Jesus had just performed the multiplication
of the loaves and the fish. Even with
this great miracle, the disciples still hadn’t fully figured out what was going
on or what their great teacher was trying to teach them. Afterwards, he performs another miracle: walking
on the water toward the disciples in the boat and calming the storm. Still, there remains a lot of
misunderstandings and fear in their minds.
They think that they had just seen a ghost. They just can’t understand
what is going on. It defies their
expectations and common sense.
God leads us down different roads in life. Sometimes,
he leads us to some very unexpected places. We take in our reality and where we see God
speaking to us, and then, hopefully, we feel called to action, to act upon the
will of God in our lives. We have a very interesting saint today from
Barcelona, Spain in the 12th century - St Raymond of Pennafort. He was very devoted to the Blessed Mother as
a child and a youth, where his tender heart touched all those he knew. He became a famous teacher, but left that to
join the Dominicans, and then later help found an order that helped the poor
Christians of his day who had been captured by the Moors. Raymond is most well known today for having
codified and rearranged Canon Law for Pope Gregory IX, a system that largely
stayed in place for about 700 years, until the new codification of Canon Law in
1917. So, St Raymond is deservedly known
as the patron saint of all lawyers, and specifically Canon Lawyers. Raymond lived to be 100.
When God calls out to us sometimes, we might
be afraid, and we might feel like we are being tossed about the rough waters of
a turbulent sea. But fear not – the Lord is at our side. He is not a ghost. He is real.
And he asks us to do his will.
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