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“HONEY FROM THE ROCK”

Friday, 30^th September 2016,

Twenty Sixth Week of Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Jerome, Priest and Doctor of the Church

Job 38: 1, 12-21, 40:3-5;

Ps 139: 1-3, 7-10, 13-14;

Lk 10: 13-16

THE WORD OF GOD

It has become a fashion to question about the existence of God. Citing the sufferings and presence of evil in the world, the modern man hardly considers it worth, to search or come in contact with God. So according to the modern, self-made man, since one cannot reconcile between a loving God and the existence of whole scale evil in the society, it is best to reject the idea of God or at least ignore him. The book of Job is an attempt to answer some of the questions about the co-existence of a good God and the evil in the world. Job, an innocent and devout man suffers under the heavy fist of the evil one. His friends conclude that it is because of his sin. However, Job knew that he was upright, and that’s why he dares to question God himself! In today’s reading God answers Job! Though God’s answers are framed in the form of questions, still Job is happy with the answers. Job just wanted to be sure about the reason of his sufferings. If God willed that he should suffer, he was ready and willing.

Today we celebrate the memorial of St Jerome, who is known as the ‘Father of Biblical Science’ for it was he who translated the Hebrew Old Testament and Greek New Testament to what we know as the Latin Vulgate. He rightly said: “The ignorance of the scriptures is the ignorance of Christ.” While in the Church we greatly venerate the sacred Scriptures, the Christian faith is not a ‘religion of the book’: Christianity is the ‘religion of the Word of God’, not of ‘a written and mute Word, but of the incarnate and living Word’. God speaks to us as he spoke to Job through the person of Jesus. Is Christ, the ‘living Word’ for you and me?

Prayer: Lord, lead me to Your Word through Your words. Amen.