Homily
for Tuesday
Week
2 of Advent
Dec.
10, 2024
Is
40: 1-11
Matt
18: 12-14
Christian
Brothers, St. Joseph’s Residence, N.R.
“The word of our God stands forever” (Is
40: 8)
Shepherd & a lost sheep
(James Tissot)
God’s word is a word of deliverance. The 2d main part of Isaiah, ch. 40-55,
rejoices in the good news (40:9) that the power of God is about to save Israel
from her captivity in Babylon—“her service is at an end, her guilt is expiated”
(40:2). God will lead her thru the
desert wasteland and rough country back to Zion (40:3-4,9), to the holy land. God shepherds his people (40:11).
Jesus also shepherds his people, finding
those who’ve strayed—which we all do in one way or another—and delivering us
from the dangers and rough paths on which we walk toward Zion, the heavenly
Jerusalem that will be our eternal home:
nobis donet vitam in patria.
He is the incarnate Word of our God, and he stands forever with us.
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