We have now left the Easter season and we are back to the liturgical color of green for ordinary time. In our first reading today, we hear from the second letter of Peter, which encourages us to believe the ancient Christian expectation that Jesus would soon come again and set the world in order, establishing a new heaven and new earth. Other voices had been telling the early Christians that this wasn’t going to happen, that they were deluded and misled. Perhaps we Christians in the modern world do not think much about the second coming, but in the Creed that we profess each Sunday at Mass, we state that we believe that Jesus “will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead and his kingdom will have no end.”
We say these things in our profession of faith, but do we pay attention to the words and their meaning? In our faith, we believe that Christ will return and transform our world and beyond to the cosmos, with all of creation made new. Until that day when Christ comes again in glory, we are called to live out the values of God’s kingdom here on earth.
There is a lot going on in the world today. A pandemic is taking many lives, more than 100,000 dead in the US alone. Our economy is being threatened and a lot of people have their economic livelihood threatened. Protests are sweeping the nation. A lot of people are in pain, anger, and confusion about a lot of things. There does not seem to be a lot of dialogue and coming together.
How do we make sense of God’s kingdom in this reality? What are we called to do? What do we think? I don’t think there are a lot of clear cut answers right now. Let us pray for wisdom, courage and strength right now, for all of us and especially our leaders.
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