Being a Christian can be viewed as a foolish endeavour by many. What do today’s readings have to say.? Fr Dean reflects on today’s readings from Mass.
Readings for Thursday of week 22 of Ordinary Time be found here
In 1914, when Henry Ford doubled workers’ pay to five dollars a day and cut work hours, Wall Street experts and his own business partners called it financial suicide. However, he proved them wrong. Workers became fiercely loyal, productivity skyrocketed, and those same workers could now afford to buy the cars they built. There are many examples in history and in our own lives when was was denounced by some as a foolish decision turned out to be the opposite.
An outsider may think that the decision of those fishermen to leave behind their livelihood, homes and families as a rather foolish decision. Indeed, there will be moments in the years to come when they will be filled with doubt. However, they become an instrumental part in Jesus’ ministry and in the leadership and growth of the church after Pentecost.
St Paul says, ‘Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you thinks that he is wise in this age, let him become a fool that he may become wise. For the wisdom of this world is folly with God.’ Following Jesus may seem foolish to many people. Why waste our time and energy? God’s designs for us and the world often conflict with the world’s own ideas and perspective. It seems from today’s readings that’s it’s ok to be a little foolish at times. Indeed, even Jesus was viewed by some of his family as being out of his mind. So, let’s not measure our faith and life by the standards of the world but only by the designs of God, for ‘we are Christ’s, and Christ is God’s’
Mass today is in St Dyfrig and St Samson at 10am.
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