2023-Sep-24: The 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time
2023-Sep-24: The 25th Sunday in Ordinary Time Isaiah 55:6-9 Isaiah 55:1-9, part of Deutero or Second Isaiah aka Book of Comfort, comprises most of the final hymn of the exilic portion of Isaiah, which invites exiles living outside of Judah in the sixth century B.C., at the dawn of Persian rule, to uproot themselves, move to a land their generation never knew, and reclaim their ancestral home. Despite the allowance of Cyrus and the Persian Empire for them to return, it was not a prosperous time. The city had not been rebuilt since its destruction by the Babylonians fifty years earlier, social and economic structures were weak, and there were struggles for the most desirable land between the returnees and those who had been in the land in the meantime. For me: the affirmation that God’s thoughts are not human thoughts, nor are human ways God’s ways Psalms 145:2-3, 8-9, 17-18 Psalm 145, is called an individual hymn of praise that tells the story of the Israelites...