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From the Desk of Deacon Terry
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June 18, 202112th Sunday in Ordinary Time
My Brothers and Sisters in Christ: “Why are you terrified? Do you not yet have faith?”
Jesus’s question to the disciples in the boat seem a bit harsh. Of course they respond with terror when a “violent squall” threatens to sink the small boat they are using to traverse the Sea of Galilee! Jesus’s ability to sleep through their travail no doubt astonished and maybe even angered his friend’s who ask him (perhaps reproachfully), “Teacher, do you not care that we are perishing?”
At this moment in the Gospel, the disciples do not yet understand that the one who travels alongside them is the boat is actually the God of creation who has become “flesh” and “Made his dwelling among them”
They have known him as Jesus the healer and Jesus the teacher, but now they are introduced to one whom “even wind and sea obey.” Only after journeying with Jesus along the road to Jerusalem, encountering him as the resurrected Lord, and receiving the Holy Spirt at Pentecost will the disciples begin to have the faith necessary to leave all fear behind and to dwell in the peach of Christ, “that surpasses all understanding.”
God Bless your heart!!
Dc. Terry