18 Sep 2024
Mission and Ambition
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For 18 September 2024, Wednesday of week 24 in Ordinary Time, based on Luke 7:31-35
Jesus said to the crowds, ‘To what then will I compare the people of this generation, and what are they like? They are like children sitting in the market-place and calling to one another,
“We played the flute for you, and you did not dance;
we wailed, and you did not weep.”
For John the Baptist has come eating no bread and drinking no wine, and you say, “He has a demon”; the Son of Man has come eating and drinking, and you say, “Look, a glutton and a drunkard, a friend of tax-collectors and sinners!” Nevertheless, wisdom is vindicated by all her children.’
Scripture passage from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright 1989, 1993, Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.
18 September 2024 @ 10:29 pm
Thanks Elyse, for your words of wisdom and hope.
18 September 2024 @ 11:34 pm
Thanks, Elyse, for framing the Gospel passage in the dilemma of our times. Prayers that we can respond to our call to mission in all that it demands of us.
19 September 2024 @ 12:20 am
Thank you. So supportive as I start this day.
19 September 2024 @ 1:51 am
Ooo. Good! Thanks Elyse!
19 September 2024 @ 2:31 am
“Let ‘this generation’ be rejoicing, not in an inversion of a power pyramid but in rather an order that has a new authority, whose shape—is that of a cross and an empty tomb.”
This is what Mission is! Thank you for the hope of new life that responds, not to our ambitions, but to what is truly needed—from us.
23 September 2024 @ 9:02 am
Mission vs Ambition. A clarifying thought. Thank you and so great to hear your voice.