What profundity graces the second of a two week read of Jeremiah. This 22nd week continues a review of God’s love for the chosen people as well as affirms the church as the people of God –the followers and body of God’s self in Christ Jesus. Also continued this week, the Jeremiah / Jesus parallels focus a context for each of the second readings. Perhaps a quote from Leo the Great from this week’s Saturday second reading summarizes this entire week: “The earth that is promised to the meek and which will be given to the gentle for their possession is none other than the bodies of the saints. Through the merit of their humility their bodies will be transformed by a joyous resurrection and clothed in the glory of immortality.” In this quote the week’s Jeremiah / Jesus parallel(s), the humility theme, the physical suffering, the restoration and renewal of the physical (place and body), each and all, depict incarnation of the covenant’s realization –in the case of the saints, its triumph!
Posted on: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 07:16:52 +0000
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