33rd Week in Ordinary Time (B) : Saturday, 23rd November 2024

The two olive trees and lampstands in the Book of Revelation represent resilient peace and light. Some scholars would refer to them as St Peter and St Paul, in any case, it is sufficient for us to realise that faith and witness are tested through time. They withstood the test of persecution and inferior relationship. It will be helpful for us to ponder how our relationship, through time, is finally aimed toward peace and light.

To the mind of the Scribes and Pharisees of Jesus’ time, there was plenty of homework to do to find a litany of excuses to refute the Resurrection. The more logic they found with dire cynicism against the Resurrection, the easier it was for them to stroll down the slippery road to total disbelief, a cul-de-sac. Nothing was worth believing anymore. That would be a paralysing point for them to even turn and gaze upon God. They came to their own disbelief, a dead end. For us, our God is a living God. He brings us to the light of Resurrection.

As children of light, we are unashamed and transparent to the possibility of life everlasting, while those who disbelieve choose eternally in the dark tombs of damnation. Furthermore, we, as temples of the Holy spirit (1 Cor 3:16), are already a prefiguration of an angelic life. Our moral and spiritual life, every sphere of our lives must be unitive according to the animation of the Holy Spirit.

Lord, in You we live and move and have our being, may we never put this unity asunder.