Friday in the Octave of Easter
Jesus is the Cornerstone.
Jesus is the stone rejected by the builders. Peter applies this commonly quoted passage from Psalm 118 to Jesus, and the meaning is clear. As with masons who reject a large ill-formed stone for building the wall of the building and yet find it perfectly suited for the more essential role of keystone for the arch or cornerstone for the building, so Jesus was rejected by his people but was chosen by the Master Builder, God, to become the most important element in the building: the stone all the others depend upon.
What Peter said about Jesus can be applied to our own life of faith. What to us seems useless and of no value–in our world, in our work, in ourselves–becomes, in God’s hands, the heart and soul of a new creation. The new and the essential of today is fashioned out of yesterday’s refuse.
The message is to bring forth all those problems and problematic people who seem least valuable and most awkward. Raise them up to God, who alone knows how to fit them into his master plan for the salvation of the entire world. Quit trying to fit everything and everyone into your plan and let God draw them through the transforming power of His Son to give them their proper place in His plan of salvation.
He also knows where all the fish are.
Reflection by Abbot Benedict Neenan, OSB
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