Each of us needs to come before the Lord and be present to God. In a conversation, sometimes we begin by talking and sometimes by listening, depending on who called for it. It is up to us to sit and listen to what God has in store for us. What is he calling us to? What encounters will he send us into, to send others toward his love, for us and for whomever we are encountering? How will God guide us this day?
Like Peter and Paul, we need to keep him close, by our side, we need to listen, we need to pay attention, and we need participate in the unfolding in his love. Peter and Paul did so and we celebrate them for their deaths and for the generations after them, who showed us the way to resurrection and new life, showed us that our lives in Christ Jesus are not empty, but are as full as they possibly can be.
Paul’s libation vessel has a hole in the bottom. If we stay open to the Lord and accept his grace, we then become a channel through which that grace can be shared with others. We will be poured out like a libation. God will continue to pour, so long as we have life in us, so that the world might be flooded with the power of his love.
--Fr. Patrick Michaels,
Homily, June 29, 2024
Image source: Pietro Lorenzetti, Christ between Saints Paul and Peter (c.1320), https://diocesan.com/peter-paul-pillars-church/
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