Reflections on Sunday’s Mass: June 20, 2010

This is the 12th Sunday in Ordinary Time.

Our readings this weekend:

• Zechariah 12:10-11, 13:1. Do we recognize the spirit that is poured out over us? Without a spirit purified by grace, death and sin are final, the “one who is pierced” is nothing more than a cause for mourning.
• Galatians 3:26-29. Paul implies that our baptism in Christ purifies us of all false divisions, and he challenges us to a profound understanding of one-ness in Christ. This one-ness is at the heart of why we claim friendship and kinship with a community on the other side of many borders—because Christ constantly challenges us to recognize and celebrate and act upon the truth of our shared identity as the Beloved.
• Luke 9:8-24. “Who do you say that I am?” This is a crossroads question for Jesus’ disciples, and for us. Who do we say that Jesus is? Do we say Jesus is the Christ? The Anointed One, whose presence and life and teaching are the mark against which we measure everything: all our desires and hopes and needs, all the realities of one another’s lives? If we say Jesus is the Christ, is he the measure of our relationships, of our response to the poverty and suffering around us? Is our One-ness in Christ so compelling that it changes everything?

This Sunday we celebrate Mission Sunday . We will focus on our own Honduras Mission.