In today's weekly reflection on the Sunday Scriptures (3rd Sunday in Ordinary Time,) Mary M McGlone, a Sister of St. Joseph of Carondelet, writes in the National Catholic Reporter:
It's easy to go to Mass, to sing with a great choir and eat donuts with people afterward. There's no danger in that. But is that all that we are invited to as disciples?
There's a T-shirt recently promoted that displays the words, "When injustice becomes law, resistance becomes duty." Advocating for peace, the recognition of the dignity of each person, for food and health care for everyone — within and beyond our borders — is not politics, it is Christianity in action. Supporting efforts toward peace belongs to our mission — even when it is neither comforting or safe.
Paul intended his message to the Christian community at Corinth to be, at the very least, a wake-up call. He had heard rumors about behavior unbecoming of disciples — rivalry, scorn of the poor, partisanship and much more. He minced no words in denouncing such conduct, reminding them that they were capable of much more: of being the body of Christ in their world.
Are we, too, capable of much more than we might imagine? What are our times calling forth from us?
Read Sr McGlone's full reflection here in the National Catholic Reporter.
