Luke Guimond offers the reflection at the Saturday evening and Sunday morning Masses this weekend. In his reflection on the readings for the Seventh Sunday in Ordinary Time, Luke shares:
“Much like the tumult of politics today, the future and leadership of ancient Israel were up in the air. Deborah Wilhelm, a professor at the Aquinas Institute of Theology, compares us to Abishai: we want action; we want to, as she says, send an angry tweet or text, to lash out. It would be so simple, but it would be wrong. It would be ungenerous. As challenging as that may be, Christ calls on us to be even more generous. The passage from Luke confronts our very comfort; it disquiets us. It is not an easy passage. It is radical even. Christ encourages us to give; to give to those who need and not to expect something in return.”
