3 Nov 2016
(School Mass)
If I were to ask you to find me a pencil or a pen, you’d
probably look in your backpack or in your desk.
Maybe you have one in your pocket.
If I were to ask you to find me a pencil or a pen, you’d know right
where to look.
Now, if I were to ask you look for Jesus, you’d probably look
where? In the Eucharist, yes. In a statue or a painting, ok. In the Bible, yes. And those are all places we expect Jesus to
be, and he is there.
But Jesus is also in places we don’t expect him to be. You know, when he walked the earth, he was
always hanging around people that nobody else liked. Scripture calls those people “sinners and tax
collectors,” but also “widows, orphans, and the stranger.” A lot of times we’ll find Jesus with those
sorts of people.
That’s actually the reason why we can be sinners and still
happy—because if we weren’t sinners, we wouldn’t need Jesus. But we are sinners; we can always be more
loving and more forgiving, more generous and more accepting of others. We are sinners and, because of it, we know
right where to look for Jesus—we only have to look right into our own hearts.
And so, if I were to ask you look for Jesus, remember to look
for him wherever people are hurting or in pain; remember to look for him when
you’re feeling bad or sorry. Wherever
there are sinners, you’ll find Jesus. A
lot of the time, we just have to look inside ourselves to find Jesus—and there
he is, just waiting for us to let him be a friend to yet another sinner.
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