Thursday 26 September 2024
Ss Cosmas and Damian
Ecclesiastes 1:2-11. In every age, O Lord, you have been our refuge – Psalm 89(90):3-6, 12-14, 17. Luke 9:7-9.
The Resurrection stirs us to wonder and to hope
The teacher in Ecclesiastes is enthralling and poetic but unrelentingly world weary. This is the voice of the ageing realist who has seen it all many, many times before. The cynic convinced that nothing is new and all will be forgotten. On a bad day it can feel that way. In the Gospel is Herod, a man who has definitely noticed something or, rather, someone new and ‘perplexing’. Notwithstanding Herod’s likely bad intentions, given what happened to John the Baptist, his curiosity concerning Jesus is piqued. John prepared, baptised and led the way to Jesus. Now this Jesus is getting a name for himself: disrupting the status quo and ruffling political feathers as he preaches and heals in the communities he visits. Jesus revealed the possibility of a way of radical love and inclusion. His message and actions continue to challenge us, shaking us out of complacency and cynicism. And as his death shames and saddens us, his Resurrection stirs us to wonder, to remember and to hope.
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