As I read and reflected over today’s first reading, my first reaction was: this could be in an epic movie scene! It doesn't end harshly but rather with a gentle and simply-powerful message.
"You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you” – and here it comes: “Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.”
Then in today’s gospel, the people are told that they’ve been given signs from God to help them. But what’s inferred is that we need to absorb the meaning of God’s signs and Word into our souls so that we live for God.
As I pondered, those last words from the prophet Micah, I had my own sign … those words: “You have been told, O man, what is good, and what the Lord requires of you. Only to do the right and to love goodness, and to walk humbly with your God.” Those were the words on the funeral prayer card of our beloved pastor of Sacred Heart in North Quincy, MA, Father Neil Heery, a priest who lived his life by those words and inspired countless others to follow them.
Now, it’s our turn, to hear the Word of God and to respond by doing the right, loving goodness and walking humbly with our God beginning at home and then to all we meet.
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