Meditation for Saturday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time
The prophet Zacharia gave his message
after the Babylonian exile during the rebuilding of the temple. This new temple
would stand for the new blessings to come. His prophetic visions encouraged the
Jews to gather around the temple. In our opening reading today, Zacharia saw a
vision of a man going forward to measure Jerusalem, but another Angel said to
the young man, “Jerusalem shall be inhabited as villages without walls, because
of the multitude of men and cattle in it.” The Lord declared that He would
encircle Jerusalem like a wall of fire and fill her with glory. “Sing and
rejoice, O daughter Zion; for behold, I come and I will dwell in the midst of
you, says the Lord.” Then, many nations will gather up to be God’s peoples, and
the Lord shall dwell in the midst of them.
This ‘Jerusalem’ that is filled
by the glory of God and to which all nations gather to, can it be measured? To
measure means to determine its limits and extent of its outreach. But the ‘vastness’
of God cannot be measured, and so also is the ‘City’ walled by God and filled
with His glory. This is how we are built up in Christ Jesus through His Cross
and Resurrection with unmeasured graces and blessings. Such ‘vastness of the
glory of God’ in Christ Jesus is not ‘simplistic’, easy or by mere wish.
So, when people began to acclaim
the greatness everything Jesus did, He said to them, “For the Son of man is to
be delivered into the hands of men.” From this opposing effort to ‘limit’ His
power and kill Him that the unmeasured graces of the resurrection rise. Let us continue
to gather up to Jesus, for in Him is the fullness of divinity, and we shall enjoy
boundless glory and unmeasured favours. Amen.
St Ceolfrid, pray for us. Amen.
Fr Jude Chinwenwa Nwachukwu,
C.Ss.R
Saints
Peter & Paul Catholic Church,
Tedi-Muwo,
Ojo, Lagos.
Saturday
September 25th, 2021.
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