Thursday of the Thirteenth Week in Ordinary Time
“God put Abraham to the test….”
Every now and then I hear an expression that usually sets my mind on alert: “Trust me!” I heard it when I was boy from my father who knew what he was doing, and I was to trust him! This is what we have today in our first reading. We recall it implicitly in the first Eucharistic Prayer when we call Abraham, “our father in faith.”
As we become more and more acquainted with the Sacred Scriptures, we learn to pray from the simple lines they reveal. In today’s ancient story lies the simple lines of how God, then and now, beckons us: “’I swear by myself, declares the Lord, that because you acted as you did in not withholding from me your beloved son, I will bless you abundantly ….”
Daily we are invited to know our God as the Faithful One! God is the backdrop of all the events of our lives as we grasp to understand them, whether they happen within us or to us from the outside.
As we offer the Holy Eucharist, the living memorial of Christ’s offering, we are reminded of St. Paul’s words: “Is it possible that he who did not spare his own Son but handed him over for the sake of us all will not grant us all things besides?” (Rom 8:32)
Reflection by Fr. Xavier Nacke, OSB
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