Friday, October 25, 2-24

Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time

(Ephesians 4:1-6; Luke 12:54-59)

We live in an age of expressive individualism.  It is not that everyone wants to be different, but many want to choose their group of identity.  Within that group each person wants to shine as superior or unique.  This is hardly the unity to which today’s first reading calls Christians.

The Letter to the Ephesians exhorts Christians to take to heart the body to which Baptism has made them members.  They are to love other members of this body and to practice its underlying principles and precepts.  In these ways the body will attract other members, bringing about greater unity in the world.

These are two competing spirits – expressive individualism and Christian unity.  We must choose between them.  It is not that those who opt for Christian unity lose their individuality but that they see one another as friends not rivals.

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