in the process of forming new galaxies, a process of millions of years. An infinite God is interested in an infinitely unfolding universe. And there are only two possibilities: either the universe created itself, or it was created. Since we cannot step outside the beginning, both statements are acts of faith, but only one offers the glorious possibility of Divine love, and only one provides us with the Divine hope given by Jesus’ love.
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