Saturday of the Fifteenth Week in Ordinary Time
Every day during this week, the 1st Reading at Mass has been dedicated to Moses’ biography, from the background of the times to when he was a baby rescued from the Nile, as an Egyptian court teenager and adult, conscious of his Hebrew background and his Egyptian culture.
Then, he became a murderer, a refugee, a husband, a business man and one who dialogued with God in a burning bush. Finally, there is the Exodus, his leading the Israelites out of Egypt toward the Promised Land.
What is so captivating about this account is God’s using Moses, the instrument, to achieve his plan, which was finally accomplished in Christ, redemption and salvation, and it is being realized to this very day, a plan which was far beyond anything that Moses could have imagined.
Resolve: I shall spend some prayerful time today reviewing my own background to see how bumps turned into blessings causing me to wonder, despite Thomas Aquinas’ predictable disagreement, if God does not have a sense of humor.