tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736427810720155529.post8757188703836753462..comments2023-08-09T07:48:53.962-04:00Comments on Bear Witness to the Light: Mary Has Chosen The Better Part, And It Will Not Be Taken From Her.Fr. John L. Sullivanhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16167510362871783781noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4736427810720155529.post-61149342047668610572010-10-05T04:21:49.654-04:002010-10-05T04:21:49.654-04:00'a zealot for my ancestral traditions.'
P...'a zealot for my ancestral traditions.'<br /><br />Perhaps God chose Paul because he loved and understood the importance of the ancestral traditions better than anyone else. His encounter with Jesus might have led Paul to see Him as the incarnation of everything Paul cared about so passionately: the Sabbaths ('I will give you rest'), Jubilees (freeing slaves, cancelling debts), Passovers and other feasts, the living word of the Law.<br /><br />The New Covenant, extended to the gentiles, is sometimes compared to a marriage. Our Lord, when He spoke of marriage, describes it starting with a man who 'leaves his father and mother'. This describes Paul: he leaves his ancestors, but also takes every tradition with him. He is a teacher of the law, 'who bringeth forth out of his treasure new things and old'. <br /><br />With ecumenism and multiculturalism, our own 'ancestral traditions' are constantly questioned. I hope we have the clear insight of Paul and the loving instinct of Mary in today's reading to realize that in everything we do:<br /><br />'There is need of only one thing.'<br /><br />(It's only one thing, but it has to be there!)Sarah in the tenthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13680566205364331756noreply@blogger.com