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ACTS 15:1-2, 22-29
REVELATION 21:10-14, 22-23
JOHN 14:23-29
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In Hebrew, the word “peace” - “shalom” - is much more than the absence
of things that disturbs us. Rather, peace is linked to the concept of
wholeness, of being “at one” with God and with our neighbors and
ourselves. Jesus was and is one who builds a new world, a new heaven
and a new earth rather than simply trying to fix the old one. In Jesus,
we have one who is able to bring about what he has promised, one who is
able to bring to pass a new world. We know this for two reasons: the
first being, what was promised in the past has been performed by him;
the prophecies that were made have come true. The second reason being
that we are witnesses to how he brings to pass new, transformed people,
people who have moved from blindness to sight, from despair to hope,
from sickness to health, from hatred of self to love of all, from death
to life. Jesus is more than a destination that provides us direction or
a vision that provides us hope. In Jesus we have a presence that
comforts us and helps us to know peace and to share it. In Jesus we
have a presence that reminds us that the Word of God is effective and
that it accomplishes what it sets out to do, and that what it does, is
work towards wholeness.
Jesus does not give peace as the world gives; what he gives is eternal,
what he gives cannot and will not fail. He gives us peace with God
through his love, his life, death and resurrection, and he gives us a
new world through his sharing with us the eternal plan of God.
The words of Jesus, in today’s gospel, concerning his peace are not
easy words. His peace is not always a peace to receive but also to
give. It is a peace that lasts, a peace that triumphs, a peace that
heals and that is not something that the world can give us. It can only
come to us from God.
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Finally,
we pray
for one another, for those who have asked our prayers and for those who
need our prayers the most.
Have a
good day!
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