Fall in Love - A Few Words on the 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time

The Scriptures for this weekend are most interesting and not so easy to unpack. In fact, given the fact that our women's retreat is just hours away, I was not even going to give it a go. **Calling all women: If you are anywhere near Clifton Park and want to join us at noon at St. Edward the Confessor, please come on over!**

Then I read this from Fr. Richard Rohr.

My words here will be brief. We get very tied into doctrinal matters and dogma. It is such a top down church. I'm not complaining, per se. I am wondering out loud.

This week we can see the the 7 brothers in the Maccabees reading have been seduced by God. They believe - deeply and truly - in new life. Their faith - their fidelity, is so strong because of what they love, what they believe. All of which is a response to the God who created and loved them first.

In the second reading, St. Paul exhorts us to faith - which is pretty much what he did so tirelessly. He is in essence reminding us to keep responding to the love that calls to us.

The Gospel from Luke says it all... The Sadducees are stuck in a doctrine that can't hold up. No resurrection they say, no new life. That pretty much ends the conversation with Jesus, who came to give us this new life. Perhaps they were so concerned about doing it right that they forgot the part about falling in love.

Make no mistake, we need to do both, but love and relationship are the cornerstones.  Otherwise, why would the law matter? Let alone new life?

That's it, that's all I've got for you today. Not so much but may we all be reminded to be taken in by this God who calls to each and every one of us with a love more powerful than we can imagine and life that never ends.