MEMORIAL OF ST. JOSAPHAT, BISHOP & MARTYR - 2021

DAILY HOLY MASS READINGS

Stand erect, hold your heads high,
because your liberation is near at hand. LK 21:28

WISDOM 13:1-9 ©

My Soul's Beloved,

The Book of Wisdom as for its Author the Holy Spirit of God. It would do all to understand that the Creator of all that is beautiful in created things is to be worshipped and He alone, not His creation. The Author of Beauty is far, far more beautiful than anything that He has created. All who worship creation, or the elements of nature, or any created thing, but has not taken to the trouble to look for the One that created all things is judged by God Himself to be stupid. All created things bear the imprint of their Creator but they are not the Creator Himself.

If, charmed by their beauty, they have taken things for gods,

let them know how much the Lord of these excels them,
since the very Author of beauty has created them.
And if they have been impressed by their power and energy,
let them deduce from these how much mightier is he that has formed them,
since through the grandeur and beauty of the creatures
we may, by analogy, contemplate their Author.

Ignorance is no excuse for those who, in their search for God get so caught up in His creation they go astray. Their fascination with the works of the Creator impedes their progression in discovering the Creator. They fall prey to appearances, to things that wax and wane, decay and die. 

In the closing verse for our reflection today, the Author of Wisdom has this to say:

Even so, they are not to be excused:
if they are capable of acquiring enough knowledge
to be able to investigate the world,
how have they been so slow to find its Master?