In today’s first reading,
2 Cor 3: 15-4: 1, 3-6, we read:
“…[W]henever Moses is read, a veil lies over the hearts of the children
of Israel, but whenever a person turns to the Lord the veil is removed. ” How true it is that “a veil lies over” our
hearts until we “turn to the Lord.” When
Jesus died on the cross, “the veil was torn in two,” (Lk 23:45) and we now are able to “see the light of the
Gospel of the glory of
Christ, who is the image of God.”
Our faces are unveiled
and we are enabled to gaze upon the glory of God when we follow Jesus’
challenges and invitations in today’s Gospel, namely, when we refrain from abusive
language, when we leave our gift on the altar and go first to be reconciled
with our brother and sister and then return to give praise to our God, to
receive the Body and Blood of Jesus. Our
eyes are opened whenever we turn to the Lord and bare our souls to Him, as did the woman
caught in adultery, the blind man on the side of the road, the lepers calling
out for pity, the hemorrhaging woman who touched the hem of Jesus’ garment, the
man by the pool of Siloam, the man born deaf, the woman who encounters Jesus at
the well, and so many others.
How am I preparing myself
to encounter the Lord and know the freedom that only God can give? Do I even
realize that I need to be transformed by the Lord who is Spirit? How often do I
sit at Jesus’ feet to experience what it means to gaze upon the face of God and
be changed in the process into the image of Christ in today’s world. In fact, I
might ask myself today: whose image am I, whose image do I reflect upon the
world in which I live? Does the “glory
of Christ, who is the image of God”
shine through my actions?
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